literature, modern

Includes twentieth century literature from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, East, South, and Southeast, Asia, and aboriginal writings from Australia and New Zealand, offering poetry, fiction, plays, and memoirs written by 180 authors from sixty-one countries and translated from approximately twenty-three languages.

Contains articles that provide information about major authors and aspects of twentieth-century world literature, arranged alphabetically from A-to-D.

Presents essays on 2,000 literary characters from 600 works of 20thcentury literature.

Presents essays on over 2,200 literary characters from 200 works of 19thcentury literature.