Includes bibliographical reference.

Foreword iii -- Preface v -- Curriculum Guide vii -- Table of Contents xvii -- Learning Objectives for Chapter 1-5 1 Chapter 1-21st Century Philippine Literature 3 -- Chapter 2 History of Philippine Literature 25 -- Chapter 3 Philippine Literary Canon 57 -- Chapter 4 National Artists for Literature 87 -- Chapter 5 Selected Texts in 21st Century Philippine Literature 125 -- Chapter 6 21st Century World Literature 211 -- Chapter 7 21s Century Asian Literatures 217 -- Chapter 8 21st Century Anglo-American Literatures 251 -- Chapter 9 21st Century Continental European Literatures 275 -- Chapter 10 21st Century Latin American Literatures 303 -- Chapter 11 21st Century African Literatures 315 -- Chapter 12 Critical Approaches to Literature 343 -- Glossary of Literary Terns 365 -- References 369 -- Authors' Profiles 373

"This book aims to engage students in the appreciation and critical study of 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the world encompassing their various dimensions, genres, elements, structures, contexts and traditions. Chapters 1 to 5 are literary texts from the Philippines and the representative writings from the different regions of the country and from the National Artists for Literature. Chapter 6 to 11 are representative texts from the different continents of the world originally written in the 21st century. 21st Century literatures are literary works written and published at the latter part of the 21st century (from 2001 onwards). These works are often characterized as gender sensitive, technologically alluding, culturally pluralistic, operates on the extreme reality or extreme fiction, and questions conventions and supposedly absolute norms. --