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"Collection of songs, orations, myths, stories, legends, and other oral literatures from seven of the major language groups of the Great Plains: Muskogean, Uto-Aztecan, Caddoan, Siouan, Algonquian, Kiowa-Tanoan, and Athabascan"--Provided by publisher.

Indians of North America --- Folk literature, Indian --- Indian literature --- Indian literature (American Indian) --- Literature --- Indian folk literature --- Folklore. --- Indian authors

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Literatura colombiana --- Autores indígenas. --- Indian literature --- Historia y crítica. --- History and criticism.

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In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.

Caribbean fiction (English) --- West Indian fiction (English) --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- Carpentier, Alejo, --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- English fiction --- Caribbean literature (English) --- West Indian literature (English) --- West Indian authors --- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Menchú's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators. Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales.

Canon (Literature) --- Translating and interpreting. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Archetype. --- Author. --- Bei Dao. --- Berossus. --- Book of Job. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Critical theory. --- Cultural hegemony. --- Cultural homogenization. --- David Stoll. --- Decolonization. --- Determinative. --- Diary. --- Don Quixote. --- Edition (book). --- Editorial. --- En route (novel). --- English novel. --- English poetry. --- Enkidu. --- Epigraph (literature). --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Ethnography. --- Existentialism. --- Ezra Pound. --- Foray. --- Franz Kafka. --- G. (novel). --- Gilgamesh. --- Hack writer. --- Hafez. --- Hebraist. --- Historia Calamitatum. --- Historicism. --- How It Happened. --- Humbaba. --- Imperialism. --- Indian literature. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jingoism. --- John Barth. --- Liberation theology. --- Literary agent. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary realism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Louis Untermeyer. --- Malcolm Muggeridge. --- Mark Twain. --- Medieval Hebrew. --- Medieval Latin. --- Metafiction. --- Metonymy. --- Miguel Ángel Asturias. --- Misery (novel). --- Modernism. --- Narcissism. --- New Criticism. --- New Historicism. --- Northrop Frye. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Novelization. --- Orientalism. --- P. G. Wodehouse. --- People's history. --- Petrarchan sonnet. --- Phonocentrism. --- Picaresque novel. --- Poetry. --- Point of Origin (novel). --- Political fiction. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Preface. --- Prose. --- Psmith. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Religion. --- Romanticism. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Shakespeare's plays. --- Splintered (novel series). --- The New York Review of Books. --- The Tale of the Heike. --- The Teachings of Don Juan. --- Uqbar. --- Utnapishtim. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Warfare. --- Western literature. --- Westernization. --- World literature. --- Writer's block. --- Writing. --- Wyndham Lewis. --- Zionism.