Includes index and bibliography.

Lesson 1. Traditions and locations: the Filipino poem -- Lesson 2. Representation and the Philippine canon -- Lesson 3. Philippine literature: writing in regions -- Lesson 4. Writing the regions: traditions and trends -- Lesson 5. Emerging trends in the Philippine literature: the literary essay -- Lesson 6. The language of literature -- Lesson 7. Philippine literary turns and tropes -- Lesson 8. What surrounds the literary text -- Lesson 9. The region in the nation -- Lesson 10. Texts and contexts -- Lesson 11. Rethinking the tower of Babel -- Lesson 12. Literary landmarks -- Lesson 13. Memory of the empire and/in the cosmopolitan port city -- Lesson 14. The question of race -- Lesson 15. Passing through, going through the motions -- Lesson 16. East Asian literature: exchanges and cultural networks -- Lesson 17. Symbol in Southeast Asian literature -- Lesson 18. African literature and Mandela's legacy -- Lesson 19. From boom to post-boom Latin American literature -- Lesson 20. South Asian literature: the postcolonial turn -- Index -- Bibliography.