Product Description: Designed to encourage readers to read and think critically, compassionately, and globally, this comprehensive collection of contemporary writing in English spotlights English as an international literary language. The broad range of genres from some of the world's finest writers, cross diverse gender, generational and ethnic lines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.It contains approximately eighty texts and extracts from countries andcontinents including:*Africa*Australia*Great Britain*India*Malaysia*New Zealand*Philippines*SingaporeDesigned as course for both native and non-native English-speakers in how to read literature, this anthology begins with shorter starter texts and questions, and develops in complexity as the reader progresses through the book...read more

Product Description: This text presents art and writing which is political rather than theorizing about how art and writing might be political. The wide array of voices and styles is one of the book's strengths as it not only offers a multi-faceted approach toward activism and positive change, but also speaks a range of emotions from anger, passion, and fear, to joy and courage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides a sampling of the diverse literatures of Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific, including excerpts from novels, poems, short stories, and prose (view table of contents)