Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part 1: Modernism (1900-1945)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

“The Cabuliwallah”

Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978)

“Field Hospital and Flying Column”

Lu Xun (1881-1936)

Diary of a Madman

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

The Metamorphosis

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

The Garden Party

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)

Why Is This Century Worse…

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Strange Meeting

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Dulce et Decorum est

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

The Weary Blues

Theme for English B

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Mother Courage and Her Children

Jorge Luis Borges (The Wolf)

Part 2: Postcolonial Literature

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008)

from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

The Woman and the Flame

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

Things Fall Apart

Joy Harjo (1951- )

An American Sunrise

My House Is the Red Earth

A Poem to Get Rid of Fear

When the World as We Knew It Ended

Part 3: Contemporary Literature (1955-present)

Ben Okri (I sing a new freedom)

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Brown Love)

Quique Avilés (My tongue is divided into two)

Richard Michelson (Elijah vs. Santa)

Kendel Hippolyte (Creation)

Wislawa Szymborska (The End and the Beginning)

Jean Arasanayagam (Apocalypse)

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)

from Midaq Alley

Hwang Sok-Yang (Camel’s Eye)

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)

An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

Eye of a Blue Dog

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Derek Walcott (1930-2017)

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

The Haw Lantern

The Tollund Man

Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)

Victim Number 18

Salman Rushdie (1947- )

The Perforated Sheet

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )

Li-Young Lee (The Gift)

Haruki Murakami (1949- )

The Second Bakery Attack

Nick Carbó (Little Brown Brother)

Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )

Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016)

“Mexican” Is Not a Noun

To Those Who Have Lost Everything

Landmarks

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