Literature without Borders

by Bozzini, George R.; Leenerts, Cynthia A.

• ISBN13: 9780130166654
• ISBN10: 0130166650
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Designed to encourage readers to read and think critically, compassionately, and globally, this comprehensive collection of contemporary writing in English spotlights English as an international literary language. The broad range of genres from some of the world's finest writers, cross diverse gender, generational and ethnic lines.Breadth and quality of essays, memoirs, poems and stories cover such enduring themes as heritage, family, community, identity and autonomy, love and commitment, (post) colonization, the immigrant experience and alienation.For individuals interested in expanding the boarders of their reading to include a showcase of English language literature.

Author Biography

GEORGE R. BOZZINI (Ph.D. Georgetown University, 1971) has been a member of the George Washington University faculty since 1972. He is an Associate Professor of English and English as a Foreign Language.

Cynthia A. Leenerts (Ph.D. George Washington University, 1997) has been on the George Washington University faculty since 1994. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English.

Table of Contents

To the Reader	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
OUR COMMON HUMANITY
PART ONE: Heritage, Family, Community	1	(130)
[It Was a Long Time Before] [poem]	3	(3)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Ah Mah [poem]	6	(3)
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Grandfather at Noon: Lahore, 1957 [memoir]	9	(10)
Julian Samuel
Grandma's Tales [story]	19	(6)
Andrew Lam
Why a Robin? [story]	25	(7)
Shashi Deshpande
Friend of My Youth [story]	32	(18)
Alice Munro
A Rose in the Heart of New York [story]	50	(23)
Edna O'Brien
My Mother [story]	73	(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
Anoma [story]	79	(4)
Punyakante Wijenaike
The Gift [poem]	83	(3)
Li-Young Lee
Goalie [story]	86	(6)
Rudy Thauberger
Digging [poem]	92	(3)
Seamus Heaney
The Next Life [story]	95	(10)
Peter Ho Davies
A Family Supper [story]	105	(9)
Kazuo Ishiguro
It Used to Be Green Once [story]	114	(6)
Patricia Grace
Jewish Christmas [memoir]	120	(5)
Faye Moskowitz
The Holiday Season [poem]	125	(6)
Jane Shore
PART TWO: Identity and Autonomy	131	(76)
For My People [poem]	133	(4)
Margaret Walker
El Grupo McDonald's [poem]	137	(3)
Nick Carbo
Kicking the Habit [poem]	140	(5)
Lawson Fusao Inada
The Day They Burned the Books [story]	145	(7)
Jean Rhys
Thread [memoir]	152	(6)
Stuart Dybek
Good Girls Are Bad News [story]	158	(6)
Subhadra Sen Gupta
The Creation [story]	164	(18)
Maxine Clair
Death by Music [story]	182	(13)
Rukun Advani
Mother Dressmaking. Flying to Belfast. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home [poems]	195	(6)
Craig Raine
Of Rabbi Yose. A Winter Visit. Of Itzig and His Dog [poems]	201	(6)
Dannie Abse
PART THREE: Love and Commitment	207	(162)
Wonderful People [story]	209	(3)
Richard Hagopian
The Tenant [story]	212	(13)
Bharati Mukherjee
Two Poems for a Wedding	225	(5)
Epithalamium [poem]	225	(1)
Andrew Motion
The Wedding Feast at Cana [poem]	226	(4)
Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Bridegroom [story]	230	(17)
Ha Jin
Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War [story]	247	(13)
John Updike
Yellow Woman [story]	260	(10)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Postcard [poem]	270	(3)
Margaret Atwood
Incompatibilities [poem]	273	(3)
Ted Hughes
Shanti [story]	276	(27)
Vikram Chandra
OTHERNESS
PART FOUR: (Post) Colonization	303	(2)
`Commonwealth Literature' Does Not Exist [essay]	305	(10)
Salman Rushdie
The Song of Ourselves [essay]	315	(7)
Chinua Achebe
dis poem [poem]	322	(4)
Mutabaruka
Dead Men's Path [story]	326	(5)
Chinua Achebe
The Lemon Orchard [story]	331	(5)
Alex La Guma
The Return [story]	336	(6)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
In the Shadow of War [story]	342	(5)
Ben Okri
In the Hills [story]	347	(4)
Christine Craig
Politics and Poetry: Three African Voices	351	(7)
And So It Came to Pass [poem]	351	(2)
Funso Ayejina
The Coming of Day [poem]	353	(1)
Yao Egblewogbe
No Coffin, No Grave [poem]	354	(4)
Jared Angira
Africa Kills Her Sun [story]	358	(11)
Ken Saro-Wiwa
PART FIVE: The Immigrant Experience	369	(52)
Crickets [story]	371	(6)
Robert Olen Butler
New York Day Women [story]	377	(6)
Edwidge Danticat
A Wedding in Spring [story]	383	(11)
George Lamming
Woman with Kite [poem]	394	(3)
Chitra Divakaruni
Three Poems on the Filipino Immigrant Experience	397	(8)
Dinakdakan [poem]	397	(2)
Maria Luisa B Aguilar-Carino
Assimilation [poem]	399	(2)
Eugene Gloria
Pacific Crossing [poem]	401	(4)
Vince Gotera
Mrs Dutta Writes a Letter [story]	405	(16)
Chitra Divakaruni
PART SIX: Alienation	421	(88)
Once Upon a Time [story]	423	(6)
Nadine Gordimer
White Fantasy---Black Fact [story]	429	(6)
Jack Davis
Village [story]	435	(8)
Estela Portillo Trambley
Hiroshima. The Northern Ireland Question. Peace [poems]	443	(5)
Desmond Egan
Crocodile [story]	448	(7)
Albert Wendt
The Blue Donkey. Apotheosis [fables]	455	(4)
Suniti Namjoshi
Or Else, the Lightning God [story]	459	(11)
Catherine Lim
The Loons [story]	470	(10)
Margaret Laurence
A New Wardrobe for Rainbow Jack [story]	480	(12)
Herb Wharton
The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep [story]	492	(10)
Vivienne Plumb
Chew You Up and Spit You Out [story]	502	(7)
Fay Weldon
OUR UNCOMMON HUMANITY
PART SEVEN: Nature, Faith, Spirit	509	(132)
A Boy in a Snow Shower [poem]	511	(3)
George Mackay Brown
Sweet, Sweet Corn [story/hymn]	514	(4)
Garrison Keillor
One of the Wild Beautiful Creatures [essay]	518	(3)
N Scott Momaday
Atmospheric Phenomenon: The Art of Hurricanes [poem]	521	(7)
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Pantoum of the Great Depression [poem]	528	(3)
Donald Justice
Waiting for a Turn [story]	531	(8)
Ken Lipenga
The Spell and the Ever-Changing Moon [story]	539	(10)
Rukhsana Ahmed
Easter Sunday Morning [story]	549	(11)
Hazel D Campbell
Under the Banyan Tree [story]	560	(6)
R K Narayan
No Music Before Mosque [story]	566	(9)
Zebun-Nissa Hamidulla
The Rain Came [story]	575	(9)
Grace Ogot
The Miracle [story]	584	(12)
Ba'Bila Mutia
The Collector of Treasures [story]	596	(16)
Bessie Head
Midnight Soldiers [story]	612	(10)
Vishwapriya Iyengar
The Farewell Party [story]	622	(12)
Anita Desai
Poem for the End of the Century [poem]	634	(3)
John Haines
The Season of Phantasmal Peace [poem]	637	(4)
Derek Walcott
Credits	641	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	647