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Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership. The essays in the collection are organized along three major axes: contextual articles, placing Charles' work within the larger Haitian literary landscape, punctual articles, addressing specific themes in a selection of Charles' books, and author testimonials, attesting to Charles' work's importance both to his contemporaries and to a new generation of writers. With the ongoing republication of Charles' work by Mémoire d'encrier in Montreal, and the increasing interest in the author, the proposed volume is timely and necessary, and is in large part a critical accompaniment to the republishing programme. Described by Dany Laferrière as "most brilliant Haitian author of his generation," Charles has until recently remained largely unread and little understood. As the various chapters in the volume show, Charles is an author for now, and the collection will accompany readers seeking strikingly original insights on issues such as race, migration, and exile, and the role of the author and literature in times of crisis.
Haitian literature --- race studies --- global literature --- transnational literature --- thought --- Jean-Claude Charles --- enracinerrance --- Haiti --- migration --- race --- English literature --- History and criticism.
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Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani's award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.
Poetry, Modern --- Literature and globalization. --- History and criticism --- Literature and globalization --- Globalization --- Globalization and literature --- History and criticism. --- cosmopolitanism. --- global literature. --- globalization. --- lyric. --- modernism. --- poetry. --- postcolonial. --- transnational poetics. --- twentieth-century poetry. --- world literature.
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In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.
North African literature. --- african literature. --- african poetry. --- al andalus. --- algeria. --- anthology. --- arabo berber literature. --- book club reads. --- global literature. --- historical survey. --- historical. --- jewish literature. --- libya. --- lit analysis. --- lit students. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary studies. --- literary. --- literature and culture. --- maghreb. --- mauritania. --- morocco. --- north africa. --- north african poets. --- oral literatures. --- poetry collection. --- spain. --- tunisia. --- world poetry.
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A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) but he has a warm regard for the real virtues of antiquity and for those who spoke with "an individual voice."The studies cover both history and literature, Greece and Rome. They range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without laboring any parallels, make the ancient world immediately relevant to our own. (There is, for example, a very perceptive essay on how classical history often becomes a vehicle for the historian's own political beliefs and fantasies of power.) The student of classical history will find plenty in this book to enrich his own studies. The general reader will enjoy the vision of a classical world which differs radically from what he probably expects.
Civilization, Ancient. --- Ancient civilization --- Greece --- Civilization --- ancient greece. --- ancient history. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- classical world. --- contemporary historians. --- criticism. --- democracy. --- essays. --- global influence. --- global literature. --- greece. --- greek history. --- greek society. --- historians. --- historical commentary. --- history and literature. --- history students. --- history. --- juvenal. --- literary criticism. --- modern historiography. --- nonfiction. --- parthenon. --- poetry. --- power struggle. --- roman history. --- roman society. --- sappho. --- scholars. --- world history. --- world literature.
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Children's literature --- Children --- Multicultural education --- Children's literature. --- Multicultural education. --- Study and teaching (Elementary) --- History and criticism --- Books and reading. --- Intercultural education --- Education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Books and reading for children --- Reading interests of children --- global literature --- education --- teaching --- children's literature --- young adult literature --- classroom practice --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy
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This is the first English translation of one of Korea's most celebrated historical works, a pre-modern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. Written in 1821 by Chong Yagyong (Tasan), Admonitions on Governing the People (Mongmin simso) is a detailed manual for district magistrates on how to govern better. In encyclopedic fashion, Chong Yagyong addresses the administration, social and economic life, criminal justice, the military, and the Confucian ritual system. He provides examples of past corrupt officials and discusses topics of the day such as famine relief and social welfare. A general call for overhauling the Korean ruling system, the book also makes the radical proposition that the purpose of government is to serve the interests of the people. This long-awaited translation opens a new window on early-nineteenth century Korea and makes available to a wide audience a work whose main concerns simultaneously transcend national and cultural boundaries.
Civil service ethics --- Local officials and employees --- Conduct of life. --- 1821. --- administrations. --- asian lit. --- confucianism. --- criminal justice. --- cultural boundaries. --- district magistrates. --- early 19th century. --- economics. --- encyclopedia reference. --- english translation. --- famine relief. --- famous literature. --- global literature. --- governance. --- government and governing. --- government. --- historical. --- korea. --- korean literature. --- korean military. --- korean ruling system. --- nonfiction. --- peoples government. --- political. --- premodern literature. --- ritual system. --- social history. --- social welfare.
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The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession and largely unknown as a poet until after his death. Since then his work has increasingly attracted a devoted following, especially among ecologists, Buddhists, and the literary avant-garde. This volume includes poems translated by Gary Snyder, who was the first to translate a substantial body of Miyazawa's work into English. Hiroaki Sato's own superb translations, many never before published, demonstrate his deep familiarity with Miyazawa's poetry. His remarkable introduction considers the poet's significance and suggests ways for contemporary readers to approach his work. It further places developments in Japanese poetry into a global context during the first decades of the twentieth century. In addition the book features a Foreword by the poet Geoffrey O'Brien and essays by Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yoshimasu Gozo, and Michael O'Brien.
POETRY / General. --- Miyazawa, Kenji, --- Miyāsāwa, Khēnčhi, --- Kenji, Miyazawa, --- 宮澤賢治, --- 宮沢賢治, --- 宮泽贤治, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- avant garde. --- buddhism. --- buddhist poets. --- buddhists. --- contemporary poetry. --- early 20th century. --- ecologists. --- english translation. --- global context. --- global literature. --- japanese literature. --- japanese modernism. --- japanese poetry. --- japanese poets. --- lit students. --- lit studies. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary movements. --- miyazawa kenji. --- modern literature. --- modernism. --- modernist poetry. --- poems. --- poetry collection. --- translated poetry.
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