Marques (African and Caribbean and comparative literature, Ontario College of At and Design U.) focuses on world writers Mozambican Mia Couto, Portuguese Jos矇 Saramago, Brazilian Clarice
Lispector, and South African J.M. Coetzee. All four are political, she says, in the sense that they bring to the forefront important issued related to different subaltern subjects. Among them
are the post-colonial subject, the poor subject, and the female subject. She also discusses the ahuman other of the natural world, the dead, and the unborn. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
