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This volume of the COMPANION crosses the Atlantic to cover the literature of the two Americas. The section on the U.S.A. covers literature from the early colonial writers o the present day. Owing to particulary shadowy borders between literature and non-literature in the United States, many entries have been vevoted to writers outside the strictly literary field, including politicians, philosophers and sociologists. The Latin American section gives comprehensive coverage to a much less familiar literature, now increasingly alive and the subject of a rapidly growing interest