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Global Cultures (Paperback)
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Global Cultures (Paperback)
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Over the past two decades, sweeping political changes and
burgeoning new technologies have resulted in communities being
increasingly defined in global as well as regional and national
terms. Although the intellectual terra nova of world cultures
remains largely uncharted, this anthology of sixty-two stories from
around the non-Euro-American world provides what Elisabeth
Young-Bruehl calls "an introductory map to the great wealth of
literary works now being produced in, at once, the particular
settings of the writers' experiences and the global setting."
Young-Bruehl finds that while the cultural diversity the stories
exemplify is amazing, so too is the similarity in thematic terms of
the concerns that this diversity presents. Thus she organized
Global Cultures thematically to highlight and clarify how these
worldwide cultures both converge and diverge. A comprehensive
general introduction outlines forces behind the transnational
approach to literary study and chapter introductions contextualize
each story. Stories from India, Cuba, South Africa, and Uruguay are
connected by the theme of exile and immigration; tales from
Nigeria, Guatemala, Cameroon, and Egypt share a theme of political
violence and civil uprisings; works from Taiwan, Chile, Jamaica,
and Syria describe commonalities of women facing effects of
modernization, prejudice, war, and immigration.
Global Cultures contributes to the fast-growing body of
contemporary short fictions newly available in English and is an
invaluable resource to meet the need for multicultural literature.
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