Other Voices, Other Vistas : Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America

by Various (Author); Solomon, Barbara H (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780451528407
• ISBN10: 0451528409
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

Taking us into the houses, streets, villages, cities - and hearts - of people around the globe, this exciting collection makes accessible a truly cross-cultural selection of important short fiction. Twenty-five contemporary stories from five cultures far different from our own bring us the distinct flavours and sights, values and conflicts of modern Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America. But against the totally foreign and exotic backdrops, the powerful dramas and relationships that come to life are universal and instantly familiar. Bringing together the works of writers as diverse as Bessie Head, Lu Wenfu, Mahasweta Devi, Yuko Tsushima, and Luisa Valenzuela, this unique collection of world literature expands our cultural horizons.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(16)
AFRICAN STORIES
Civil Peace	27	(8)
Chinua Achebe
Africa Emergent	35	(17)
Nadine Gordimer
The Collector of Treasures	52	(22)
Bessie Head
Who Will Stop the Dark?	74	(21)
Charles Mungoshi
A Meeting in the Dark	95	(20)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Selected African Anthologies	111	(4)
CHINESE STORIES
The Destination	115	(26)
Wang Anyi
Sketches From the ``Cattle Shed''	141	(15)
Ding Ling
Kite Streamers	156	(25)
Wang Meng
Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter	181	(14)
Chen Rong
The Man from s Peddlers Family	195	(24)
Lu Wenfu
Selected Chinese Anthologies	214	(5)
INDIAN STORIES
Pigeons at Daybreak	219	(10)
Anita Desai
Dhowli	229	(29)
Mahasweta Devi
The Interview	258	(14)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
A Horse and Two Goats	272	(19)
R. K. Narayan
The Wog	291	(24)
Khushwant Singh
Selected Indian Anthologies	311	(4)
JAPANESE STORIES
The Magic Chalk	315	(14)
Kobo Abe
The Tomoshibi	329	(19)
Sawako Ariyoshi
The Moon on the Water	348	(12)
Yasunari Kawbata
Act of Worship	360	(53)
Yukio Mishima
The Silent Traders	413	(16)
Yuko Tsushima
Selected Japanese Anthologies	425	(4)
LATIN AMERICAN STORIES
Clarisa	429	(14)
Isabel Allende
The Book of Sand	443	(7)
Jorge Luis Borges
The Cost of Living	450	(12)
Carlos Fuentes
Death Constant Beyond Love	462	(10)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Papito's Story	472
Luisa Valenzuela
Selected Latin American Anthologies	477