Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in EnglishVictor J. Ramraj Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in a wide-ranging anthology of world literature in English. The collection includes a number of established writers who despite their great reputations, have often been perceived as standing apart from the main currents of English literature (and have rarely found their way into English Department reading lists). Most selections, though, are by a remarkable range of much less established authors. In addition to the selections, the editor has provided a general introduction and a brief biographical note on each author. "The intention in Concert of Voices is both to provide an alternative text to anthologies of traditional and established writings (in which the new writings in English invariably are displaced and marginalized) and to complement these anthologies. In this regard, the word 'other'—which points up apartness and division—was found wanting and dropped from the provisional main title. Its omission draws attention to a concept (and conviction) operative in the construction of the anthology: despite historical and cultural specificities (the focus of cross-cultural and multicultural studies), commonalities and affinities exist among these writings and between writing on both sides of the hegemonic divide. The anthology, then, is not intended simply as an offering of sociological or anthropological insights into these 'different' peoples. The pieces in Concert of Voices also demonstrate that imaginative writings can evolve from a cocoon of particularities into what can be called—modifying a catch-phrase of certain other disciplines—Literature Without Borders." - from the introduction |
Contents
Ama Ata Aidoo Ghana | 14 |
Agha Shahid Ali Pakistan | 29 |
Mulk Raj Anand India | 30 |
Ven Begamudré IndiaCanada | 38 |
Anancy an Ticks | 47 |
Gerry Bostock Australia | 60 |
Dionne Brand TrinidadCanada | 69 |
Buhkwujjenene Canada | 77 |
Timothy Mo Hong KongUK | 268 |
Tololwa Marti Mollel TanzaniaCanada | 273 |
Mervyn Morris Jamaica | 283 |
Eskia Mphahlele South Africa | 286 |
Bharati Mukherjee IndiaUSA | 292 |
S Naipaul TrinidadUK | 300 |
Return to a Certain Darkness essay | 312 |
R K Narayan India | 323 |
Willi Chen Trinidad | 78 |
Saros Cowasjee IndiaCanada | 98 |
Fred DAguiar GuyanaUK | 104 |
The New Poetry | 109 |
Manoj Das India | 113 |
Eunice de Souza India | 129 |
Lorna Goodison Jamaica | 132 |
Nadine Gordimer South Africa | 133 |
Claire Harris TrinidadCanada | 140 |
Wilson Harris GuyanaUK | 145 |
Bessie Head South Africa | 152 |
Keri Hulme New Zealand | 170 |
Witi Ihimaera New Zealand | 181 |
Sally Ito Canada | 186 |
Arnold Itwaru GuyanaCanada | 189 |
Sunita Jain India | 191 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala IndiaUSA | 194 |
Jamaica Kincaid AntiguaUSA | 204 |
Jamaica Kincaid AntiguaUSA | 209 |
Thomas King Canada | 214 |
Shirley Geoklin Lim MalaysiaUSA | 218 |
Jayanta Mahapatra India | 220 |
Lee Maracle Canada | 222 |
Dambudzo Marechera Zimbabwe | 229 |
Pauline Melville GuyanaUK | 235 |
Sudesh Mishra Fiji | 247 |
Rohinton Mistry IndiaCanada | 248 |
Mudrooroo Narogin formerly Colin Johnson Australia | 327 |
Ngitji Ngitji formerly Mona Tur Australia | 344 |
Oodgeroo Noonuccal formerly Kath Walker Australia | 353 |
Gabriel Okara Nigeria | 355 |
Michael Ondaatje Sri LankaCanada | 357 |
Sasenarine Persaud GuyanaCanada | 360 |
Jean Rhys DominicaUK | 364 |
Salman Rushdie IndiaUK | 366 |
Samuel Selvon TrinidadUKCanada | 374 |
Olive Senior Jamaica | 385 |
Vikram Seth India | 397 |
Philip Sherlock Jamaica | 401 |
Wole Soyinka Nigeria | 414 |
Subramani Fiji | 438 |
Mary Tall Mountain USA | 447 |
Edwin Thumboo Singapore | 448 |
G Vassanji TanzaniaCanada | 450 |
Alafina Vuki Fiji | 459 |
Derek Walcott St Lucia | 462 |
Albert Wendt Western SamoaNew Zealand | 466 |
May Wong Singapore | 473 |
Poetry | 477 |
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