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. 

Sufi my love, Elif Shafak

Ella Rubinstein has seemingly everything to be happy: a beautiful house in Massachusetts, three beautiful children, a faithful dog. But on the eve of his fortieth birthday, she wonders if she has not gone beside herself. The infidelities of her husband are no longer a mystery and cooking classes on Thursday not enough to exalt his monotonous life. Decided to resume work, she was hired as a reader by a literary agent. His first assignment: write a note on a manuscript signed Aziz Z. Zahara. This novel, which recounts the encounter between the poet Rumi and the most famous dervish of the Muslim world, Shams of Tabriz, will be a revelation for Ella.Throughout the pages, she discovers Sufism, the rejection of convention and the splendor of love. This story proves to be the mirror of his own.Aziz - as Shams Rumi did for seven centuries ago - would it come release?

Impressions: No this is not a book on yet another depressed woman, no it is not just another book to rosewater for romantic housewife. Yes, the summary is a little draw, and yes it should read ...

A beautiful mystical tale straight out of the tales of Thousand and One Nights. An entertaining way and beautifully written to discover or deepen Sufism. The Muslim spirituality much closer to us than Islam hardcore ... A book on Love, a book about love ..

My detractors will always say that the end is a bit immoral, after all, Ella is a crisis of teen and she fits into a cult ... I agree but I think the key lies in the call to conversion, the quest for the Absolute

Philippe Sollers, Treasure of Love

"We live in Venice, therefore, Minna and me, away. We can not escape, you see nobody, water, books, birds, trees, boats, bells, silence, music, we agree on everything. Never enough time yet again. Late at night, a grand march to the ferry terminal and back, when all sleep. I get up early, the sun on the left, and that time again, and again time. You are silent much, that evidence means. The lovers are alone in the world because the world is done for them and by them. Love is in the vortex cell of chance, and those two had a chance to meet a few billion at the same time. Between French and Italian, there is a long and bizarre history. She asks, with Stendhal, only deepen. "

Philippe Sollers was born in Bordeaux. He founded the journal and the collection as it stood in 1960, then in 1983, the magazine and The Infinite Collection. Author of numerous novels and essays (Paradise, Women, Portrait of the players, the absolute heart, Day in Venice, The Secret, The War of taste, The rider of the Louvre, Casanova's admirable ...) it has published by Editions Gallimard fixed Passion (Vintage White, 2000, Folio No. 3566), The Star Lovers (Vintage White, 2002 Folio No. 4120), A Divine Life (Vintage White, 2006, Folio No. 4533), The Travelers Time (Vintage White, 2009), Great Speeches (Vintage White, 2010).

Impressions: I must confess right now, I'm not at all a fan of Sollers ... Author libertine and malicious, praised by all the cream-Pratini Germano, has a knack for exasperating me ...

But given all the critical praise and unanimous, so I went in trying to put my evil thoughts a bit muted reaction ...

I have conquered the first few pages, beautiful passages about Venice, about love, literature.But after a while ... pffff We are bored ... The journey of a dreamer becomes a bit disjointed Treaty on Stendhal and loves missed ....

Hardly enough to really masterpiece ... A pretentious book although I confess it is well written ...

You can safely do without and if you still want to shine in society, read a lagarde you will learn much about Stendhal without losing too much time!

The Will of Olympia, Chantal Thomas

The story of two sisters from a poor background and very religious. One of them escaped while the other is placed in a convent ....
After some years the youngest decides to go looking for one she admired so much ...

Brrrrr, it was not good to be a young woman in the eighteenth. Grandeur and decadence of a Cinderella who all failed to succeed.
A beautiful book that suits the author manages to make us forget his scholarship and to serve an exciting romantic intrigue.
We must however take this book as an anti fairy tale and not the absolute reality. The cartoon was omni-present and manifest anti-monarchy ....
For those who are sad (and me), reading this book can become quite painful ....

Laura Kasischke, in a perfect world

The story: After a wedding Express with the pilot of his dreams is powered Jiselle mother of large family ... Gradually, as her illusions fall one after the other, the world crumbles around her little by little ...

Impressions: Do not rely on the summary, this book is not a book about the harsh Women ... Madame Bovary is not just another competitor ...
Very comfortable under cover of a book for young housewife in need of feeling, the reader is drawn into a tale of ordinary life in a blended family and a world in Apocalypse. Also at the border between fantasy and psychological literature, the author plays with favorite themes of the literature of anticipation. Of 'Ravage' through 'the plague', the tone is set! Without doubt the best book of the author ...
Gradually, as the world crumbles, heroin built his own, the consolidating getting rid of the superfluous.
A Barjavel with duvets in all!