"A Blair Press book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The dragon can't dance / Girl / Earl Lovelace. A wedding in spring / George Lamming -- from The chosen place, the timeless people / Paule Marshall -- Red rising ; Xango / Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- The day they burned the books / Jean Rhys -- from The bridge of beyond / Simone Schwarz-Bart -- Wherever I hang ; Tropical death / Grace Nichols -- If I could write this in fire, I would write this in fire / Michelle Cliff -- The mulatta and the minotaur ; Lullaby for Jean Rhys ; Nanny ; For my mother (may I inherit half her strength) / Lorna Goodison -- from Return to my native land / Aimé Césaire -- The gift / Joseph Zobel -- Sea grapes ; The swamp ; The castaway / Derek Walcott -- from The mystic masseur / V.S. Naipaul -- from The dragon can't dance / Earl Lovelace. The youngest doll / The circular ruins / Rosario Ferré. Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- The censors / Luisa Valenzuela -- The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa -- The crime of the mathematics professor / Clarice Lispector -- Two concrete poems / Haroldo de Campos -- The heights of Macchu Picchu / Pablo Neruda -- Litany of the little bourgeois ; Mummies ; Test ; I take back everything I've said / Nicanor Parra -- Balthazar's marvelous afternoon / Gabriel García Márquez -- Ballad of the two grandfathers ; The grandfather / Nicolás Guillén -- Like the night / Alejo Carpentier -- from Paradiso / José Lezama Lima -- The wounded / Reinaldo Arenas -- Angel face / Miguel Angel Asturias -- San Ildefonso nocturne / Octavio Paz -- Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo -- The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes -- from The war of the end of the world / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The youngest doll / Rosario Ferré. What is Africa to me? / Night ; Kinaxixi ; African poetry ; Western civilizations / Okot P' Bitek. The collector of treasures / Bessie Head -- Something to talk about on the way to the funeral / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Minutes of glory / Ngugi wa Thiongʼo -- Messages ; On his royal blindness paramount Chief Kwangala ; When this carnival finally closes / Jack Mapanje -- Piano and drums ; You laughed and laughed and laughed ; Once upon a time / Gabriel Okara -- The madman / Chinua Achebe -- The strong breed / Wole Soyinka -- Black woman ; Totem ; New York ; Be not amazed ; In what tempestuous night ; Prayer to masks ; Senegal ; Visit ; Luxembourg / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Tribal scars or the voltaique / Sembene Ousmane -- Comrades / Nadine Gordimer -- Death of a son / Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele -- My husband's tongue is bitter ; What is Africa to me? / Okot P' Bitek. Evening walk / There is no exile / Nazim Hikmet Ran. Zaabalawi / Naguib Mahfouz -- She has no place in paradise / Nawal Saadawi -- The stray dog / Sadeq Hedayat -- Window ; Friday / Forugh Farrokhzad -- Rain song ; Song in August / Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab -- At the outset of the day / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- The gipsy / Emile Habibi -- The dress ; The sound of birds at noon ; Pride ; From day to night ; Distant land / Dahlia Rabikovich -- A new definition of the third world ; A thousand times more beautiful ; A covenant ; Soujourn forever ; Free harbor ; You alone / Suad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah -- A space ship of tenderness to the moon / Layla Baalbaki -- Our daily bread / Emily Nasrallah -- The death of bed number 12 / Ghassan Kanafani -- The doum tree of Wad Hamid / Tayeb Salih -- On living ; The strangest creature on earth ; Some advice to those who will serve time in prison ; Awakening ; Evening walk / Nazim Hikmet Ran. Menika / The master carpenter / Yasmine Gooneratne. Her dream ; Household fires / Indira Sant -- Do something, brother / M. Gopalakrishna Adiga -- Traitor ; The knot / Vinda Karandikar -- Process of creation ; The weed / Amrita Pritam -- Minority poem ; In India / Nissim Ezekiel -- Breast-giver / Mahasweta Devi -- Preparations of war ; Archaeological find / Kunwar Narayan -- Love poem for a wife I ; Small-scale reflections on a great house / A.K. Ramanujan -- Process of change ; Half-an-hour's argument / Shrikant Verma -- On reading a love poem / Kedarnath Singh -- The city, evening, and an old man, me / Dhoomil -- Bread / P. Lankesh -- The color of nothingness / Naiyer Masud -- The farewell party / Anita Desai -- A rat and a sparrow / C.S. Lakshmi -- A desire in her bangles / Gagan Gill -- The half-closed eyes of the Buddha and the slowly setting sun / Shankar Lamichhane -- Purvai : the easterly wind / Zamiruddin Ahmad -- The bird / Enver Sajjad -- The wagon / Khalida Asghar -- Menika / Yasmine Gooneratne. Song of peace / Why parents worry / Hwang Tonggyu. Happiness street ; Notes on the city of the sun ; Answer ; All / Bei Dao -- Also all ; Assembly line / Shu Ting -- Capital "I" ; Parting ; A headstrong boy / Gu Cheng -- If there's a war rages afar ; The Kowloon-Canton Railway / Yu Kwang-Chung -- Glory's by Blossom Bridge / Pai Hsien-Yung -- Six songs to the tune "Partridge skies" ; from Nine arguments ; Loneliness / Yang Mu -- Six ways of eating watermelons ; Protest posters ; Don't read this / Lo Chʼing -- Up in the tree ; Immortality ; The Cereus / Kawabata Yasunari -- Boxcar of chrysanthemums / Enchi Fumiko -- The boy ; River light ; The beginning of autumn ; Elegy ; Old man in a turban / Inoue Yasushi -- Above the crumbled bricks ; On the hill, a withered farm ; Like something totally ; Ephemerae swarming ; At many street corners ; Factory dismissing the workers ; A white human figure ; After a heated argument ; Like an arm overstretched ; Like squids / Kaneko Tōta -- Toroboshi : the blind young man / Mishima Yukiō -- The sanctity of trivial things ; Obsession with an apple ; A personal opinion about gray ; Impossible approach to a glass / Tanikawa Shuntarō -- Wine / Hayashi Mariko -- Cranes ; Masks / Hwang Sunwŏn -- An empty glass ; Burial ; Footprints ; A trip to Yongin ; Winter living / Pak Mogwŏl -- Love song ; Gift ; Winter Christ / Kim Namjo -- Four twilights ; Port of call ; Wild geese ; Song of peace / Hwang Tonggyu.
Summary:
Global Voices exists because we want our students to experience the literature of the major regions of the non-Western world--the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Chinua Achebe, Naguib Mahfouz, Anita Desai, and Bei Dao offer a friendly bridge between our culture and theirs. The editors believe that expanding the range of literature studied beyond the traditional American, Canadian, and European canonical writers will help students better understand an increasingly interdependent world.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.