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Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in psychoanalytic and feminist criticism, the book examines how polygamous privilege functions in these novels and provides one of the first…

A life-long resident of Lawrence, Kansas, Ms. Dillard graduated from the University of Kansas in 1896. She began her teaching career in Lawrence at Pinckney School for their segregated class of African American students. Later, she served as…

Poema de Chile. Santiago de Chile: Pomaire, 1967. Print.

Tala; Lagar. Ed. Nuria Girona. Madrid: Cátedra, 2001. Print.

Desolación: Texto Completo. Prologue Roque Esteban Scarpa, et al. Barcelona: Andrés Bello, 2000. Print.

A historical play set in the Kenya coastal town of Mombasa during the Portuguese occupation. The story revolves around a local potentate, Hassan bin Yusuf, who attempts without success to avoid war with the Portuguese. It is the only Kenyan Swahili…

Mo Yan, was born in 1955 in Gaomi Township in Shandong Province, a rural area that is the setting for much of his fiction. Mo Yan ("don't speak") is a pseudonym for Guan Moye on the advice of his parents as a school-age boy during the Mao era. The…

Big Breasts and Wide Hips: a Novel. Trans. Howard Goldblatt. New York: Arcade Pub, 2004. Print.

Garlic Ballads. Trans. Howard Goldblatt. New York: Viking,1995. Print.

Red Sorghum: a Novel of China. Trans. Howard Goldblatt. New York: Viking,…

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