Literature of the World: A Comprehensive Companion to American Canadian Australian African European and Global Literature

<p>The sixteen chapters that follow are not just surveys of literary traditions&mdash;they are structured insights. Chapter 1 to Chapter 4 explore the growth of American literature from its Puritan roots to its modernist break. Chapter 5 brings to light the powerful voices of African American writers whose works forged resistance and selfhood in a fractured world. From Canadian multiculturalism to Caribbean postcolonial struggles from the oral traditions of African nations to the complex settler-indigenous tensions in Australia Chapters 6 to 9 form a mosaic of cultural identity and literary resistance. Chapters 10 to 14 traverse the European landscape&mdash;Russian anguish German philosophical introspection French revolutionary spirit Italian lyricism and the diverse literatures of the European continent. These are not distant canons&mdash;they are living breathing texts that continue to shape our ideas of humanity.</p>