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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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About the Editors |
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1 | (20) |
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Illustration, Umberto Boccioni, unique Forms of Continuity in Space |
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Belgian mining magnate and Africa chauffeur, Congo Free State |
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d' Avignon |
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory (Soft Watches) |
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Georgia O'Keefe, Cow's Skull with Calico Roses |
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Bhupen Khakhar, Ghost City Night |
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Frank Gebry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain |
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Illustration, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (5) |
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Illustration, Global shrinkage: The effect of changing transport technologies on ``real'' distance |
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11 | (10) |
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17 | (4) |
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PERSPECTIVES The Art of the Manifesto |
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21 | (199) |
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) |
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21 | (4) |
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The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism (trans. Joshua C. Taylor) |
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22 | (3) |
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Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) |
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25 | (2) |
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Unpretentious Proclamation (trans. Barbara Wright) |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (6) |
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The Surrealist Manifesto (trans. Patrick Waldberg) |
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28 | (4) |
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The Declaration of January 27, 1925 (trans. Maurice Nadeau) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (3) |
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34 | (2) |
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Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947) |
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36 | (2) |
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Sensation and New Sensation (trans. Dennis Keene) |
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36 | (2) |
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Oswald De Andrade (1890-1954) |
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38 | (5) |
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Cannibalist Manifesto (trans. Leslie Bary) |
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38 | (5) |
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Andre Breton (1896-1966), Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) |
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43 | (4) |
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Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art (trans. Dwight MacDonald) |
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44 | (3) |
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47 | (8) |
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from Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature (trans. Kirk A. Denton) |
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47 | (8) |
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55 | (1) |
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
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55 | (66) |
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Illustration. Sir H. M. Stanley's Three African Journeys |
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57 | (1) |
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Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (60) |
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Joseph Conrad: from Congo Diary |
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115 | (62) |
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley: from Address of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce |
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121 | (6) |
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My Big Brother (trans. David Rubin) |
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122 | (5) |
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127 | (12) |
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Preface to A Call to Arms (trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang) |
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128 | (3) |
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131 | (7) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (33) |
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142 | (30) |
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142 | (4) |
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146 | (26) |
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
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172 | (35) |
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Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street |
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174 | (33) |
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The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection |
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179 | (3) |
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182 | (25) |
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Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) |
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207 | (13) |
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Rashomon (trans. T. Kojima) |
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208 | (3) |
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In a Grove (trans. Seiki M. Lippit) |
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211 | (6) |
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A Note Forwarded to a Certain old Friend (trans. A. Inoue) |
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217 | (3) |
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PERSPECTIVES Modernist Memory |
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220 | (91) |
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220 | (17) |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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221 | (3) |
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224 | (13) |
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Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) |
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237 | (2) |
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Days of 1908 (trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard) |
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238 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (2) |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) |
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241 | (2) |
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Unsleeping City (trans. Ben Belitt) |
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242 | (1) |
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Carlos Drummond De Andrade (1902-1987) |
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243 | (1) |
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In the Middle of the Road (trnas. Elizabeth Bishop) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (9) |
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from the Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist (trans. Salma Jayyusi and Trevor LeGassick) |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (1) |
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A Wind Called Bob Rauschenberg (trans. Eliot Weinberger) |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (33) |
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The Metamorphosis (trans. Stanley Corngold) |
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255 | (30) |
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285 | (1) |
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The Trees (trans. J.A. Underwood) |
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285 | (1) |
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The Next Village (trans. Willa and Edwin Muir) |
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285 | (1) |
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The Cares of a Family Man (trans. Willa and Edwin Muir) |
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285 | (1) |
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Give It Up! (trnia. Tania and James Stern) |
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286 | (1) |
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On Parables (trans. Willa and Edwin Muir) |
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286 | (1) |
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Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis |
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286 | (1) |
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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) |
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286 | (13) |
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The Muse (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer) |
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290 | (1) |
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I am not with those (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer) |
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290 | (1) |
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Boris Pasternak (trans. Richard McKane) |
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291 | (1) |
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Why is this century worse (trans. Richard McKane) |
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292 | (1) |
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Requiem (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer) |
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292 | (7) |
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Osip Mandelstam: To A.A.A. (Akhmatova) (trans. Bernard Meares) |
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299 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
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299 | (12) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (3) |
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Proclamation of the Irish Republic |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (3) |
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PERSPECTIVES Poetry About Poetry |
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311 | (72) |
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312 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) |
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313 | (1) |
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Rhymes (trans. William Arrowsmith) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) |
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314 | (5) |
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This (trans. Edwin Honing) |
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315 | (1) |
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Today I read nearly two pages (trans. Edwin Honig) |
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315 | (1) |
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The ancients used to invoke (trans. Jonathan Griffin) |
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316 | (1) |
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Fernando Pessoa, Autopsychography |
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316 | (3) |
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319 | (2) |
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines (trans. W. S. Merwin) |
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319 | (1) |
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Ars Poetica (trans. Nathaniel Tarm) |
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320 | (1) |
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) |
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321 | (2) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (2) |
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Regarding Art (trans. Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk) |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (1) |
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He Opens Wide a Third Eye...(trans. Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping) |
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325 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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Daniel David Moses (b. 1952) |
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326 | (3) |
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327 | (1) |
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Illustration M. C. Escher, Drawing Hands |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
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329 | (54) |
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Mother Courage and Her Children (trans. Ralph Manheim) |
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331 | (52) |
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Map. Holy Roman Empire, 1648) |
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332 | (50) |
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Map. European Theater, World War II |
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382 | (1) |
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PERSPECTIVES Echoes of War |
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383 | (87) |
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Map. Pacific Theater, World War II |
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384 | (1) |
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385 | (2) |
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I Beg You, Brother: Do Not Die (trans. Jay Rubin) |
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386 | (1) |
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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) |
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387 | (1) |
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387 | (1) |
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388 | (1) |
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388 | (3) |
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388 | (1) |
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389 | (1) |
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390 | (1) |
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Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) |
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391 | (16) |
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Patriotism (trans. Geoffrey Sargeant) |
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392 | (15) |
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407 | (2) |
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The Two Flags (trans. Raymond Rosenthal) |
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407 | (2) |
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409 | (2) |
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Illustration. Pablo Picasso, Guernica |
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410 | (1) |
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Death Fugue (trans. Joachim Neugroschel) |
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410 | (1) |
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Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) |
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411 | (2) |
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Report from the Besieged City (trans. John and Bogdana Carpenter) |
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412 | (1) |
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Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) |
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413 | (8) |
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Like the Night (trans. F. Partridge) |
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414 | (7) |
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421 | (2) |
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Gioconda and SI-YA-U (trans. Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk) |
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422 | (1) |
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) |
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423 | (5) |
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Youth in an Austrian Town (trans. Michael Bullock) |
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423 | (5) |
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Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) |
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428 | (5) |
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Seven Laments for the War-Dead (Trans. Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell) |
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428 | (3) |
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Little Ruth (trans. Barbara and Benjamin Harsbav) |
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431 | (1) |
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432 | (1) |
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
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433 | (37) |
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435 | (35) |
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PERSPECTIVES Cosmopolitan Exiles |
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470 | (68) |
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Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) |
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470 | (3) |
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Agape (trans. Richard Schaaf and Kathleen Ross) |
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471 | (1) |
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Our Daily Bread (trans. Richard Schaaf and Kathleen Ross) |
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471 | (1) |
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Good Sense (trnas. Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia) |
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472 | (1) |
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Black Stone on a White Stone (trans. Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia) |
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473 | (1) |
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
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473 | (4) |
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An Evening of Russian Poetry |
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474 | (3) |
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Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) |
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477 | (6) |
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Child of Europe (trans. Jan Darowski) |
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478 | (3) |
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Encounter (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallu) |
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481 | (1) |
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Dedication (trans. Czeslaw Milosz) |
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481 | (1) |
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Fear-Dream (trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass) |
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482 | (1) |
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483 | (8) |
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from Prologue to an Autobiography |
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483 | (8) |
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Adonis (Ali Ahmad SA'ID) (b. 1930) |
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491 | (3) |
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A Mirror for Khalida (trans. Samuel Hazo) |
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492 | (1) |
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493 | (1) |
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
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494 | (19) |
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The Garden of Forking Paths (trans. Andrew Hurley) |
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495 | (6) |
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The Library of Babel (trans. Andrew Hurley) |
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501 | (5) |
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Borges and I (trans. Andre2 Hurley) |
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506 | (1) |
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The Cult of the Phoenix (trans. Andrew Hurley) |
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507 | (2) |
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The Web (trans. Alistair Reid) |
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509 | (4) |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I Sell My Dreams (trans. Edith Grossman) |
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510 | (3) |
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Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006 |
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513 | (25) |
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Zaabalawi (trans. Denys Johnson-Davies) |
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516 | (7) |
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The Arabian Nights and Days (trans. Denys Johnson-Davies) |
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523 | (15) |
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523 | (1) |
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524 | (1) |
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524 | (2) |
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526 | (1) |
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527 | (11) |
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PERSPECTIVES The Thousand and One Nights in the Twentieth Century |
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538 | (120) |
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538 | (9) |
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539 | (8) |
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547 | (26) |
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547 | (26) |
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Italo Calvino (1923-1985) |
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573 | (5) |
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from Invisible Cities (trans. William Weaver) |
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573 | (5) |
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578 | (7) |
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from A Sister to Sheherazade (trans. Dorothy Blair) |
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578 | (6) |
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The Thousand and One Nights in the Twentieth Century |
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584 | (1) |
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Leopole Sedar Senghor (1906-2001) |
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585 | (5) |
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Letter to a Poet (trans. Melvin Dixon) |
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586 | (1) |
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Nocturne (She Flies she Flies) (trans. John Reed and Clive Wake) |
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587 | (1) |
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Black Woman (trans, Norman R. Shapiro) |
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587 | (1) |
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To New Your (trans, Melvin Dixon) |
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588 | (1) |
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Correspondence (trans, Melvin Dixon) |
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589 | (1) |
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590 | (27) |
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land |
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(trans. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith) |
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591 | (26) |
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James Baldwin (1924--1987) |
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617 | (25) |
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Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown |
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619 | (3) |
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622 | (20) |
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642 | (16) |
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644 | (6) |
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650 | (8) |
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Illustration, David P. Bradley , The Sante Fe Collector |
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651 | (7) |
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PERSPECTIVES Indigenous Cultures in the Twentieth Century |
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658 | (59) |
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Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993) |
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659 | (2) |
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660 | (1) |
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661 | (11) |
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Paula Gunn Allen (b. 1939) |
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669 | (1) |
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Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe |
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670 | (1) |
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Taking A Visitor to See the Ruins |
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671 | (1) |
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Leslie Marmon Silko Silko (b. 1948) |
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672 | (7) |
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673 | (6) |
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N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) |
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679 | (6) |
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from The Way to Rainy Mountain |
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680 | (5) |
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685 | (2) |
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685 | (1) |
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Illustration Grey Cohoe. Battle of the Butterflies at Tocito |
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686 | (1) |
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Ibrahim AL-Kuni (b. 1948) |
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687 | (6) |
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The Golden Bird of Misfortune (trans, Denys Johnson-Davies) |
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688 | (4) |
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Indigenous Culture s in the Twentieth Century |
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692 | (1) |
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Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang) (1920-1995) |
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693 | (5) |
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693 | (5) |
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698 | (19) |
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Breast-Giver (trans, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) |
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699 | (18) |
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PERSPECTIVES Gendered Spaces |
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717 | (198) |
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Illustration Ulrike Rosenbach, To Have No Power Is to Have Power |
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718 | (1) |
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Clarice Lispector (1925-1977) |
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718 | (7) |
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Preciousness (trans. Govanni Pontier) |
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719 | (6) |
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Fatima Mernissi (b. 1940) |
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725 | (4) |
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725 | (4) |
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729 | (11) |
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730 | (10) |
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Hanan Al-Shaykh (b. 1945) |
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740 | (5) |
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A Season of Madness (trans. Catherine Cobbam) |
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741 | (4) |
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Illustration Louise Bourgeois. Femme Couteau )(``Knife Woman'') |
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745 | (1) |
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745 | (12) |
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from Makbara (trans, Helen Lane) |
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746 | (11) |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) |
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757 | (4) |
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Artificial Roses (trans J. S. Bernstein0 |
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757 | (4) |
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Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) |
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761 | (4) |
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762 | (2) |
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764 | (1) |
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765 | (102) |
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767 | (1) |
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768 | (82) |
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from The African Writer and the English Language |
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850 | (17) |
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o: from The Language of African Literature |
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855 | (8) |
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Mbwil a M. Ngal: from Giambatista Viko; or The Rape of African Discourse (tans David Damrosch) |
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863 | (3) |
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Jeremy Cronin: To Learn how to speak... |
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866 | (1) |
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867 | (48) |
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Death and the King's Horseman |
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868 | (47) |
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Illustration. Obiora Udechukwu, Silent Faces at Crossroads |
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906 | (9) |
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PERSPECTIVES Postcolonial Conditions |
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915 | (52) |
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Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) |
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916 | (10) |
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917 | (9) |
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926 | (6) |
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In the Aging City (trans. Patricia Alanah Byrne and Naomi Shihab Nge) |
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927 | (2) |
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929 | (1) |
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Face Lost in the Wildernes |
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930 | (2) |
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Mahmoud Darwish (b. 1941) |
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932 | (10) |
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A Poem Which Is Not Green, from My Country (trans. Jan Wedde and Fawwaz Tuqan) |
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933 | (1) |
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Diary of a Palestinian Wound (trans. Ian Wedde and Fawwaz Tuqan) |
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934 | (3) |
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Sirhan Drinks His Coffee in the Cafeteria (trans. Rana Kabbani) |
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937 | (3) |
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940 | (1) |
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941 | (1) |
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911-1984) |
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942 | (3) |
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Blackout (trans. Naomi Lazard) |
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943 | (1) |
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944 | (1) |
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944 | (1) |
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945 | (2) |
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945 | (1) |
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Answers to an Interrogation |
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946 | (1) |
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Farough Faroghzad (1935-1967) |
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947 | (2) |
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A Poem for you (trans. Jascha Kessler) |
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948 | (1) |
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949 | (8) |
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950 | (1) |
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951 | (1) |
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952 | (5) |
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957 | (10) |
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957 | (9) |
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966 | (1) |
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OERSPECTIVES Literature, Technology, and Media |
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967 | (70) |
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Mario Vargas Liosa (b. 1936) |
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968 | (22) |
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from The Storyteller (trans. Helen Lane) |
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969 | (21) |
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990 | (6) |
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from Accident: A Day's News (trans. Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian) |
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991 | (5) |
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Abdelrahman Munif (1933-2004) |
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996 | (12) |
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from Cities of Salt (trans. Peter Theroux) |
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997 | (11) |
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Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) |
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1008 | (13) |
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TV People (trans. Alfred Birnbaum) |
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1009 | (2) |
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Illustration. Nam June Paik, Global Encoder |
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1011 | (10) |
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1021 | (16) |
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1022 | (13) |
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Literature, Technology, and Media |
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|
1035 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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1037 | (10) |
Credits |
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1047 | (6) |
Index |
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1053 | |