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Literatures of Asia, Africa
and Latin America
by Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone
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Provides substantial and representative selections -- featuring translations chosen
with particular care with regard to literary quality.
Includes a thorough general introduction, section introductions, and extensive
headnotes that provide broad and specific contexts for the literary texts.
Arranges selections into sections that represent cultural and national distinctions,
and sub-sections that represent major cultural areas.
Presents selections chronologically within each section.
Orders sections to reveal models of cultural influence from section to section.
Includes primary literary genres and forms (poetry, fiction, and drama) as well as
key religious, philosophical, historical, aesthetic, biographical, and political texts
that have literary merit.
Features an extensive selection of Pre-Columbian and Post-Columbian oral and
written literature in Native American languages.
Charts in detail the chronology of major movements between nations and cultures
of each continental division -- linguistic, literary, political, and religious.
Contains up-to-date bibliographies.
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