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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Literature & Letters

All disciplines Literature125 Philosophy87 New Thought21 Theology10 History23 Linguistics1

Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.

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All eras 1st–5th century 6th–14th century 15th–17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century

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All countries Argentina4 Barbados2 Brazil6 Canada6 Chile2 Colombia2 Costa Rica1 Cuba2 Guatemala2 Mexico3 Peru1 Saint Lucia1 Trinidad and Tobago1 United States76 Uruguay1 Venezuela1

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W. E. B. Du Bois

1868 – 1963

The Souls of Black Folk and the concept of double consciousness.

United States·Philosophy · History · Literature

Kamau Brathwaite

1930 – 2020

Theorised 'nation language' and Caribbean creolisation.

Barbados·Literature · History

Eduardo Galeano

1940 – 2015

Open Veins of Latin America reframed a hemisphere's economic history.

Uruguay·History · Literature