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Handbook
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WORLD LITERATURE RESOURCES AND LINKS(Have a good link to add? Tell me!)
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- A librarian's remarkably comprehensive bibliography of authors and texts from non-Western sources from ancient times through today. This is a great resource for choosing an independent book - find a title that looks interesting, and then go to amazon.com and read some reviews to see if looks like something you would like.
- Africa We learn a great deal about the Greek and Roman Empires, but very little about the great empires that ruled (and whose descendants still occupy) Africa.
- Wikipedia has some good resources about major empires in Africa.
- For more detail, Central Oregon Community College has copious information about African Empires in ancient times, and from the 1st - 15th centuries. You can keep on reading right up through the slave trade era, then the resistance to colonialism, and even into the modern day.
For a different kind of video game, try playing Third World Farmer, which bills itself as a realistic look at the challenges faced by farmers in developing African nations. Probably the most difficult simulation game you've ever tried!
Another interesting game is Food-Force! You play as a United Nations food relief team. The website also has excellent links to real-world resources for addressing hunger, and how you can get involved.
- Some good resources on the history of and ideas in Postcolonial literature:
- Postcolonialweb has a wealth of resources about various former colonies - history, economics, demographics, etc, as well as literature and literary and political theory.
- Emory University's Postcolonial Studies site
- A bibliography of Postcolonial Studies readings from Boston College
- A half-complete but still interesting Wikipedia page on Postcolonialism
- The Middle East
- Some great links to and descriptions of Arab Poets and Poetry are here.
- General resources on Arab Culture and Civilization are available here through the NITLE Arab World project.
- Want to get news about the Middle East (and the rest of the world) from an Arab perspective? Check out Al-Jazeera.net (the world's most popular Arab satellite channel), or the Middle East's leading English daily, Arabnews.com.
- The Jerusalem Post is Israel's most popular newspaper, and Ha'Eretz is also a good source for Israeli news from Israel. PeaceNow is one of the largest peace movements in Israel.
- China - some language and literature resources.
- Japan - Link to the full translated text of the Tale of Genji, the most highly esteemed literary work in the culture (think of it as Japanese Shakespeare, as respected and as difficult). For help, read this thorough background on the Tale of Genji.
Want to learn some Japanese? Here's a great site that uses lessons taught by anime characters!
- Miscellaneous
- The CIA World Factbook gives you quick and thorough facts at a glance about any nation in the world.
- How equally do the people of the world share our planet?
>>>Distribution of resources in the world
>>>Consumption of those resources
>>>An opposing viewpoint
- Human Rights Watch monitors and reports on the state of human rights around the globe, as does the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equity.
- Resources about sweatshops and the impact of globalization on developing nations. For opposing arguments, you can always visit Nike, Reebok, etc. and get their point of view.
- Hostelling international - for when you want to travel the world on the cheap.
- A list of when women gained the right to vote, by country.
- How to communicate vegetarianism in a hundred different languages.
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