Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English - Softcover

"Concert of Voices is an impressively varied selection of first-rate writing from around the colonized and postcolonial world. Encouraging readers to see the shared commonalities of human experience across diverse literary and cultural traditions - from Maori to Guyanese, Nigerian to Sri Lankan - Victor J. Ramraj deftly juxtaposes works on similar themes and suggests rewarding comparative analyses. This concert features the frisson of dissonance as well as the pleasures of harmony; it will get students tuning in to the voices of the world and wanting to hear more." John Clement Ball, University of New Brunswick"

This new edition of Concert of Voices is distinctive for the variety of genres, styles, cultures, and eras represented. Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition's breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material. Biographical information and explanatory notes have been updated and expanded, and new pieces by Cyril Dabydeen, Vikram Seth, Wole Soyinka, Pauline Johnson, Rudy Wiebe, and many other authors have been added. It includes: more new material (the last edition was published in 1995); more material from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada; more nonfiction (essays, interviews, memoir); and, new indexes sort texts by titles, genres, and regions.