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Looking at the works of the Bront‰ sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Bront‰s as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.

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Introduction; Shouhua Qi and Jacqueline Padgett 1. No Simple Love: The Literary Fortunes of the Bront‰ Sisters in the Post-Mao, Market-Driven China; Shouhua Qi 2. Rhys´s Haunted Minds: Race, Slavery, the Gothic, and Rewriting Jane Eyre in the Caribbean; Suzanne Roszak 3. On the Migration of Texts: Emily Bront‰´s Wuthering Heights , Maryse Condé´s La Migration des coeurs , and Richard Philcox´s Translation of Condé´s Windward Heights ; Jacqueline Padgett 4. The Melodrama of the Hacienda: Luis Bu¤uel´s Abismos de Pasión as Postcolonial Trans/Plantation; Kevin Jack Hagopian 5. The Undying Light: Yoshida, Bataille and the Ambivalent Spectrality of Bront‰´s Wuthering Heights ; Saviour Catania 6. Michael Berkeley and David Malouf´s Rewriting of Jane Eyre : An Operatic and Literary Palimpsest; Jean-Philippe Heberlé

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"The essays collected in The Bront‰ Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds present a series of highly original insights that open up our understanding of the Bront‰s in a transnational and transcultural context. The authors successfully breach the boundaries of established Bront‰ criticism through their discussion of the sisters´ translation/reception/adaptation into such disparate locations as China, Mexico, Japan, and the Caribbean, as well as into opera and non-English-language film. This book provides an excellent set of new directions for future Bront‰ scholarship." - Richard Nemesvari, Professor of English and Dean of Arts, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

"The Bront‰ Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds explores the enduring popularity of the Bront‰s through a rare full-length collection focusing on the adaptation and reception of their works beyond the British and American contexts. Essays analyzing the reception of Jane Eyre in China and the Caribbean, or the adaptation of Wuthering Heights on screen in relation to Japanese Shintoism, highlight how the Bront‰s have become international cultural icons. Embracing a diverse approach, Qi and Padgett compel us to reconsider how classic texts are shaped and move within different worlds." - Hila Shachar, Lecturer in English Literature, De Montfort University, UK

"The perceptive and erudite volume The Bront‰ Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds edited by Shouhua Qi and Jacqueline Padgett redresses a longstanding imbalance in Bront‰ studies, as a detailed examination of the critical and creative reception of the Bront‰s outside European and North American contexts has been long overdue. An important read not only for Bront‰ scholars but also for those exploring matters of cultural translation and the intricacies of the global reception of classics more generally." - Márta Minier, Lecturer in Drama, University of South Wales, UK

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Saviour Catania, University of Malta Kevin Jack Hagopian, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jean-Philippe Heberlé, Université de Lorraine, France Suzanne Roszak, Yale University, USA

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