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Root-Bernstein, Robert and Root-Bernstein, Michele.Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of theWorld’s Most Creative People. Boston: HoughtonMifflin, 1999.Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practiceof the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday,c1990.Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language andTranslation. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.Wolverton, Mimi. The Changing Nature of the AcademicDeanship. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001.COMING SOON—Literary AmazoniaModern Writing by Amazonian AuthorsEdited by Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz“Literary Amazonia is unusual in its enlighteneddeparture from a geopolitical organizationof literary production. The quality ofthe works and their exceptional translationsare fitting tributes to a bold new view of animportant facet of Latin American literature,by and large unfamiliar to most readers.”—Leland Guyer, Macalester College, St. PaulThis remarkable selection of 20th-centuryAmazonian literature presents writing fromthe indigenous and mestizo people of theAmazon basin, recovering their forgottenvoices for the Latin American literarycanon. Most of these pieces—from 24 representativepoets and 12 prose writers—arecollected and translated into English herefor the first time.Amazonia typically has been regardedas a jungle environment—a source of folktales and the concern of anthropologists.This pioneering collection illustrates theextraordinary multiculturalism of the regionand its evolving contemporary culture.While turning notions of national literaturesupside down, the book will contribute to theconstruction of a new Amazonian identityand will position the region’s creative writingfirmly inside mainstream Latin Americanliterary history. What’s more, it evokesthe astonishing and marvelous beauty ofone of the world’s most important rivercultures.MAY. Cloth $39.95Order through full-service booksellers,our website at www.upf.com, or withVISA, American Express, or M/C tollfree: 1-800-226-3822UNIVERSITY PRESS OFGainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa, Boca Raton,Pensacola, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Fort MyersTranslation Review 19