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21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World

Quarter 2 – Module 1:
Writing a Close Analysis and Critical Interpretation of Literary Texts
What’s In
Directions: In three sentences, explain what the statement “World Literature is the
cultural heritage of all the humanity’ means to you. Write down your responses on a sheet
of paper.
1. World literature is the culture heritage of all humanity.
2. A must to study world literature as it help us understand the lives of others around the
world.
3. The living of different people around the world.
What’s More
Directions: It’s time for a ‘Brainergizer’! Before you get to know some
famous authors from the different parts of the world, let’s first test your
knowledge through this True or False trivia game. Write T if the statement is
true and F if it is false. You can write your answers in your paper.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. F
5. F
6. F
7. T
8. T
9. F
10. F
Additional Activitties
Directions:You are a freelance blogger in an online literary magazine.
You need to write a feature article on world literature with emphasis on
representative texts and authors from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin
America, and Africa Make sure that your feature provides the following
information:
1. What is World Literature?
2. Background or short overview of your chosen representative authors,
their literary works.
3. End the article by highlighting what are the author’s contribution to
contemporary literature where you can include his/her causes or
advocacies based on the common themes found in his/her work.

World’s Culture
World Literature is used to refer to the total of the world’s national literature and
the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. Works of
literature from different parts of the world with written language is included in our
World literature even the publication of ancient text from cultures as diverse as those of
the Aztecs and Sumerians.
 World literature is said to be the cultural heritage of all humanity. World literature
helps us understand the life of different people from all over the world and it is very
important to study. As a student this helps me see the world, people, places, things, and
events. The more we study, the more we are aware of ourselves and the world around us.
Reading and studying literature--whether prose, poetry, or drama--helps us to understand
the world around us and gives us insights into the human condition.

The formation of literature in different countries happened not at the same time,
which is connected with the emergence of writing and artistic creativity. Each nation`s
literature has its own artistic and national features.

One of the Asia’s notable writers, is a Malaysian novelist known for being the first
Malaysian recipient of the Man Asian Literary Prize. He is the first Malaysian novelist
to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the first Malaysian author to win the
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
 Tan was born in Penang and grew up in Kuala Lumpur. He is of the Straits
Chinese descent. Tan speaks mainly English, Penang Hokkien, and some Cantonese. Tan
studied law at the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in
one of Kuala Lumpur's leading law firms before becoming a full-time writer. He has
spent the last year travelling around South Africa, and is currently living in Malaysia.

“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the

movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time,
illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in
shadows again.” – The garden of evening mists.