Literatures
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The new companion to the literature of Wales
Resistance literature
Writing between cultures
Masterplots II
The fields of home
Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries
Outsiders and insiders
The literatures of colonial America
The Short story in South East Asia
Fictions and histories
Direct Democracy
Encyclopedia of frontier literature
The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet literature
Comparative American identities
Postcolonial Criticism
The Oxford companion to Spanish literature
Three American literatures
England the nation
Cape Verde
Colonial discourse, postcolonial theory
In Search of the World's Worst Writers
Another kind of paradise
Reading Comprehension
New worlds of literature
A state of independence
Language and tradition in Ireland
Between the lines
New voices in Native American literary criticism
A history of Canadian literature
Identities and issues in literature
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