Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Concert of Voices is one of a number of new anthologies meant to reflect
the ever-growing interest in multicultural literature that is finding
its way into English Studies at universities. The editor, Victor Ramraj,
is particularly suited to the task of assembling this anthology because
of his editorship of ARIEL: A Review of International Literature. He has
selected a collection that is varied, interesting, representative, and
of the highest quality. The collection includes writers from Africa,
Canada, the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, the
South Pacific, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Surprisingly,
the latter two “superpowers” of English literature are grouped
together. In the past, each would have had a place of its own, while all
the rest would have been lumped together as a kind of “other.”
Ramraj has arranged the pieces in alphabetical order by author, with
alternative tables of contents by genre (fiction, poetry, drama, essay)
and region. This anthology should be considered by anyone planning an
English course with a multicultural or multinational approach.