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Subject: World Literature

New Intersections: Essays on Culture and Literature in the Post-Modern and Post-Colonial Condition
	de Toro, Fernando Subject: Latin America	These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late nineteenth-century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of twentieth-century Modernist and Post-Modernist literary production. New Intersections is a hard-hitting, argumentative collection of essays which … More Information

Old New Land
	Herzl, Theodor (edited by Jacques Kornberg) Subject: Middle East, World History, World Literature, Jewish Studies	The first publication of Old New Land in 1902 forever altered the world’s perception of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and zionist ideas … More Information

Passage from Home: The Erotic Awakening of a Young Intellectual
	Rosenfeld, Isaac (edited by Jonathan D. Sarna; introduction by Mark Shechner) Subject: World Literature	This outstanding family novel, set in a Jewish neighborhood of Chicago, is “the fullest articulation of the generational conflict between Jewish fathers and [sins],” writes Alexander Bloom in his 1986 book Prodigal Sons. The central character, a 15-year-old boy in … More Information

Pathetic Symphony: A Biographical Novel About Tchaikovsky
	Mann, Klaus Subject: World Literature	Like Mephisto, Pathetic Symphony is a novel about important artists and their milieu. Drawing his material from documented sources, and without ever distorting historical truth or sacrificing biographical accuracy for the sake of the narrative, Klaus Mann here presents a … More Information

Political Cartoons in the Middle East
	Göçek, Fatma Müge Subject: Middle East	The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported Western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal … More Information

Posmodernismo y Teatro en América Latina: Teorías y Practícas en el Umbral del Siglo XXI
	Rizk, Beatriz J. Subject: Latin America, World Literature	Main topics in contemporary Latin American theater include feminism, minorities and other marginalized people, and mixed genres and performances. In this work, Beatriz J. Rizk examines the impact of these topics on styles of Latin American expression on the threshold … More Information

Reflections on a Puerto Rican Life: Benjy Lopez: A Picaresque Tale of Emigration and Return
	Levine, Barry B. Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	Hailed as a “masterpiece” in Newsweek magazine by Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, the life history of Benjy Lopez is now available in an expanded edition which includes his return to and life in Puerto Rico as a successful … More Information

Shaihu Umar: Trans-Saharan Slave Trade in Africa
	Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa, Alhaji (edited by Beverly Mack; translated by Mervyn Hiskett) Subject: Africa, World Literature, History of Slavery	Northern Nigeria, just before the turn of the century: a time of unrest and civil war, when the trans-Saharan slave trade still flourished. Against this turbulent backdrop is set the story of the Hausa, a black African people who practice … More Information

Stella: The Epic Saga of the Haitian Revolution
	Bergeaud, Emeric (translated by Adriana Umaña Hossman; introduction by Luis Duno-Gottberg) Subject: Caribbean, Latin America: Colonialism, World Literature	Emeric Bergeaud’s Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the thirteen years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga: the novel’s chapter headings refer to major events … More Information

The Book of Strangers: Medieval Arabic Graffiti on the Theme of Nostalgia
	Crone, Patricia and Shmuel Moreh, editors Subject: Middle East	A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the past took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travelers and others who did not feel at home where they were in order to console himself. Some of the graffiti … More Information