Chronology of multicultural literature in the Americas

1916: The Japanese-Brazilian magazine Shukan Nambei is created.
1924: The Japanese-Brazilian Review Brasil Jiho is created.
1927: Creation of The Journal native Haiti (Haitian Africa).
1940: Tambores en la noche Jorge Artel (African Colombian).
1944: Abdias do Nascimento, Teatro Experimental do creates the Negro in Rio de Janeiro.
1946: Pregon marimorena of Virginia Brindis de Salas (African Uruguayan).
1954: A cada um seu paraíso Grellert Otto (German, Brazil).
1956: Contos do imigrante Rawet Samuel, pioneer of Jewish literature in Brazil.
1959: The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupe Jew).
1967: Marion Fleischer, A Alam poesia no Brasil.
1968: Poemas para un pueblo de Pedro Shimosa (Japanese Bolivian).
1971: Álbum de familia de José Watanabe (Japanese Peruvian).
1973: O Homem Só um exército of Moacyr Scliar (Brazilian Jew); Ritmos negros del Perúof Nicomedes Santa Cruz (African Peruvian), Edward Kamau Brathwaite, The Arrivals(African Barbadian).
1977: A Hora da Estrela de Clarice Lispector (Brazil Jewish) Oku Onuora publishes Echo(African Jamaican).
1978: The Afro-Brazilian magazine Cadernos Negros is created in São Paulo.
1983: Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies is given to Louise Bennett (African Jamaican).
1988: O haikai no Brasil, Hidezaku Masuda Goga (Japanese Brazilian).
1990: Relato de um Certo Oriente Milton Hatoum (Lebanese Brazilian).
1991: The Guyana Prize for Literature awarded to the novel The Intended by David Dabydeen (Guyana of Indian origin); Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán publishes El invierno, su Imagen y otros Poemas Azules (Chilean Amerindian).
1995: Jewish voices in Brazilian literature: a discourse of alterity prophecy Nelson Vieira.
1997: publication of Elegbara Alberto Mussa, who intends to blend Western narrative traditions, oriental, Indian and Afro-Brazilian (Brazilian Lebanese).
1999: José Yamashiro, Trajetória Duas Vidas (Japanese Brazilian).
2000: Abadio Green, Beyond the Mask (Amerindians of Panama); no somos gente Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy (Indian from Colombia).
2004: Negerjood in moederland Ellen Shade (Jewish Surinam), Esteban Rios, Dxi gueela 'GACA' diidxa '/ Cuando la noche sea palabra (Native Mexican); Encuentros en los Senderos Abya Yala Miguel Ángel López (Colombian Amerindian ) "An Afro-Caribbean Chinese: Cultural Cartographies of Contrariness In The Work of Antonio Chuffat Latour, Margaret Cezaire-Thompson, and Patricia Powell" Lisa Yun (Chinese Cubans).
2005: Kanew, daba el árbol sed that Miguel Ángel Jusayú (Venezuelan Amerindian).
2007: Carlos Montemayor and Donald H. Frischmann, Words of the True People evokes the poetry of the Americas in Amerindian languages.
2008: Daniel Munduruku publishes Todas as Coisas Pequenas são (Brazilian Amerindian).

Chronology of multicultural literature in the U.S.

1903: WEB Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (African American).
1925: Alain Locke, The New Negro. Beginning of the Harlem Renaissance (African American).

1934: John Joseph Matthews, Sundown (Native American) and Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (Jewish American).
1935: Judgement Day Studs Lonigan trilogy concludes James T. Farrell (Irish American).
1939: Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (Italian American).
1943: Jerre Mangione, Mount Allegro (Italian American).
1945: Josephina Niggli, Mexican Village (Mexican American).
1949: Mari Tomasi, Like Lesser Gods (Italian American).
1953: The National Book Award is presented to Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (African American).
1957: John Okada, No-No Boy (Japanese American).
1961: Jesús Colón publishes A Puerto Rican in New York and Other skits, marking the beginning of the Nuyorican Movement (Puerto Rican American).

1965: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (Italian American), the Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem was founded by Amiri Baraka.
1967: Founding of the publisher Quinto Sol (Mexican American).
1969: N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn (Native American), marking according to the critic Kenneth Lincoln beginning of the Native American Renaissance. "
1969: Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (Jewish American).
1971: Frank Chin, Chickencoop Chinamen (Chinese American).
1972: Publication of Asian American Authors, the first anthology on this theme; Rudolfo Anaya,Bless Me, Ultima (Mexican American), Jose Montoya, El Sol y Los De Abajo RCAF and Other Poems (Mexican American).
1973: Bilingual Review Press have created (Latin American), The Asian American Theater Company is based in San Francisco, Miguel algarine creates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York (Puerto Rican American).  
1974: Publication of Aiiieeeee!. An Anthology of Asian American Writers, published by David Hsin-fu Wand (ed.), Asian American Heritage.
1975: Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (African American).
1976: Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin (Mexican American), Bernice Zamora, Restless Serpents (Mexican American).
1977: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (Native American), Gerald Vizenor, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (Native American).
1978: Janice Mirikitani, Awake in the River (Japanese American).
1979: Launch of Arte Público magazine (Latin American) Helen Barolin, Umbertina (Italian American).
1981: IB Nadel, Jewish Writers of North America; Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada (Mexican American).
1982: Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory (Mexican American).
1983: William Kennedy, Ironweed (Irish American).
1984: Louis Erdrich, Love Medicine (Native American).
1985: Creation of the literary magazine Wíčazo Ša Review (Native American), The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
1987: Toni Morrison, Beloved (African American).
1988: Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Japanese American), Ella Deloria, Waterlily (Native American).
1989: Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Chinese American), Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (Chinese American).
1992: Ray González, After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (Latin American).
1995: Ginu Kamani, Junglee Girl (American Indian).
1996: Suheir Hammad, Born Palestinian, Born Black (Palestinian American).
1997: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Mistress of Spices (Indian American).
1998: Beau Sia, A Night Without Armor II (Chinese American).
2003: Tina De Rosa, Paper Fish (Italian American).
2006: Mohja Kahf: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Syrian American). 

When I think that Beethoven died when so many idiots live ...., Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

One day, during an exhibition of masks, Beethoven returns to the life of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: the writer remembers having once loved passionately, as a teenager. 
Why Beethoven did it away? Why today's man feels he more these emotions, romance, these thunderstorms inland and joy? Who has disappeared? Beethoven or us? And who is the murderer? 
This text is followed by Kiki van Beethoven, the adventure of a woman, in her sixties radiant, which goes through the music, change his life and that of her three friends. A tale of lost youth and the secrets buried.


Impressions: The book must be for those who want to discover a composer too well known to be listened to ..
The author's erudite and passionate music lover guide the reader step by step to make him see the beauty that resonates in the works too often ill-heeded.
Both philosophical essay on the beauty and creativity, aesthetic and ride, this little book will appeal to both laymen and insiders ... A book to listen without moderation.