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Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western World

Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from

the Non-Western World, 1/e
Arthur Biddle, University of Vermont
Published December, 1994 by Prentice Hall Humanities/Social Science
Copyright 1995, 1056 pp.
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ISBN 0-13-299793-2

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This exciting anthology of fiction, poetry, and drama provides students with a window into
the cultures and literatures of the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, sub-Saharan
Africa, South Asia, and East Asia. The selections for the six parts of the book were
assembled by a team of six regional experts under the general editorship of Arthur W.
Biddle. The regional editors have also provided introductions, headnotes, and footnotes,
apparatus that is designed to give students the information they need without overwhelming
them.

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189 varied and interesting short stories, poems, and plays from the Caribbean, Latin
America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, many by recent Nobel Prize winners.
a focus on postcolonial writingwith most pieces written since 1960that reveals the
cultural, social, and political concerns of today's emerging and newly independent nations.
editorial apparatus that provides students with the information they need to read and
appreciate selections without overwhelming them:
an introduction for each part that describes the history, cultures, and literary
traditions of the region.
a bibliography for each part that lists further readings by authors represented in the
anthology.
headnotes that provide biographical information on authors and introduce individual
selections.
footnotes that gloss cultural references and foreign terms within the selections.
regional experts who edited each part, to avoid the oversimplifications that can result from
imposing a single editorial viewpoint on the world's diverse cultures and literatures.
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easy-to-use organization that arranges countries alphabetically within their regions and
arranges authors chronologically within their countries.
alternative thematic table of contents that suggests connections among selections in
different parts of the book.
seven maps that orient students to each of the regions and to the globe as a whole.

I. THE CARIBBEAN.
Antigua.
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl.
Barbados.
George Lamming, A Wedding in Spring. Paule Marshall, To Da-Duh, in
Memoriam. Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Red Rising; Xango.
Dominica.
Jean Rhys, The Day They Burned the Book s.
Guadaloupe.
Simone Schwarz-Bart, from The Bridge of Beyond.
Guyana.
Grace Nichols, Wherever I Hang; Tropical Death.
Jamaica.
Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire. Lorna
Goodison, The Mulatta and the Minotaur; Lullaby for Jean Rhys; Nanny; For
My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength).
Martinique.
Aim Csaire, from Return to My Native Land. Joseph Zobel, The Gift.
St. Lucia.
Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes; The Swamp; The Castaway.
Trinidad.
V.S. Naipaul, from The Mystic Masseur. Earl Lovelace, from The Dragon Can't
Dance.

II. LATIN AMERICA.

Argentina.
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Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins. Julio Cortzar, Continuity of Parks.
Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors.
Brazil.
Joo Guimares Rosa, The Third Bank of the River. Clarice Lispector, The
Crime of the Mathematics Professor. Haraldo de Campos, Two Concrete
Poems.
Chile.
Pablo Neruda, Heights of Macchu Picchu. Nicanor Parra, Litany of the Little
Bourgeois; Mummies; Test; I Take Back Everything I've Said.
Colombia.
Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon.
Cuba.
Nicols Guilln, Ballad of the Two Grandfathers; The Grandfather. Alejo
Carpentier, Lik e the Night. Jos Lezama Lima from Paradiso. Reinaldo
Arenas, The Wounded.
Guatemala.
Miguel Angel Asturias, Angel Face.
Mexico.
Octavio Paz, San Ildefonso Nocturne. Juan Rulfo, Tell Them Not to Kill Me!
Carlos Fuentes, The Doll Queen.
Peru.
Mario Vargas Llosa from The War at the End of the World.
Puerto Rico.
Rosario Ferr, The Youngest Doll.
III. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.
Angola.
Agostinho Neto, Night; Kinaxixi; African Poetry; Western Civilizations.
Botswana.
Bessie Head, The Collector of Treasures.
Ghana.
Ama Ata Aidoo, Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral.
Kenya.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Minutes of Glory.

Malawi.
Jack Mapanje, Messages; On His Royal Blindness Paramount Chief
Kwangala; When This Carnival Finally Closes.
Nigeria.
Gabriel Okara, Piano and Drums; You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed;
Once upon a Time. Chinua Achebe, The Madman. Wole Soyink a, The Strong
Breed.
Senegal.
Leopold Sedar Senghor, Black Woman; Totem; New York ; You Held the
Black Face for Khalam; Be Not Amazed; In What Tempestuous Night; Prayer
to Mask s; Senegal; Visit; Luxembourg 1939. Sembene Ousmane, Tribal
Scars or The Voltaique.
South Africa.
Nadine Gordimer, Comrades. Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele, Death of a Son.
Uganda.
Okot p' Bitek, My Husband's Tongue Is Bitter; What Is Africa to Me?
IV. THE MIDDLE EAST.
Algeria.
Assia Djebar, There Is No Exile.
Egypt.
Naguib Mahfouz, Zaabalawi. Nawal Saadawi, She Has No Place in Paradise.
Iran.
Sadeq Hedayat, The Stray Dog. Forugh Farrokhzad, Window; Friday.
Iraq.
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Rain Song; Song in August.
Israel.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, At the Outset of the Day. Emile Habibi, The Gypsy.
Dahlia Rabikovich, The Dress; The Sound of Birds at Noon; Pride; From Day
to Night; Distant Land.
Kuwait.
Suad al-Mubarak al-Sabah, A New Definition of the Third World; A Thousand
Times More Beautiful; A Covenant; Sojourn Forever; Free Harbour; You
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Alone.
Lebanon.
Layla Baalbaki, A Spaceship of Tenderness to the Moon. Emily Nasrallah,
Our Daily Bread.
Palestine.
Ghassan Kanafani, Death of Bed Number 12.
Sudan.
Tayeb Salih, The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid.
Turkey.
Nazim Hikmet Ran, On Living; The Strangest Creature on Earth; Some
Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison; Awak ening; Evening Walk .
V. SOUTH ASIA.
India.
G. Shankara Kurup, The Master Carpenter. Indira Sant, Her Dream;
Household Fires. M. Gopalak rishna Adiga, Do Something, Brother. Vinda
Karandik ar, Traitor; The Knot. Amrita Pritam, Process of Creation; The
Weed. Nissim Ezek iel, Minority Poem; In India. Mahasweta Devi, BreastGiver. Kunwar Narayan, Preparations of War; Archaeological Find. A.K.
Ramanujan, Love Poem for a Wife 1; Small-scale Reflections on a Great
House. Shrik ant Verma, Process of Change; Half-an- Hour's Argument.
Kedarnath Singh, On Reading a Love Poem. Dhoomil, The City, Evening, and
an Old Man: Me. P. Lank esh, Bread. Naiyer Masud, The Color of
Nothingness. Anita Desai, The Farewell Party. C.S. Lak shmi, A Rat and a
Sparrow. Gagan Gill, A Desire in Her Bangles.
Nepal.
Shankar Lamichhane, The Half-Closed Eyes of the Buddha and the Slowly
Setting Sun.
Pakistan.
Zamiruddin Ahmad, PurvaiThe Easterly Wind. Enver Sajjad, The Bird.
Khalida Asghar, The Wagon.
Sri Lanka.
Yasmine Gooneratne, Menik a.
VI. EAST ASIA.
China.
Cheng Naishan, Why Parents Worry. Bei Dao, 13 Happiness Street; Notes on
the City of the Sun; Answer; All. Shu Ting, Also All; Assembly Line. Gu
Cheng, Capital 'I'; Parting; A Headstrong Boy.
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Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Yu Kwang-Chung, If There's a War Rages Afar; The Kowloon-Canton Railway.
Pai Hsien-yung, Glory's by Blossom Bridge. Yang Mu, Six Songs to the Tune
'Partridge Sk ies'; From 'Nine Arguments'; Loneliness. Lo Ch'ing, Six Ways of
Eating a Watermelon; Protest Posters; Don't Read This.
Japan.
Kawabata Yasunari, Up in the Tree; Immortality; The Cereus. Enchi Fumik o,
Boxcar of Chrysanthemums. Inoue Yasushi, The Boy; River Light; The
Beginning of Autumn; Elegy; Old Man in a Turban. Kanek o Tota, [Above the
crumbled brick s]; [On the hill, a withered farm]; [Lik e something totally];
[Ephemerae swarming]; [At many street corners]; [Factory dismissing the
work ers]; [A white human figure]; [After a heated argument]; [Lik e an arm
outstretched]; [Lik e squids]. Mishima Yuk io, Yoroboshi: The Blind Young
Man. Tanik awa Shuntaro, The Sanctity of Trivial Things; Obsession with an
Apple; A Personal Opinion about Gray; Impossible Approach to a Glass.
Hayashi Marik o, Wine.
Korea.
Hwang Sunwon, Cranes; Mask s. pak Mogwol, An Empty Glass; Burial;
Footprints; A Trip to Yongin; Winter Living. Kim Namjo, Love Song; Gift;
Winter Christ. Hwang Tonggyu, Four Twilights; Port of Call; Wild Geese; Song
of Peace.

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