New literature from around the world

In February, over 20,000 pages of new content was uploaded to Caribbean Literature, South and Southeast Asian Literature, Latin American Women Writers, and Black Women Writers. These four collections are part of the cross-searchable Alexander Street Literature, which currently contains over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels.

Highlights in the newly added literature include:

Caribbean Literature

• The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony (Trinidad)
• Busha's Mistress by Cyrus Francis Perkins (Jamaica)
• La Peregrinacion de Bayoan by Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Puerto Rico)

South and Southeast Asian Literature

• The Scarecrow and the Ghost and Under Orion by Keki N. Daruwalla (India/Pakistan)
• Bones by Mahadai Das (India/Guyana)
• Handwriting: Poems by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
• Jaya Ganga: In Search of the River Goddess by Vijay Singh (India)
• Tomorrow and Other Poems by Lhasang Tsering (Nepal/Tibet)

Latin American Women Writers

• Tres palabras y una mujer . . . by Lucila Palacios (Venezuela)
• Rito Pagão by Rosalina Coelho Lisboa (Brazil)

Black Women Writers

• A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou (United States)
• Drawn in Colour by Noni Jabavu (South Africa)
• Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region (v. 4) by various authors. The entire Women Writing Africa set is now available in Black Women Writers.

For more information on these individual literature collections, or the Alexander Street Literature package, please email [email protected]. Free trials and price quotes are available to libraries upon request.