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Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers Book

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  • Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers
  • Written by author Carol Verburg, Alice E. Adams, David Londow
  • Published by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994
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Preface for Instructors v
Introduction for Students: Crossing Cultures, Reading Actively, and Thinking Critically xix
Part 1 Identifying Ourselves 1
Observations 3
A Short Quiz (United States) 10
The Mulatto Millennium (United States) 18
Two Kinds (United States/China) (Fiction) 24
Quinceanera (United States/Mexico) 36
The Art of the Fiesta (Mexico) 48
One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification (Australia/Great Britain) 55
The Westernization of the World (Great Britain/World) 66
African Literature: What Tradition? (South Africa) 73
A View from Canada (Canada) 79
Imaginary Homelands (India/Great Britain) 86
Part 2 Families 93
Observations 95
Making Babies (United States) 102
From Death to Divorce (United States) 115
Stone Soup (United States) 127
Limerick Homecoming (Ireland) 136
Birth Ceremonies (Guatemala) 146
Nigerian Childhood (Nigeria) 158
Grave Matters at Monticello (United States) 168
Family Secrets (United States) 174
Acquiring a Japanese Family (Japan) 185
A Family Supper (Japan) (Fiction) 197
Part 3 Turning Points 207
Observations 209
Mary (United States) 217
The Stolen Party (Argentina) (Fiction) 224
So Tsi-fai (Hong Kong) 231
Imperiled Men (United States) 237
Achates McNeil (United States) (Fiction) 245
The New Lost Generation (United States/France) 263
Europe Once Gripped America's Imagination--Now It's the Other Way Around (United States/Europe) 273
The New Europeans: Multilingual, Cosmopolitan, Borderless (Europe) 277
Where Do Whites Fit In? (South Africa) 284
The Three Jobs of the Future (United States) 292
Part 4 Opposite Sexes 305
Observations 307
The Disposable Rocket (United States) 314
Your Life as a Girl (United States) (Fiction) 319
Woman and Nature (United States) 327
Man and WOMAN (United States) 332
Woman as Other (France) 341
The Chase (Italy) (Fiction) 349
How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently (United States) 356
Nisa's Marriage (Botswana) 363
Muslims, the First Feminists (Arabia) 371
A Dirty Story (Turkey) (Fiction) 387
Part 5 Myth and Magic 409
Observations 411
Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction (United States) 419
What Makes Superman So Darned American? (United States) 428
Digging into Your Heart (United States) 439
Fairy Tale of the Natchez Trace (United States) 447
From Beloved (United States) (Fiction) 460
Caste Hate, and Murder, Outlast Indian Reforms (India) 477
The Gentleman (Greece/Great Britain) 483
The Writer and His Community (Nigeria) 489
Clarisa (Chile) (Fiction) 501
Dreams for Hire (Colombia/Cuba) 513
Part 6 People and Power 521
Observations 523
Future Shlock (United States) 531
Yearnings (China) 542
The Day After Technology (Russia) 556
Between Word and Picture (Israel/Germany) 569
Still Grieving over the Loss of the Land (United States) 579
Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave It (United States) 586
The Talented Tenth (United States) 592
Black Man in a White Court (South Africa) 600
Six Days: Some Rememberings (United States) 610
Down the Clinical Disco (Great Britain) (Fiction) 617
Georgaphical Index 629
Rhetorical Index 631
Index of Authors and Titles 637
Map of the World Identifying Countries Treated in Selections


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