The Literature Book

319 See also: Playing for Thrills 336 F rom the late 20th century, globalization—in particular the spread of American popular cu ...

320 PERHAPS ONLY IN A WORLD OF THE BLIND WILL THINGS BE WHAT THEY TRULY ARE BLINDNESS (1995), JOSÉ SARAMAGO J osé Saramago’s har ...

321 See also: The Divine Comedy 62–65 ■ The Canterbury Tales 68–71 ■ Don Quixote 76–81 ■ Candide 96–97 ■ Gulliver’s Travels 104 ...

322 ENGLISH IS AN UNFIT MEDIUM FOR THE TRUTH OF SOUTH AFRICA DISGRACE (1999), J. M. COETZEE postmodern preoccupation with the la ...

323 See also: The Story of an African Farm 201 ■ Cry, the Beloved Country 286 ■ A Dry White Season 333–34 CONTEMPORARY LITERATUR ...

324 EVERY MOMENT HAPPENS TWICE: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE AND THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT HISTORIES WHITE TEETH (2000), ZADIE SMITH I mmigra ...

325 See also: Cry, the Beloved Country 286 ■ A House for Mr. Biswas 289 ■ Interpreter of Maladies 338 ■ Life of Pi 338 ■ The Kit ...

326 THE BEST WAY OF KEEPING A SECRET IS TO PRETEND THERE ISN’T ONE THE BLIND ASSASSIN (2000), MARGARET ATWOOD T he gothic fictio ...

327 See also: Frankenstein 120–21 ■ Dracula 195 ■ Wuthering Heights 132–37 ■ The Handmaid’s Tale 335 ■ Selected Stories (Alice M ...

328 THERE WAS SOMETHING HIS FAMILY WANTED TO FORGET THE CORRECTIONS (2001), JONATHAN FRANZEN T he title of Jonathan Fra nzen’s T ...

329 See also: The Catcher in the Rye 256–57 ■ White Teeth 324–25 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE a past order. His sections are punctuat ...

330 See also: The Heartless 241 A fter Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II, a line of latitude that crosses the Korean ...

331 See also: The Corrections 328–29 ■ The Reluctant Fundamentalist 339 T he terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Sep ...

L’HOMME RAPAILLÉ (1970), GASTON MIRON The masterwork of Gaston Miron (1928–96)—writer, poet, publisher, and luminary of Quebec l ...

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE THE AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE (1975–1981), PETER WEISS A three-volume historical novel dealing with the f ...

the country. Through its protagonist, a white, male, mild-mannered teacher, author André Brink (1935– 2015)—himself a white Sout ...

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE and the taboos that surround foreignness and colonialism. Alternating between first- and third-person na ...

within the family unit—which is described as the “cradle of the world’s misinformation.” THE NEW YORK TRILOGY (1985–1986; 1987), ...

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE as well as from literature (such as Robinson Crusoe). Both comic and satirical, the work touches on the ...

MY NAME IS RED (1998), ORHAN PAMUK An intellectual murder mystery centered around 16th-century miniaturists, My Name is Red won ...