There are two new Children's Nonfiction sub-genres: Biography and History. If you're launching a project that is nonfiction, geared towards children/youth, and that is telling someone's real life story or some history, use these genres, please.
We have also added an Asian Antiquity genre for really old Asian literature. Right now it's a sub-genre under "Classics (Greek and Latin)" but that might change. (Since we cannot rearrange the order of the genre lists, this is the best place we could think of it for now.)
Three New Genres (2 in Children's Nonfiction)
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Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
Asian is a pretty amorphous term. I'm very happy to see the issue addressed, though.
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If you go to the search page, you can browse by genre, and there is a list to choose from: https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=0&search_category=genre&search_page=1&search_form=get_results
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Yes, I know. But what is a succinct term that we can use for Indian/Chinese/Japanese or other East Asian ancient lit?
School fiction: David Blaize
America Exploration: The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
America Exploration: The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Serial novel: The Wandering Jew
Medieval England meets Civil War Americans: Centuries Apart
Yes, I know, though I wonder about the Semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic. I just don't think of them as especially Asian. Of course, defining Asian and all its arguments speaks to this.
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True, Near East and Far East (or Asian) is usually the dividing line but those are old designations and pretty Eurocentric (East from where?). I always found it weird when I was in law enforcement and entering someone's physical description info in a report that someone from Israel or the Middle East was classified as Asian. More Eurocentrism--"ancient literature" in the generic sense usually means ancient Greek/Roman/Middle Eastern civilizations and people don't think of Asian let alone the literature and oral traditions of the various indigenous people worldwide. One of those colonialist categorizations that you don't really question when you are growing up and learning categories of this and that (especially if you are a library-haunting nerd like me) that you have to consciously learn to ask, wait, why is this? at some point. I'm embarrassed how late in life such insights have come to me (and are still coming...)
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No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai