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Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Six: The 20th Century and Contemporary Literature: The Women's Swimming Pool

Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Six: The 20th Century and Contemporary Literature
The Women's Swimming Pool
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  1. Unit 1: Modernism (1900-1945)
  2. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
    1. The Cabuliwallah
  3. Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
    1. Six Characters in Search of an Author
  4. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
    1. Swann's Way
  5. Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978)
    1. Field Hospital and Flying Column
  6. Lu Xun (1881-1936)
    1. Diary of a Madman
  7. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
    1. A Room of One's Own
  8. James Joyce (1882-1941)
    1. The Dead
  9. Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
    1. The Metamorphosis
  10. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
    1. The Garden Party
  11. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
    1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    2. Tradition and the Individual Talent
    3. The Waste Land
  12. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)
    1. Lot's Wife
    2. Requiem
    3. Why Is This Century Worse...
  13. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
    1. In a Grove
    2. Rashomon
  14. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
    1. Preface
    2. Strange Meeting
    3. Anthem for Doomed Youth
    4. Dulce et Decorum est
    5. Exposure
    6. Futility
    7. Parable of the Old Men and the Young
  15. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
    1. Barn Burning
    2. A Rose for Emily
  16. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
    1. Mother Courage and Her Children
  17. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
    1. The Garden of Forking Paths
  18. Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
    1. Harlem
    2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    3. Theme for English B
    4. The Weary Blues
  19. Yi Sang (1910-1937)
    1. Phantom Illusion
  20. Unit 2: Postcolonial Literature
  21. Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
    1. The Golden Threshold
  22. Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008)
    1. from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
    2. The Woman and the Flame
  23. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
    1. Things Fall Apart
  24. Cho Se-hui (1942- )
    1. Knifeblade
    2. A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf
    3. The Möbius Strip
  25. Joy Harjo (1951- )
    1. Eagle Poem
    2. An American Sunrise
    3. My House Is the Red Earth
    4. A Poem to Get Rid of Fear
    5. When the World as We Knew It Ended
  26. Unit 3: Contemporary Literature (1955-present)
  27. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
    1. from Midaq Alley
  28. Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
    1. An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion
    2. Jerusalem
  29. Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
    1. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  30. Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
    1. The Bounty
    2. from Omeros
  31. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
    1. The Haw Lantern
    2. The Tollund Man
  32. Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
    1. Identity Card
    2. Victim Number 18
  33. Hanan al-Shaykh (1945- )
    1. The Women's Swimming Pool
  34. Salman Rushdie (1947- )
    1. The Perforated Sheet
  35. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
    1. Yellow Woman
  36. Haruki Murakami (1949- )
    1. The Second Bakery Attack
  37. Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
    1. Girl
  38. Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016)
    1. "Mexican" Is Not a Noun
    2. Prayer
    3. To Those Who Have Lost Everything
  39. Yasmina Reza (1959- )
    1. God of Carnage

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