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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or the Traps of Faith
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, or the Traps of Faith is a 1982 essay by Octavio Paz on the Mexican nun and poet Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Sorath Rai Diyach
Sorath Rai Diyach (سورٺ راءِ ڏياچ) is a Sindhi folk epic in which king Rai Diyach of Junagadh gives his head to the musician Bijal.
Sotho poetry
Sotho poetry is the poetic tradition of the Basotho people of Southern Africa, composed in Sesotho. Its praise poems, dithoko, honor chiefs and serve as an oral history of the nation.
Sotho praise poetry
Sotho praise poetry, known in Sesotho as lithoko, is the oral praise poetry of the Basotho of southern Africa, chanted poems composed for and about kings, chiefs, and warriors.
Sotnikov
Sotnikov is a novella by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov, published in 1970, about two partisans in German-occupied Belarus facing opposite moral choices under capture and execution.
Souffles
"Souffles" is a poem in French by the Senegalese writer Birago Diop, first published in 1948 and best known for its line "Those who are dead are never gone."
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum is the 1971 first poetry collection by South African poet Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, recording black life under apartheid and winning the Olive Schreiner Prize.
South African protest novel
The South African protest novel is a novel written to expose and oppose apartheid through realistic depiction of racial injustice, dominating the country's fiction from the 1950s through the 1980s.
South African short story
The South African short story is the body of short prose fiction produced in South Africa in English, Afrikaans, and African languages, flourishing in the 1950s.
South English Legendary
The South English Legendary is an anonymous Middle English collection of verse saints' lives, probably compiled in Worcester in the late 13th century; it survives in about 50 manuscripts.
South of My Days
"South of My Days" is a 1945 poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, depicting the New England tableland of her childhood through an old drover's stories.
Southbound Journey
Southbound Journey (南行记, Nán Xíng Jì) is a 1935 short story collection by Chinese writer Ai Wu, based on his 1920s drifting through the Yunnan–Burma borderlands.
Southeast the Peacock Flies
Southeast the Peacock Flies (孔雀東南飛), originally Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing, is a Han yuefu narrative poem about a forced separation ending in double suicide.
Southern Cross (wordless novel)
Southern Cross is the sole wordless novel (1951) by Canadian artist Laurence Hyde: 118 wood engravings telling a fictional Bikini Atoll-style nuclear-test story, published by Ward Ritchie Press with a Rockwell Kent introduction, reprinted in 2007.
Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic is a genre, or mode, of American literature from the South that uses grotesque characters, dark humor, and decay to expose uncomfortable realities of race, class, and religion.
Southern noir
Southern noir (rural noir, country noir, grit lit) is crime fiction fusing hardboiled tradition with Southern Gothic, set in small-town and rural South; key authors Daniel Woodrell, S.A. Cosby, Attica Locke.
Soviet adventure novel
The Soviet adventure novel (приключенческий роман) is popular fiction produced in the Soviet Union from the early 1920s, blending fast adventure plots with revolutionary ideology.
Soviet documentary prose
Soviet documentary prose (документальная проза) is a genre of Russian and Soviet non-fiction built from real events, documents, and testimony, flourishing after the Thaw-era "documentary explosion" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Sozaboy
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English is a 1985 novel by the Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, narrated by a naive village youth who becomes a soldier in the Nigerian Civil War.
Spacing Guild
Spacing Guild: fictional Dune organization holding a monopoly on interstellar travel via spice-mutated Navigators with limited prescience guiding Heighliners through foldspace; one leg of the Great Convention tripod, later broken by Ixian navigation machines.
Spain, Take This Cup from Me
Spain, Take This Cup from Me is the final poetry collection by Peruvian poet César Vallejo, fifteen poems on the Spanish Civil War published posthumously in 1939.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro), also called early modern Spain, is the 16th–17th-century flowering of Spanish literature and art under Philip II–IV, spanning Renaissance and Baroque phases amid imperial crisis.
Spare (memoir)
Spare is Prince Harry's 2023 memoir, ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, published by Penguin Random House on 10 January 2023; it sold 1.4 million copies on day one, the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever.
Spawn (character)
Spawn (Al Simmons) is the Image Comics anti-hero created by Todd McFarlane, debuting May 1992; a Hellspawn soldier of Malebolgia powered by finite necroplasm, star of the best-selling (1.7 million copies) and longest-running independent comic series.
Speak (Anderson novel)
Speak (1999) is Laurie Halse Anderson's debut young adult novel about Melinda Sordino, a ninth grader rendered nearly mute after being raped by an upperclassman; a National Book Award finalist and Printz Honor book, frequently taught and frequently banned.
Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory is Vladimir Nabokov's memoir of his childhood in Russia and years of exile in Europe, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and revised in 1966.
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
Specimens of Bushman Folklore is a 1911 anthology of |xam and !kun oral literature recorded in the nineteenth century by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, published in London.
SPECTRE
SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) is Ian Fleming's fictional global crime organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, introduced in Thunderball (1961), central to the Bond films, and returned to EON's series after the 2013 McClory rights settlement.
Speculations About Jakob
Speculations About Jakob (German: Mutmassungen über Jakob) is the 1959 debut novel of German writer Uwe Johnson, following the unexplained death of East German railway dispatcher Jakob Abs.
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is the umbrella term for non-mimetic fiction: fantasy, science fiction, horror, dystopia, alternate history, and hybrids. Coined by Robert Heinlein in 1941 as a stricter science-fiction subset, it now covers all genres departing from consensus reality.