 The Americas section features Pre-Columbian era poems in Quiche-Maya and Quechuan languages through to the 20th Century Latin American and Caribbean authors, including Derek Walcott, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, V. S. Naipaul and Giannina Braschi's Empire of Dreams (poetry collection).The 2003 anthology "Literatures of Latin America" traces the history and evolution of literature in Latin America and the Caribbean.The book contextualizes literatures in Quechuan, as well as in Carib, Quiché-Maya, and Nahuatl languages.