Writing about Symbols and Myths. The Spiritual Dimension / Christopher Durang -- The Bingo Van / Dal Stivens -- Warrigal / Bessie Head -- Looking for a Rain God / Carmen Naranjo -- And We Sold the Rain / Nabil Gorgy -- Cairo Is a Small City / Ulfa Idelbi -- Seventy Years Later / Sembene Ousmane -- Her Three Days / Itabari Njeri -- Hair Piece / Alasdair Gray -- The Crank that Made the Revolution / Joseph Brodsky -- A Halt in the Desert / Chenjerai Hove -- You Will Forget / Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali -- Sunset / Yambo Ouologuem -- When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out / Garrett Hongo -- Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic / Sandra María Esteves -- Weaver / Julia Kasdorf -- Mennonites / Kōbō Abe -- Friends / Tewfik Al-Hakim -- The Donkey Market / Writing about Characterization and Setting / Coming of Age / Sabine Reichel -- Learning What Was Never Taught / Dino Buzzati -- The Falling Girl / Jerzy Kosinski -- The Miller's Tale / Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon / Hanan Al-Shaykh -- The Persian Carpet / Clarice Lispector -- A Sincere Friendship / Charles Johnson -- China / Ted Hughes -- Examination at the Womb-Door / Fadwa Tuqan -- I Found It / Maurice Kenny -- Sometimes... Injustice / Grace Caroline Bridges -- Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 / Eavan Boland -- Anorexic / Xu Gang -- Red Azalea on the Cliff / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- An Agony. As Now. / Cathy Song -- The Youngest Daughter / Octavio Paz -- The Street / Manuel Puig, Leonard Schrader -- Kiss of the Spider Woman / Writing about a Point of View / Gender / Nawal El-Saadawi -- The Mutilated Half / Evgeny Zamyatin -- The Lion / Shirley Saad -- Amina / Elena Poniatowska -- The Night Visitor / Talat Abbasi -- Facing the Light / Henri Lopes -- The Esteemed Representative / Jean-Yves Soucy -- The Red Boots / Viktoria Tokareva -- Nothing Special / Rosario Castellanos -- Chess / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The Woman Who Was / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Spliced Wire / Marta Fabiani -- The Poetess / Anna Akhmatova -- Cinque / Adrienne Rich -- Your Small Hands / Doris Kareva -- To Make One Life Visible / Muriel Rukeyser -- Myth / Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the Jewel / Writing about Language / Class / Slavenka Drakulić -- Pizza in Warsaw, Torte in Prague / Linda Hogan -- Hearing Voices / Kate Chopin - Désirée's Baby / Murray Bail -- The Drover's Wife / Catherine Lim -- Paper / Krishnan Varma -- The Grass-Eaters / Sheila Roberts -- The Weekenders / Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro -- Professor Nakashima / Ntozake Shange -- Betsey Brown / Fernando Sorrentino -- The Life of the Party / Mascha Kaléko -- Mannequins / Léon Gontran Damas -- Hiccup / Ana Castillo -- Napa, California / Yannis Ritsos - Greek Carters / Linda Hogan -- Workday / John Agard -- Listen Mr Oxford Don / Dario Fo -- We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! / Writing about Reader Expectation / The Individual and the State / William Harrison -- Roller Ball Murder / Bhisham Sahni -- We Have Arrived in Amristar / Luisa Valenzuela -- Writing with the Body / Luisa Valenzuela -- The Censors / Panos Ioannides -- Gregory / Ernesto Cardenal -- The Swede / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Cervicide / Slawomir Mrożek -- The Elephant / Jan Rabie -- Drought / P'an Jen-Mu -- A Pair of Socks with Love / Rigoberta Menchú -- The Torture and Death / Wisława Szymborska -- An Opinion on the Question of Pornography / Ngyen Chi Thien -- I Kept Silent / Diana Der Hovanessian -- Looking at the Cambodian News Photos / Etheridge Knight -- Hard Rock Returns to Prision from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Eleni Fourtouni -- Child's Memory / Yehuda Amichai -- An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion / Amlin Gray -- How I Got That Story / Václav Havel -- Protest / Writing about Conflict and Structure / Exile / Mark Mathabane -- I Leave South Africa / Kim Chi-Wǒn -- A Certain Beginning / Keri Hulme -- Unnamed Island in the Unknown Sea / Mahdokht Kashkuli -- The Button / Neil Bissoondath -- Insecurity / Arun Mukherjee -- Visiting Places / Julio Cortázar -- Letter to a Young Lady in Paris / Albert Camus -- The Guest / Mahasweta Devi -- Giribala / Czeslaw Milosz -- My Faithful Mother Tongue / Lennart Sjögren -- The Roses / Wing Tek Lum -- Minority Poem / Rahel Chalfi -- Porcupine Fish / Pablo Neruda -- Goodbyes / Diane Wakoski -- The Orange / Mitsuye Yamada -- I Learned to Sew / David Henry Hwang -- The Dance and the Railroad / Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- The Cuban Swimmer / Writing about Context / The Spiritual Dimension / Octavio Paz -- The Day of the Dead / Inés Arrendondo -- The Shunammite / Naguib Mahfouz -- Half a Day / Tayeb Salih -- The Cypriot Man / François Barcelo -- The Man Who Stopped Trains / Peter Carey -- The Last Days of a Famous Mime / Joaquim María Machado de Assis -- A Canary's Ideas / Guy de Maupassant -- An Old Man / Abioseh Nicol -- Life is Sweet at Kumansenu / Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Jorge Luis Borges -- Afterglow / Ma Lihua -- My Sun / Rita Dove -- The Wake / Anna Kamieńska -- Funny / Nelly Sachs -- Chorus of the Dead / Zbigniew Herbert -- Preliminary Investigation / Bella Akhmadulina -- The Garden / Vasko Popa -- The Lost Red Boot / William Butler Yeats -- The Second Coming / Christopher Durang -- Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You / Writing about Symbols and Myths.
Summary:
"Presenting a multi-cultural and international focus, the book features works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by writers from more than sixty countries. Half of the authors featured are women...these stories, poems, essays, and plays represent a wide variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Seven thematically organized chapters move from the personal sphere ("Coming of Age", "Gender") to social and spiritual issues ("Class," "The Individual and the State," and " Spiritual Dimension"). This allows readers not only to relate to these works in terms of their own experiences, but to see commonalities between their experiences and those of people in substantially different cultural circumstances. Compelling and provocative writings by authors from the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, South America, and Central America..." - Amazon.com and preface
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