VOLUME D: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.
CROSS-CURRENTS: COURTS AND COMMONERS.
The World the Mughals Made. Babur (1483-1530) tr. Wheeler M. Thackston.
From
The History of Babur.
Jahangir (1569-1627) tr. Wheeler M. Thackston.
From
The Memoirs of Jahangir.
Sauda (Urdu, 1713-1781) tr. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam.
[How to Earn a Living in Hindustan].
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810).
[Selected Couplets], tr. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam, from
The Autobiography tr. C. M. Naim.
Barnarsidass.
From
Half a Tale (Hindi, 1641) tr. Mukund Lath.
Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725). Love Suicide at Amijima (1712), a puppet play tr. Donald Keene.
Resonance.
Hokuzumi Ozumi Ikan,
Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre.
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). From
Japan's Eternal Storehouse (1688) tr. G.W. Sargent.
Cao Xueqin (1715-63). From
The Story of the Stone, tr.David Hawkes and John Minford.
Resonance.
Shen Fu: from
Six Records of a Floating Life.
The Ottoman Empire. The Story of Leyla and Mejnun.
Mihri Hatun (d. 1506).
I opened my eyes from sleep.
At times, my longing for the beloved slays me.
My heart burns in flames of sorrow.
Fuzuli (d. 1556).
Oh God, don't let anyone be like me.
If my heart were a wild bird.
For long years we have been haunting the quarter.
The pointed reproach of the enemy.
Nedim (1681-1730) tr. Andrews, Black, and Kalpakli.
At the gathering of desire.
When the east east wind leaves that curl.
As the morning wind blows.
Take yourself to the rose garden.
Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wire.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762),
The Turkish Embassy Letters.
To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717).
To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717).
To Lady Mar (18 April 1717).
THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673). The School for Wives.
Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship. Marie-Madeline Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Lafayette.
The Countess of Tende, tr. April Alliston.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne
From
Letters.
Elisabeth Charlotte von Pfalz, Ducheese D'Orleans.
From
Letters.
Madeleine de Scudery.
From
Clelie, tr. April Alliston.
Katherine Philips.
To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship.
An Answer to another persuading a Lady to marriage.
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor.
From
The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels. Ann Yearsley.
To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved.
Mary, Lady Chudleigh.
From
The Ladies Defence.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.
The Introduction.
Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia.
Spleen.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Oroonoko.
Resonance.
George Warren: from
An Impartial Description of Surinam.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). The Lady's Dressing Room.
Resonance.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write `The Lady's Dressing Room'.
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.
Gulliver's Travels.
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Perspectives: Journeys In Search of the Self. Evliya Celebi (1611-1684).
From
The Book of Travels.
Matsuo Basho (1644-94).
[Selected Hokku] tr. Haruo Shirane, from
Narrow Road to the Interior tr. Helen McCullough.
Denis Diderot.
From
Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.
Olaudah Equiano.
From
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
Charles de Secondat, Baron De la Br138e et De Montesquieu.
From
Persian Letters.
Francoise de Graffigny.
From
Letters of a Peruvian Woman.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock.
From
An Essay on Man.
Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778). Candide, tr. Pearson.
Resonance.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, From
Theodicy.
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838). Libretto to
Don Giovanni.
Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines. Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693).
From
Life of a Sensuous Woman (1686), tr. Chris Drake.
Tsangyang Gyatsu.
From
Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama.
John Wilmont, Earl of Rochester.
The Imperfect Enjoyment.
Satyr Against Reason and Mankind.
Immanuel Kant.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
From The Social Contract.
Mary Wollstonecraft.
From
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld.
The Rights of Women.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos.
From
Dangerous Liaisons.
Giacomo Casanova.
From
The History of My Life. Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Marquis de Sade.
From
Philosophy in the Boudoir.
Eliza Haywood.
Fantomina or,
Love in a Maze.
VOLUME E: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
CROSS-CURRENTS: THE FOLK AND THEIR TALES.
Aesop. The Wolf and the Lamb.
The Lion's Share.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
The Fox and the Crow.
The Frogs Desiring a King.
The Hare and the Tortoise.
Panchatantra, tr. Patrick Olivelle. The Turtle and the Geese.
Jean De La Fontaine, tr. N.R. Shapiro. The Tortoise and the Two Geese (French, 1678).
The Pali Jatalax, tr. Robert Chalmers. Prince Five-Weapons, Panchavudha Jataka.
Joel Chandler Harris. The Wonderful Tar-Baby.
Charles Perrault. Donkeyskin.
Benedikte Naubert. From
The Cloak.
Jacob Grimm. All Kinds of Fur.
Coyote Tales. Coyote and Bull.
Coyote as Medicine-Man.
Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.
Nutting.
From Preface to
Lyrical Ballads.
My heart leaps up.
To the Cuckoo.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
Mark the concentrated hazels that enclose.
The Prelude.
From Book 5,
The Dream of the Arab. London.
From Book 6,
Traveling in the Alps. Simplon Pass.
From Book 11,
Imagination Restored by Nature.
From Book 14,
Conclusion.
Perspectives: Romantic Nature. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Reverie 5. Immanuel Kant.
From
Critique of Practical Reason.
William Blake.
The Ecchoing Green.
The Tyger.
John Keats.
Ode to a Nightingale. To Autumn.
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff.
The Man on the Heath.
In the Grass.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837).
The Infinite, tr. Iris Origo and John Heath-Stubbs.
Dialogue Between Nature and an Icelander.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
From
Nature.
From
Self-Reliance.
Henry David Thoreau.
From
Walden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Faust, tr. David Luke.
Part 1.
Dedication.
Prelude on the Stage.
Prologue in Heaven.
From Night.
From Outside the Town Wall.
Faust's Study (1).
From Faust's Study (2).
Auerbach's Tavern in Leipzig.
A Witch's Kitchen.
Evening.
A Promenade.
The Neighbor's House.
A Street.
A Garden.
A Summerhouse.
From A Forest Cavern.
Gretchen's Room.
Martha's Garden.
At the Well.
By a Shrine Inside the Town Wall.
A Cathedral.
From A Walpurgis Night.
Part 2.
FromAct 1.
From Act 2.
From Act 5.
Resonance.
Johann Peter Eckermann, from
Conversations with Goethe.
George Gordon, Lord Byron. (1788-1824). From
Don Juan.
Ghalib (1797-1869) Ghazals, tr. Adrienne Rich and Robert Bly.
I'm neither the loosening of song nor the close-drawn tent of music.
Come now: I want you: my only peace When I look out, I see no hope for change, tr. Robert Bly.
If King Jamshid's diamond cup breaks, that's it.
One can sigh, but a lifetime is needed to finish it.
When the Great One gestures to me, the message does not become clear.
For tomorrow's sake, don't skimp with me on wine today.
I'm confused: should I cry over my heart, or slap my chest? She has a habit of torture, but doesn't mean to end the love. For my weak heart this living in the sorrow house is more than enough. Religious people are always praising the Garden of Paradise. Only a few faces show up as roses; where are the rest? I agree that I'm in a cage, and I'm crying. Each time I open my mouth, the Great One says: You-you, who are you? My heart is becoming restless again.
Resonance.
Agha Shahid Ali,
Ghalib's Ghazal, Ghazal Of Snow.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Autumn.
Again I visit, tr. Yarmolinsky.
The Bronze Horseman, a Petersburg Tale.
From
Eugene Onegin.
Perspectives: The National Poet. Nguyen Du (Vietnam, 1765-1820).
Reading Hsiao-ching, tr. Nguyen Ngoc Bich w/ Burton Raffle.
From
The Tale of Kieu, tr. Huynh Sanh Thong.
Resonance.
Che Lan Vien,
Thoughts on Nguyen.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825).
The Mouse's Petition to Dr. Priestly.
Washing Day.
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
Resonance.
John Wilson Croker, from
A Review of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855).
Chatir Dah, tr. John Saly.
The Death of Heroes, tr. Clark Mills.
The Ruins of the Castle of Balaklava, tr. Louise Bogan.
Zosia in the Kitchen Garden, tr. Donald Davie.
The Lithuanian Forest, tr. John Saly.
Hands That Fought, tr. Clark Mills.
To a Polish Mother, tr. Michael J. Miks.
Song of the Bard.
Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857).
The Free Besieged.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
From
The Poet.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
I Hear America Singing.
from
Song of Myself.
Song of the Open Road.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.
O Captain! My Captain! Prayer of Columbus.
Perspectives: On the Colonial Frontier. Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841).
From
A Hero of our Time, tr. Paul Foote.
Domingo Sarmiento (1811-1888).
From
Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga: Civilization and Barbarism, tr. Mary Mann
Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa)(Sioux)
From
From the Deep Woods to Civilization.
Hawaiian Poems, tr. M.K. Pukui and A.L. Korn.
Forest Trees of the Sea.
Piano at Evening.
Bill the Ice Skater.
The Pearl.
A Feather Chant for Ka-pi'o-lani at Wai-manalo.
The Sprinkler. Jose Rizal (1861-1896, Philippines).
From
Noli Me Tangere,D, tr. Soledad Lacson-Locsin. THE ROMANTIC FANTASTIC.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772-1834). Kubla Khan.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853). Fair Eckbert.
Honorede Balzac (1799-1850). Sarrasine.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The Pit and the Pendulum.
The Raven.
Nikolay Vasil Yevich Gogol (1809-1852). The Overcoat, tr. Ronald Wilks.
George Eliot (1819-1880). The Lifted Veil.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). A Simple Heart.
From
Travels in Egypt, tr. Francis Steegmuller.
Perspectives: Views of the West, Occidentalism. Mustafa Sami Efendi (Turkey).
From
Essay on Europe (1838).
Najaf Kuli Mirza.
From
Journal of a Residence in England.
Hattori Busho (Japan).
From
The Western Peep Show (1874).
Okakura Kakuzo.
The Cup of Humanity.
Resonance.
Chiang Yee, From
The Silent Traveller in London.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (1806-1861).
From
Aurora Leigh.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).
From
Les Fleurs Du Mal (1857, 1861, 1868) tr. Richard Howard.
To the Reader.
The Albatross. Correspondences.
The Head of Hair. Carrion.
Invitation to the Voyage. Spleen (II).
The Swan.
In Passing.
Twilight: Daybreak.
Ragpickers' Wine.
A Martyr.
Travelers.
From
The Painter of Modern Life (1863), tr. P.E. Charvet.
From
Paris Spleen (1869), tr. E. Kaplan.
To Each His Chimera.
Crowds.
Invitation to the Voyage.
Get High.
Any Where Out of the World.
Let's Beat Up the Poor! Resonances.
Jules and Edmund Goncourt, From
Journal.
Stephane Mallarme,
The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire.
Arthur Rimbaud,
Vowels, City, Departure, tr. Wallace Fowlie.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). After the Ball.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1822-1881). Notes from Underground, tr. Ralph E. Matlaw (1864).
Resonances.
Friedrich Nietzsche, From
Daybreak.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, From
Diaries.
Ishikawa Takuboku,
The Romaji Diary.
OTHER AMERICAS.
The Navajo Creation Story. Resonance.
Black Elk and John G. Neihardt, from
Black Elk Speaks.
Esteban Echevarria (1805-1851). The Slaughterhouse.
Herman Melville (1819-1891). Bartleby the Scrivener.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895). The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845).
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897). From
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). I never lost as much but twice.
Title divine-is mine! There came a day at summer's full. It was not Death, for I stood up. After great pain, a formal feeling comes. I died for Beauty.
I dwell in Possibility. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died.
I live with Him-I see His face.
My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun.
Further in Summer than the Birds.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-.
Joachim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908). The Psychiatrist (1882), tr. William L. Grossman.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). The Yellow Wallpaper.
Ruben Dari (1867-1916). First, A Look.
Walt Whitman.
To Roosevelt.
I Pursue a Form.... What Sign Do You Give...?
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). A Doll's House, tr. Peter Watts.
Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896). Separate Ways, tr. R.L. Danly.
Liu E (1857-1909). The Travels of Lao Ts'an, tr. Harold Shadick.
Anton Chekov (1860-1904). Lady with Pet Dog, tr. Avram Yarmolinsky.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Kabuliwallah, tr. William Radice.
Conclusion.
VOLUME F: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
CROSS-CURRENTS: THE ART OF THE MANIFESTO.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Futurist Manifesto.
Tristan Tzara. Dada-Unpretentious Proclamation.
Andre Breton. The Surrealist Manifesto.
Mina Loy. Feminist Manifesto.
Yokomitsu Riichi. Sensation and New Sensation.
Oswald de Andrade. Cannibalist Manifesto, tr. Leslie Bary.
Andre Breton, Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera. Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art tr. Dwight MacDonald.
Hu Shi. Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature.
Joseph Conrad. Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus.
Heart of Darkness (1899). Resonances.
Joseph Conrad, From
Congo Diary.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, From
Address to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
Premchand. My Big Brother.
Lu Xun. Preface to
A Call to Arms.
A Madman's Diary (1918).
A Small Incident.
James Joyce. Clay.
Araby.
The Dead.
Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway on Bond Street.
The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Rashomon.
In a Grove.
A Note Forwarded to a Certain Old Friend.
Resonance.
Kurosawa Akira, from
Something Like an Autobiography.
Perspectives: Modernist Memory. Marcel Proust.
From
Remembrance of Things Past.
T.S. Eliot.
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land Constantine Cavafy.
Days of 1908, tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
Ithaka.
Federico Garcia Lorca.
Sleepless City.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
In the Middle of the Road.
Emile Habiby.
From
The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist, tr. Jayyusi & LeGassick.
Octovaio Paz.
A Wind Called Bob Rauschenberg, tr. Eliot Weinberger.
Central Park tr. Eliot Weinberger.
Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis (1915), tr. Stanley Corngold.
Parables.
The Trees, tr. J.A. Underwood.
The Next Village, tr. Willa Muir & Edwin Muir.
The Cares of a Family Man, tr. Willa Muir & Edwin Muir.
Give it Up!, tr. Tania Stern & James Stern.
On Parables , tr. Willa Muir & Edwin Muir.
Anna Akhmatova (Russia). The Muse, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer.
Requiem, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer.
I Heard a Voice..., tr. Daniel Weissbort.
I am not with those..., tr. Judith Hemschemeyer.
Boris Pasternak, tr. Richard McKane.
Crucifixion.
Why is this century worse, tr. Richard McKane.
Perspectives: Modernism and Revolution in Russia. Vladimir Mayakovski.
Listen!, tr. Dorian Rottenberg.
Fed Up, tr. Dorian Rottenberg.
Ode to the Revolution, tr. Dorian Rottenberg.
On Trash, tr. Herbert Marshall.
Boris Pasternak.
O Had I Known..., tr. Lydia Pasternak Slater.
On Early Trains, tr. George Reavey.
Hamlet, tr. Lydia Pasternak Slater.
Andrei Bely.
From
The Magic of Words, tr. T.G. West.
Marina Tzvetaeva.
The Poet, tr. Elaine Feinstein.
Readers of Newspapers.
Osip Mandelstam.
To A.A.A. (Akhmatova), tr. Bernard Meares.
We live, not feeling ..., tr. Albert C. Todd.
By denying me the seas, tr. Bernard Meares.
William Butler Yeats (Ireland). The Lake Isle of Innisfree,D. Who Goes with Fergus? No Second Troy. The Wild Swans at Coole. Easter 1916. Resonance.
Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
The Second Coming.
Sailing to Byzantium.
Byzantium.
Under Ben Bulben.
Rainer Maria Rilke (Austro-Hungarian Empire/Germany). The Panther, tr. Walter Arndt.
Duino Elegies, tr. Stephen Spender.
The First Elegy (Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic).
The Second Elegy (Every Angel is terrible. Still, though, alas!).
The Fourth Elegy (O trees of life, when will your winter come?).
Sonnets to Orpheus.
I.1 (A tree ascended there. O pure transcendence!)
I.2 (And it was almost a girl who, stepping from).
I.3 (A god can do that. But will you tell me how).
I.5 (Erect no gravestone to his memory, just).
Perspectives: Poetry About Poetry. Ezra Pound.
A Pact.
Daniel David Moses.
The Line.
Eugenio Montale.
Rhymes, tr. William Arrowsmith.
Poetry.
Fernando Pessoa.
Autopsychography, tr. Edwin Honig.
This, tr. Edwin Honig.
Today I read nearly two pages, tr. Edwin Honig.
The ancients used to invoke, tr. Jonathan Griffin.
Pablo Neruda.
Tonight I can write... , tr. W.S. Merwin.
Ars Poetica, tr. Nathaniel Tarm.
Wallace Stevens.
Anecdote of the Jar.
Of Modern Poetry.
Of Mere Being.
Bei Dao.
He Opens Wide a Third Eye, tr. McDougall & Maiping.
Old Snow, tr. McDougall & Maiping.
Nazim Hikmet.
Regarding Art, tr. Blasing & Konuk.
Bertol Brecht. Mother Courage And Her Children, tr. Ralph Manheim or tr. John Willett.
Primo Levi. The Two Flags, tr. Raymond Rosenthal.
From
Survival in Auschwitz, tr. Stuart Woolf.
Perspectives: Echoes of War. Rupert Brooke.
The Great Lover.
Peace.
The Soldier.
Wilfred Owen.
Anthem for Doomed Youth.
Strange Meeting.
Disabled.
Dulce et Decorum Est.
Mishima Yukio.
Patriotism, tr. Geoffrey Sargent.
From
The Temple of Dawn, tr. E. Dale Saunders & Celin Cegawa Seigle.
Paul Celan.
Death Fugue.
Yosano Akiko.
I Beg You, Brother: Do Not Die, tr. Jay Rubin.
Zbigniew Herbert.
Report from the Besieged City, tr. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter.
Alejo Carpentier.
Like the Night.
Nazim Hikmet.
Giaconda and Si-Ya-U.
Ingeborg Bachmann.
Youth in an Austrian Town, tr. Michael Bullock.
Yehuda Amichai.
Seven Laments for the War-Dead, tr. Chana Bloch & Stephen Mitchell.
Little Ruth, tr. Barbara & Benjamin Harshav.
Samuel Beckett. Endgame.
Perspectives: Cosmopolitan Exiles. Cesar Vallejo.
Agape, tr. Richard Schaaf & Kathleen Ross.
Our Daily Bread, tr. Richard Schaaf & Kathleen Ross.
Good Sense, tr. Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubia Barcia.
Black stone on a white stone, tr. Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubia Barcia.
Vladimir Nabokov.
An Evening of Russian Poetry.
Czeslow Milosz.
Child of Europe.
Encounter.
Dedication. Fear-Dream. V.S. Naipaul.
From
Prologue to an Autobiography.
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id).
A Mirror to Khalida, tr. Samuel Hazo.
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina). The Garden of Forking Paths, tr. Andrew Hurley.
The Library of Babel, tr. Andrew Hurley.
Borges and I, tr. Andrew Hurley.
The Web, tr. Alexander Coleman or Alastair Reed.
Cult of the Phoenix, tr. Andrew Hurley.
Resonance.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
I Sell My Dreams.
Nagib Mahfouz. Zaabalawi, tr. Denys Johnson-Davies.
Hanzal and the Policeman, tr. Kararah, rev. Kirkhaus.
The Harafish, tr. Catherine Cobham.
The Thief Who Stole the Melody.
Arabian Nights and Days.
Shahriyar.
Shahrzad.
The Sheikh.
The Cafe of the Emirs.
Sanaan al-Gamali.
Perspectives: The 1001 Nights in the Twentieth Century. Guneli Gun.
From
On the Road to Baghdad.
John Barth.
Dunyazadiad.
Italo Calvino.
From
Invisible Cities.
Assia Djebar.
From
A Sister to Sheherazade.
Leopold Sedar Senghor. Letter to a Poet, tr. Melvin Dixon.
Nocturne (She Flies She Flies), tr. John Reed & Clive Wake.
Black Woman, tr. Norman Shapiro.
To New York, tr. Melvin Dixon.
Correspondence, tr. Melvin Dixon.
Aime Cesaire. From
Notebook of a Return to a Native Land, tr. Eshleman & Smith.
Resonance.
George Elliott Clarke,
Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France.
Gerald Vizenor. Ice Tricksters.
Shadows.
Perspectives: Indigenous Cultures in the Twentieth Century. Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal (Kath Walker).
We Are Going.
Archie Weller.
Going Home.
Keri Hulme.
From
The Bone People.
Paula Gunn Allen.
Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe.
Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins.
Leslie Marmon Silko.
From
The Storyteller.
N. Scott Momaday.
From
The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Louise Erdrich.
Dear John Wayne.
Al-Kuni.
The Golden Bird of Misfortune.
Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang). Stale Mates.
Mahasweta Devi, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Breast-Giver.
Perspectives: Gendered Spaces. Clarice Lispector.
Preciousness.
Fatima Mernissi.
From
Dreams of Trespass.
Ama Ata Aidoo.
No Sweetness Here.
Hanan Al-Shaykh.
A Season of Madness.
Juan Goytisolo.
From
Makbara.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Artificial Roses.
Mariama Ba (Senegal), tr. Modupe Bode-Thomas. So Long a Letter (1979).
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria). Things Fall Apart (1958).
From
The African Writer and the English Language.
Resonances.
Jeremy Cronin,
To learn how to speak.... Bartho Smit,
I Take Back My Country.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, From
The Language of African Literature.
Mbwil Am. Ngal, From
Giambatista Viko; or,
The Rape of African Discourse,D. Wole Soyinka (Nigeria). Death and the King's Horseman.
Perspectives: Post-Colonial Conditions. Derek Walcott.
A Far Cry from Africa.
Volcano.
Fadwa Tuqan, tr. Byrne, Jayyusi, and Nye.
In the Aging City.
In the Flux.
Face Lost in the Wilderness.
Mahmoud Darwish.
A Poem Which Is Not Green, from My Country.
Diary of a Palestinian Wound.
Sirhan drinks his coffee in the cafeteria.
Birds die in Galilee.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, tr. Naomi Lazard.
Black Out.
No Sign of Blood.
Solitary Confinement.
Reza Baraheni.
The Unrecognized.
Answers to an Interrogation.
Farough Faroghzad.
A Poem for You.
Nadine Gordimer.
The Defeated.
Salman Rushdie.
Chekov and Zulu.
Perspectives: At Century's Edge: Literature, Technology, and Media. Mario Vargas Llosa.
From
The Storyteller, tr. Helen Lane.
Christa Wolf, tr. Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian.
From Accident/A Day's News (1987).
Abdelrahman Munif.
From
Cities of Salt, tr. Peter Theroux.
Murakami Haruki.
TV People, tr. Alfred Birnbaum.
William Gibson.
Burning Chrome.
