CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS = xvii
INTRODUCTION = 1
PART Ⅰ : AFRICA
WEST AFRICA
Amos Tutuola
From My Life in the Bush of Ghosts = 12
Chinua Achebe
1 : From Arrow of God = 15
2 : From What Has Literature Got to Do with It? = 21
3 : From Anthills of the Savannah = 26
Christopher Okigbo
Siren Limits = 30
Wole Soyinka
1 : Abiku = 33
2 : From The Lion and the Jewel = 34
Buchi Emecheta
From The Joys of Motherhood = 44
Niyi Osundare
Harvestcall = 50
Ben Okri
Incidents at the Shrine = 52
Ama Ata Aidoo
1 : The Message = 60
2 : Motherhood and the Numbers Game = 66
EAST AFRICA
Okot p'Bitek
From Song of Lawino = 68
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
1 : From A Grain of Wheat = 73
2 : From Decolonising the Mind = 79
M. G. Vassanji
Leaving = 83
Abdulrazak Gurnah
From Paradise = 88
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Nadine Gordimer
Six Feet of the Country = 96
Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
From Sizwe Bansi is Dead = 104
Lauretta Ngcobo
From And They Didn't Die = 111
Mbulelo Mzamane
My Cousin Comes to Jo'burg = 117
J. M. Coetzee
From Foe = 123
Bessie Head
From A Question of Power = 131
Tsitsi Dangarembga
From Nervous Conditions = 137
NORTH AFRICA
Jamal Mahjoub
From Navigation of a Rainmaker = 145
PART Ⅱ : AUSTRALIA
Charles Harpur
A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest = 150
Marcus Clarke
Preface to Poems of the Late Adam Lindsay Gordon = 151
Adam Lindsay Gordon
The Sick Stockrider = 154
Henry Kendall
The Last of His Tribe = 157
A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson
The Man from Snowy River = 158
Henry Lawson
1 : The Drover's Wife = 162
2 : Middleton's Rouseabout = 168
Mary Gilmore
Old Botany Bay = 169
Bernard O'Dowd
Australia = 170
'Steele Rudd'(Arthur Hoey Davis)
Starting the Selection = 171
Barbara Baynton
The Chosen Vessel = 173
Miles Franklin
From My Brilliant Career = 178
'Henry Handel Richardson'(Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson)
Proem to Australia Felix = 185
Kenneth Slessor
1 : South Country = 192
2 : The Night Ride = 192
A. D. Hope
Australia = 193
James McAuley
Terra Australis = 194
Christina Stead
The Schoolboy's Tale : Day of Wrath = 195
Patrick White
1 : The Prodigal Son = 196
2 : From The Tree of Man = 200
Judith Wright
Train Journey = 207
Ray Lawler
From Summer of the Seventeenth Doll = 208
Alan Seymour
From The One Day of the Year = 218
Oodgeroo Noonuccal(Kath Walker)
We Are Going = 223
Gwen Harwood
Suburban Sonnet = 224
Peter Porter
Phar Lap in the Melbourne Museum = 225
Les Murray
1 : Blood = 226
2 : Quintets for Robert Morley = 228
Bruce Dawe
1 : Life-Cycle = 229
2 : Homecoming = 231
Dorothy Hewett
From Testament = 232
David Williamson
From The Club = 233
Peter Carey
'Do You Love Me?' = 244
John Tranter
From The False Atlas = 252
Murray Bail
The Drover's Wife = 255
Frank Moorhouse
The Drover's Wife = 259
Barbara Jefferis
The Drover's Wife = 265
Mudrooroo Narogin(Colin Johnson)
They Give Jacky Rights = 273
Jack Davis
From Kullark = 273
Helen Garner
The Life of Art = 279
Robert Drewe
Stingray = 284
Sally Morgan
A Black Grandmother = 288
Kate Grenville
From Joan Makes History = 294
Tim Winton
Neighbours = 298
David Malouf
From Remembering Babylon = 301
PART Ⅲ : CANADA
Frances Brooke
From The History of Emily Montague = 310
Major John Richardson
From Wacousta = 312
Catharine Parr Traill
From The Backwoods of Canada = 314
Sara Jeannette Duncan
From The Imperialist = 319
Bliss Carman
Low Tide on Grand Pr$$\acute e$$ = 321
Stephen Leacock
From Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town = 322
Emily Carr
From Klee Wyck = 326
E. J. Pratt
From Br$$\acute e$$beuf and His Brethren = 331
Sinclair Ross
From As for Me and My House = 334
Hugh MacLennan
From Barometer Rising = 338
Elizabeth Smart
From By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept = 343
Earle Birney
1 : Bushed = 345
2 : Mappemounde = 346
James Reaney
Maps = 347
Al Purdy
1 : Elegy for a Grandfather = 348
2 : Roblin's Mills = 349
Eli Mandel
'Grandfather's Painting' : David Thauberger = 351
George Bowering
Grandfather = 352
Margaret Laurence
From The Diviners = 353
Margaret Atwood
1 : Progressive insanities of a Pioneer = 356
2 : From Survival : A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature = 359
3 : The Age of Lead = 362
4 : Morning in the Burned House = 373
Gwendolyn MacEwen
From Terror and Erebus = 374
Robertson Davies
From Fifth Business = 376
Phyllis Webb
Marvell's Garden = 381
Robert Kroetsch
1 : Stone Hammer Poem = 383
2 : From The Moment of the Discovery of America Continues = 387
Alice Munro
The Photographer = 392
Ruby Wiebe
Where is the Voice Coming From? = 400
Alistair MacLeod
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun = 407
Audrey Thomas
From Intertidal Life = 412
Daphne Marlatt
From Ana Historic = 415
Timothy Findley
From Lemonade = 416
Thomas King
The One about Coyote Going West = 420
Jeannette C. Armstrong
This Is a Story = 428
Bonnie Burnard
Music Lessons = 433
Susan Swan
From The Biggest Modern Woman of the World = 437
George Elliott Clarke
How Exile Melts to One Hundred Roses = 443
Aritha van Herk
From No Fixed Address = 444
Evelyn Lau
From Fresh Girls = 447
PART Ⅳ : CARIBBEAN
C. L. R. James
From Beyond a Boundary = 452
Louise Bennett
Dear Departed Federation = 456
Jean Rhys
1 : The Day They Burned the Books = 457
2 : I Used to Live Here Once = 462
V. S. Reid
From New Day = 463
Roger Mais
From Brother Man = 468
George Lamming
1 : From In the Castle of My Skin = 472
2 : From The Pleasures of Exile = 477
Sam Selvon
From The Lonely Londoners = 482
V. S. Naipaul
1 : Man-man = 483
2 : From A House for Mr Biswas = 488
Derek Walcott
1 : Ruins of a Great House = 498
2 : From Dream on Monkey Mountain = 500
3 : From The Muse of History = 512
4 : From Omeros = 519
Wilson Harris
1 : From Palace of the Peacock = 524
2 : From Tradition and the West Indian Novel = 532
Denis Williams
From Other Leopards = 537
The Mighty Sparrow(Slinger Francisco)
Dan is the Man in the Van = 543
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite
1 : Ananse = 545
2 : Negus = 548
3 : From History of the Voice = 550
Mervyn Morris
1 : The Pond = 554
2 : Narcissus = 554
Michael Gilkes
From Prospero's Island = 555
Earl Lovelace
From The Dragon Can't Dance = 556
Erna Brodber
From Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home = 560
Zee Edgell
From Beka Lamb = 565
Jamaica Kincaid
In the Night = 569
Olive Senior
Summer Lightning = 572
Lorna Goodison
I Am Becoming My Mother = 579
John Agard
Mek Four = 579
Valerie Bloom
Language Barrier = 580
Grace Nichols
One Continent／To Another = 582
Jean 'Binta' Breeze
Spring Cleaning = 583
PART Ⅴ : NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH PACIFIC
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party = 588
Mary Ursula Bethell
Pause = 599
R. A. K. Mason
On the Swag = 599
A. R. D. Fairburn
1 : Imperial = 600
2 : Tapu = 602
Robin Hyde
The Last Ones = 602
Allen Curnow
1 : House and Land = 603
2 : Landfall in Unknown Seas = 604
James Baxter
1 : On the Death of Her Body = 607
2 : Jerusalem Sonnet, Ⅰ = 607
3 : The Ikons = 608
Hone Tuwhare
Speak to Me, Brother = 609
Frank Sargeson
I've Lost My Pal = 611
Janet Frame
From Faces in the Water = 614
Witi Ihimaera
1 : The Whale = 620
2 : This Life is Weary = 627
Albert Wendt
1 : A Resurrection = 636
2 : Towards a New Oceania = 641
Keri Hulme
From The Bone People = 652
Patricia Grace
From Potiki = 660
Epeli Hau'ofa
The Seventh and Other Days = 665
Bill Manhire
From South Pacific = 669
Subramani
Marigolds = 675
PART Ⅵ : SOUTH ASIA
INDIA
Mulk Raj Anand
From Untouchable 684
R. K. Narayan
From The Man-Eater of Malgudi = 688
Raja Rao
From Kanthapura = 696
Attia Hosain
Gossamer Thread = 703
Nissim Ezekiel
1 : Background, Casually = 708
2 : The Patriot = 710
Dom Moraes
Sinbad = 711
A. K. Ramanujan
Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House = 712
Jayanta Mahapatra
Grandfather = 715
Kamala Das
An Introduction = 717
Keki Daruwalla
Death of a Bird = 718
Nayantara Sahgal
Martand = 720
Anita Desai
From In Custody = 725
Eunice De Souza
1 : Marriages Are Made = 734
2 : Women in Dutch Paintings = 735
Salman Rushdie
From Midnight's Children = 735
Amitav Ghosh
From The Shadow Lines = 741
Vikram Seth
From A Suitable Boy = 747
Agha Shahid Ali
1 : Postcard from Kashmir = 752
2 : A Wrong Turn = 752
Sujata Bhatt
A Different History = 753
Meena Alexander
House of a Thousand Doors = 754
Githa Hariharan
The Remains of the Feast = 755
SRI LANKA
Patrick Fernando
The Fisherman Mourned by His Wife = 761
Yasmine Gooneratne
1 : Big Match, 1983 = 762
2 : This Language, This Woman = 764
Punyakante Wijenaike
From Giraya = 765
Lakdasa Wikkramasinha
Don't Talk to Me about Matisse = 771
Jean Arasanayagam
Passages = 772
Rajiva Wijesinha
From Days of Despair = 774
Richard De Zoysa
Apocalypse Soon = 778
Shyam Selvadurai
From Funny Boy = 780
BANGLADESH
Kaiser Haq
A Myth Reworked = 784
PAKISTAN
Ahmed Ali
From Twilight in Delhi = 786
Bapsi Sidhwa
From Ice-Candy-Man = 790
Alamgir Hashmi
1 : So What If I Live in a House Made by Idiots? = 798
2 : Inland = 798
PART Ⅶ : SOUTH-EAST ASIA
MALAYSIA
Lloyd Fernando
From Scorpion Orchid = 802
Lee Kok Liang
Five Fingers = 809
Ee Tiang Hong
1 : Heeren Street, Malacca = 812
2 : Arrival = 813
Wong Phui Nam
Prospect in Spring = 814
Mohamad Bin Haji Salleh
Do Not Say = 814
K. S. Maniam
From The Return = 816
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
1 : Christmas in Exile = 822
2 : On Reading Coleridge's Poem = 822
SINGAPORE
Edwin Thumboo
Gods Can Die = 823
Lee Tzu Pheng
Excluding Byzantium : On Objections to Living Near a Home for the Elderly Sick = 824
Philip Jeyaretnam
Making Coffee = 825
THE PHILIPPINES
Nick Joaquin
From The Woman Who Had Two Navels = 829
THAILAND
S. P. Somtow
From Jasmine Nights = 834
PART Ⅷ : TRANS-CULTURAL WRITING
Louise Bennett
Colonisation in Reverse = 844
Sam Selvon
Working the Transport = 845
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Myself in India = 849
Zulfikar Ghose
1 : This Landscape, These People = 856
2 : The Attack on Sialkot = 858
V. S. Naipaul
From A Way in the World = 860
Anne Ranasinghe
At What Dark Point = 865
Joy Kogawa
From Obasan = 867
Daphne Marlatt
Arriving at Shared Ground Through Difference = 874
Bharati Mukherjee
Loose Ends = 875
Yasmine Gooneratne
Bharat Changes His Image = 883
Rienzi Crusz
Roots = 892
Michael Ondaatje
1 : From Running in the Family = 892
2 : From In the Skin of a Lion = 894
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Doun de Road = 897
David Dabydeen
Two Cultures = 898
Salman Rushdie
From Imaginary Homelands = 899
Fred D'Aguiar
Letter from Mama Dot = 902
M. Nourbese Philip
She Tries Her Tongue : Her Silence Softly Breaks = 904
Caryl Phillips
From Crossing the River = 905
Rohinton Mistry
Squatter = 907
FURTHER READING = 926
AUTHOR INDEX = 930
TITLE INDEX = 933
