quizlet afro asian

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  • First Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
    Rabindranath Tagore
  • Filial Piety

    Confucianism
  • Hindu belief that life is an illusion
    Maya
  • Non-speculative hymns
    Rigveda
  • Collection of sayings from brief statements (Confucius and his students)
    Analects
  • Chinese poem song to the tunes of popular melodies
    Tzu
  • Written by Sei Shonogon on life at the Imperial Court
    The Pillow Book
  • Costumed Cast of Actors wearing masks
    No
  • Not characteristics of African Oral Literature
    Tonal Alliteration
  • Discuss and debate usually with an open-ending
    Enigma
  • Ramayana
    Valmiki
  • Chou Shu-jen
    Lu Xun
  • Buddhist Monk Xuanzang to India
    Record of a Journey to the West
  • Novels of Yasunari Kawabata except

    Confessions of a Mask
  • Average length of the plays takes about four acts with a prologue and an epilogue
    Total Theater
  • Golden age of Chinese civilization
    Tang Dynasty
  • example of satire
    The Poor Christ of Bombay
  • First African Nobel Laureate
    Wole Soyinka
  • Leading figure of the Negritude Movement in Africa
    Leopold Senghor
  • Commited Seppuko except
    Seami Motokiya
  • Similar in form and framing as the Canterbury Tales and Decameron
    1001 Arabian Nights and Panchatantra
  • Brave warriors, bandits, crafty and evil ministers
    Ching
  • Two major faiths of Japanese. First is Shintoism, second is

    Zen Buddhism
  • Amansi the Spider
    Trickster Tale
  • Indian National Poet
    Rabindranath Tagore
  • Sequel to Things Fall Apart
    No Longer at Ease
  • taj mahal architect
    Ustad Ahmad Lahori
  • Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017
    Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Mahabharata Couplets

    100,000
  • Not included in the Eight Fold Path of Buddhism
    Right Attitude
  • Expatriate South African Writer (Complex issues of the Non-whites)
    Peter Abrahams
  • Most famous Bengali writer of Sanskrit and Charistahin
    Saratchandra Chattopadaya
  • The King who tasks his Kingdom like Elixir
    Treasures his kingdom not his position
  • Wine of life/Leaves of life
    Metaphor
  • Egypt
    Gift of the Nile
  • Bible
    Written Law
  • Book of Kings
    Shah Namah
  • Not considered a bible for a certain religion
    Talmud
  • "Say it with flowers"

    Businessman fool their clients and customers
  • Karma by Khushwant Singh
    A citizen who dreams of being an Englishman