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King, Bruce, and A. Robert Lee. "Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction." World Literature Today 71, no. 1 (1997): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40152674.
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Samdahl, Diane M., and Corey W. Johnson. "Multicultural Detective Fiction: Exploring Cultural Diversity Through Leisure." SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education 17, no. 1 (April 2002): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1937156x.2002.11949502.
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Ali, Gulzar, Muhammad Haseeb Nasir, and Azhar Habib. "UNVEILING CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM IN PAKISTANI ENGLISH FICTION: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF BAPSI SIDHWA’S ICE-CANDY MAN." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 04 (December 31, 2022): 209–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i04.804.
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This paper aims to explore cultural differentialism in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man (1988). In the novel, during the pre-partition days, Indian multicultural society is depicted as tolerant and peaceful, because the multicultural group of Ayah Shanta, Lenny, Ice-Candy Man, and other minor characters live in harmony and peace. However, the bloody episode of partition unveils the rift of cultural differences in the multicultural group replicating the cultural divergence in the multicultural society of India. For the interpretation of data, qualitative research methodology is employed, and moreover, theoretical framework is based on George Ritzer (2011) and Samuel Huntington’s (1993) views of cultural differentialism. This paper will pinpoint cultural differences of different cultural communities, including Parsees, Hindus, Muslims, and Christians, during pre-partition and post-partition days in united India. This study will also guide researchers to uncover other dimensions of the novel apropos to cultural differentialism. In addition, it will help people of multicultural societies to tolerate cultural differences for promoting peaceful coexistence in today’s globalised world. Keywords: Cultural differentialism, multicultural societies, multicultural group, pre-partition, post-partition, peaceful coexistence.
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Dobrescu, Caius. "Identity, Otherness, Crime: Detective Fiction and Interethnic Hazards." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2013): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0004.
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Abstract The topic of Otherness has been investigated from the point of view of popular culture and popular fiction studies, especially on the basis of the multiracial social environments of the United States. The challenges of addressing real or potential conflicts in areas characterised by an ethnic puzzle are to some extent similar, but at the same time differ substantively from the political, legal, and fictional world of “race.” This paper investigates these differences in the ways of overcoming ethnic stereotyping on the basis of examples taken from post-World War II crime fiction of Southern Europe, and Middle East. In communist and post-communist Eastern Central Europe there are not many instances of mediational crime fiction. This paper will point to the few, although notable exceptions, while hypothesizing on the factors that could favor in the foreseeable future the emergence and expansion of such artistic experiments in the multiethnic and multicultural province of Transylvania.
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Rahbek, U. "'Repping your Ends': Imagined Borders in Recent British Multicultural Fiction." Literature and Theology 27, no. 4 (November 22, 2013): 426–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frt037.
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CLARK, ROGER, and HEIDI KULKIN. "Toward a Multicultural Feminist Perspective on Fiction for Young Adults." Youth & Society 27, no. 3 (March 1996): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x96027003002.
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Sultan, Sultan, Hasnawi Haris, and Anshari Anshari. "Functions and Strategies to the Integration of Multicultural Values in Textbook Discourse for Elementary School Students." Lingua Cultura 14, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v14i1.6219.
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The research was designed to reveal two crucial issues in multicultural education, namely functions and strategies to the integration of multicultural values in textbook discourse. Content analysis was employed to generate systematic and objective findings. Data were collected from textbooks used by the fourth-grade students in Indonesia and published by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia. Data collection was performed using the read-and-quote technique. Data analysis consisted of identification, categorization, and interpretation. The results of the analysis reveal that (1) multicultural values represented in textbook discourse function to build students’ positive attitude towards individual, cultural, ethnic, and gender differences to instill an anti-discrimination attitude towards different ethnics, religions, races, and develop students’ pride in sociocultural diversity. (2) Multicultural values are internalized through fiction, story characterization, cultural products, songs, and ethnic philosophies. Sociocultural aspects, social problems, and characteristics of the students are identified as factors that may impact on the functions and strategies to the internalization of the multicultural values.
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Selden, Daniel L. "TARGUM: TRANSLATION IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN IMPERIAL PROSE FICTION." Ramus 43, no. 2 (December 2014): 173–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2014.11.
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Hellenistic and Roman Imperial prose fiction sprang from the ashes of the Haxāmanišiyan Empire (c.550-330 BCE). The multicultural autonomy that Iranian regents afforded their subject peoples laid the groundwork for social policy under Alexandros, the Diadokhoi, and Roman governance of the Near East. As literary fiction developed over the course of the ‘long’ Hellenistic period, the diversity of languages and cultures not only shaped the kinds of narratives produced: polyglossia became a subject of representation in and of itself, as did the possibilities of translation between one language and another.
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Nashrullah, Nashrullah. "THE EFFECT OF MULTICULTURAL APPROACH ON READING AND WRITING FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENT." Tadulako Social Science and Humaniora Journal 2, no. 1 (November 25, 2021): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.22487/sochum.v2i1.15560.
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This study aimed at investigating the effect of multicultural approach on reading comprehension and writing skills of grade V elementary school students in the South of Borneo. This is a quasi experimental research with nonequivalent-groups pretest and postest design. The participants experimental class was student of class VB MI Al-hamid Banjarmasin (n=38) and control class was students of class VA MI Al-Hamid Banjarmasin (n=36). Using reading comprehension and narrative writing test scores of students, multicultural approach questionnaire, and teaching assignment. This study reveals that multicultural approach affects reading comprehension and writing achievement and also becomes the best predictor of their experience and cultural knowledge, such as develops multiple perspectives, cultural counsciousness, increases intercultural competence, combats racism, sexiesm, prejudice, discrimination, and develops social action skills. Furthermore, multicultural approach has a significant effect and better than conventional teaching on students’ reading comprehension skills, and on writing skills are also better than convensional approach of teaching. As conclusion, multicultural approach can be considered as a teaching method in improving students’ reading comprehension and writing skills, from producing main idea and topik sentence, also writing non fiction text based on multicultural knowledge, awareness, skills and action. The research findings imply that teachers need to change their teaching model into multicultural approach and identify multicultural material to encourage students to do and bring up reading and writing activities related to tolerance.
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Furman, Andrew. "Jewish-American fiction and the multicultural curriculum in the United States; or, what is Jewish-American fiction?" English Academy Review 15, no. 1 (December 1998): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131759885310091.
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Shevchenko, Arina R. "The Representation of Racial and Ethnic Conflict in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah”." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 19, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 481–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2022-19-3-481-490.
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The relevance of the research undertaken is connected with the current tendency of multiculturalism in fiction, which has been developing and transforming with the appearance of new writers, to be non-static. Many contemporary authors have already become impossible to be correlated with a specific national literature since they have had the experience of living in more than one country and have been the bearers of several cultural codes due to their encounter with diverse mentalities as well as the formation of their own identity in the situation of cultural interaction. Ipso facto, it is possible to dwell on a new turn in the development of multicultural fiction to date. Suchlike state of affairs provides an opportunity to claim the necessity of scholarly comprehension of the works by the new multicultural authors’ generation. One of them is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), an African American female writer, whose creativity can be characterized as a sui generis phenomenon formed by the ‘fusion’ of African, British and American literary traditions. Her novel Americanah (2013) serves as the material for the study, the purpose of which is to consider the most significant peculiarities in the representation of racial and ethnic conflict in the text of contemporary multicultural fiction. Basing on the complex of historical and literary and social and cultural methods, the paper analyses the specifics of artistic embodiment of racial and ethnic and, consequently, cultural clash that influences on the main heroine’s self-identification process. The fact that the image of the central female character, a Nigerian immigrant to the US, is autobiographical substantiates the relevancy of biographical research method having been involved. The results obtained allow concluding that the only way out for the character, whose position mirrors the one of the writer herself, is hybridization, which allows including the experience of existence in American reality as well as self-realization as a part and parcel of the heroine’s native history, nation, tradition and culture.
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Sang-Joon Bae. "The Multicultural Look of Science Fiction Film －《District 9》(Neill Blomkamp, 2009)－." Film Studies ll, no. 59 (March 2014): 185–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.17947/kfa..59.201403.007.
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DeMichelis, Carey. "Transfusion Refusal and the Shifting Limits of Multicultural Accommodation." Qualitative Health Research 27, no. 14 (July 14, 2017): 2150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732317717961.
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The refusal of blood products by Jehovah’s Witness patients has provoked court proceedings, social science research, and contemporary fiction, all of which emphasize a seemingly intractable conflict between religious and secular ways of being. This article takes a different approach, focusing instead on the space that Witness patients have carved out for their accommodation in a major pediatric research hospital. Using discourse analysis and interview data, I map the way moralizing discourses surrounding Witness families have shifted over the past 70 years alongside advancements in bloodless medicine. I argue that Witnesses have helped to enable their present accommodation and recognition by marshaling particular forms of economic, human, and social capital, and consider whether their success might be attainable by other treatment-resisting patient groups. Thus, this article explores the shifting limits of multicultural accommodation and the conditions that make understanding, collaboration, and compromise possible.
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Honsalies-Munis, Svitlana. "MULTICULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF LINGUACULTURAL REALIA IN THE NOVEL ‘JAZZ’ BY TONY MORRISON." English and American Studies 1, no. 17 (December 22, 2020): 104–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382018.
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The article deals with the issue of linguistic and cultural realia and their peculiarities in Tony Morrison’s novel «Jazz». The study is carried out in the multicultural aspect and begins with the detailed analysis of the terms ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘multicultural literature’. The theoretical background of the article is based on the works of Taylor, Sanders, Gutmann,Zverev, Tolkachev, Denisova, Tlostanova in which they defined the concept of multiculturalism and dwelled on the issues of ethnic literatures and their peculiarities. The article focuses on the specific features of the multicultural phenomenon in AfricanAmerican society, on the issues of the national identity and language identity of African-Americanpeople. The article outlines the major means of expression the national and cultural code in the artistic text, gives the definition of the term ‘realia’, emphasizes the importance of these linguistic means in conveying the authentic cultural atmosphere of the text. Characteristic features of the novel «Jazz» are analyzed in the research as well as the use of various linguo-cultural devices such as anthroponyms, toponyms, cultural and historical realia, symbols, allusions, cultural myths. The peculiarities of the language of the protagonists are also studied in detail, such as the use of African American Vernacular English. The article outlines the brightest examples of the combination of language and culture in the work of fiction in the multicultural aspect.
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Ouyang, Wen-chin. "The Qur’an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 16, no. 3 (October 2014): 62–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2014.0166.
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How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of the Hui Chinese Muslims, who have been integrated into Sinophone and China’s multicultural community since the third/ninth century, when the first ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927 and 1931, and that by a Muslim from Arabic in 1932? This paper looks at the ways in which the Qur’an is imagined, then embodied, in literary texts authored by two prizewinning Chinese Muslim authors. Huo Da (b. 1945) alludes to the Qur’an in her novel The Muslim’s Funeral (1982), and transforms its teachings into ritual performances of alterity in her saga of a Muslim family at the turn of the twentieth century. Zhang Chengzhi (b. 1948) involves himself in reconstructing the history of the Jahriyya Ṣūfī sect in China between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in his only historical novel, A History of the Soul (1991), and invents an identity for Chinese Muslims based on direct knowledge of the sacred text and tradition.
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Firschein, Sylvia. "The Multicultural Curriculum and Children's Books of Jewish Interest in the Public School." Judaica Librarianship 8, no. 1 (September 1, 1994): 102–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1241.
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Books of Jewish interest in the public school are of two kinds. They may be informational, nonfiction works, generally classified in the religion section of the library's classification scheme. Such works are useful for those who are studying about Judaism and for those Jewish children in the school who need to see themselves reflected in the collection. Works in the second category, picture books and fiction, must be chosen for their universal value. The stories must appeal to all children, regardless of race or religion. Any child must be able to identify with the characters and incidentally learn something about Judaism.
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Susandi, Susandi. "PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR MATAKULIAH MENULIS FIKSI BERBASISNILAI-NILAI PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL PADA PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INDONESIA IKIP BUDI UTOMO MALANG." Paradigma: Jurnal Filsafat, Sains, Teknologi, dan Sosial Budaya 23, no. 2 (July 2, 2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.33503/paradigma.v23i2.323.
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The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) teaching material product; (2) the presentation; (3) the use of language; and (4) graphic writing fiction teaching materials based multicultural values.The design of the teaching materials development in this study was adapted from the theory of design R & D by Borg and Gall which is carried out through five stages: (1) preliminary study, (2) planning, (3) developing type/shape of the initial product, (4) early stage field trials and revision, (5) primary field trials and revision. Data analysis of this study is obtained percentage score (1) expert literature instructional materials of 98,9%, (2) proficient writing instructional materials 97.14%,(3) field practitioners in this case teacher of 76.67%,and (4) the students of 85.125%, which means that the percentage of product development is also quite valid/ feasible for learning offiction writing based multicultural values in the education program of language and Indonesian literature IKIP Budi Utomo Malang.
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Butenina, E. M. "VLADIVOSTOK AS A TRANSFER LOCUS IN ENGLISH FICTION." Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East 18, no. 1 (2021): 161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31079/1992-2868-2021-18-1-161-165.
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The paper discusses Vladivostok – “an eccentric city on the edge of cultural space”, in Yuri Lotman’s terms – as a locus of intercultural transfers (both in direct and indirect sense) in Somerset Maugham’s and Maurice Kennedy’s short stories as well as in William Gerhardie “novel on Russian themes” Futility. For Vladivostok (as for St. Petersburg whose natives founded the Pacific fort and became its first residents), railway stations and bridges are the key “topographic indices”, in Vladimir Toporov’s terms. For the transfer aspect various leisure institutions (restaurants, theatres, clubs) are also important as they mark existence outside home. Besides these cultural facilities, the locus of sea is important as it both divides and connects distant land locations. The paper argues that after Gerhardie’s novel Vladivostok entered English literary consciousness as a distant, practically unreachable topos of unfulfilled dreams. At least, this is the city’s function in the Irish author Maurice Kennedy’s short story titled “Vladivostok”. The expanding circle of city texts in cultural studies enables to discover new pages in literature. The “eccentric” marine cities such as St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, or New York have a special potential for such studies, since the sea routes initially determined their multicultural identity and a unique location sense for which the transfer possibility is just one of the many facets.
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Sedláčková, Lucie. "Tsjechische ballingschrijvers in Nederland: de positie van Jana Beranová en Jan Stavinoha in het literaire veld." Roczniki Humanistyczne 68, no. 5 Zeszyt specjalny (2020): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh20685sp-3.
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Dutch literature of the 1990s can be characterised by a significant boom in the so-called multicultural (or intercultural) authors (political refugees and second-generation migrants). Jana Beranová and Jan Stavinoha, two authors of Czech origin debuting in poetry and fiction in the early 1980s, did not fully participate in this trend. This article deals with the reception of these two exiles in the Netherlands, and the possibility of their entrance into the literary canon. One of the aspects investigated in more detail is their self-presentation, namely, whether, and to what extent, they assumed an exilic posture.
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Zerebeski, Andrea. "Reading Whiteness in Dear Canada and I Am Canada: Historical Fiction of a Multicultural Nation." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 1 (June 2015): 158–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.7.1.158.
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Zerebeski, Andrea. "Reading Whiteness in Dear Canada and I Am Canada: Historical Fiction of a Multicultural Nation." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 1 (2015): 158–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2015.0008.
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Agosto, Denise E., Sandra Hughes-Hassell, and Catherine Gilmore-Clough. "The All-White World of Middle-School Genre Fiction: Surveying the Field for Multicultural Protagonists." Children's Literature in Education 34, no. 4 (December 2003): 257–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:clid.0000004894.29271.bb.
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Malykh, Vyacheslav Sergeevich. "RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN HORROR FICTION AS A GENRE, CREATIVE WRITING AND EDUCATIONAL PHENOMENON: A PROBLEM STATEMENT." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 11, no. 1 (December 15, 2019): 63–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2019-11-63-69.
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Although the genre of horror has gained an extraordinary popularity in contemporary literature, it still raises controversy among specialists. The situation in Russia is especially complicated. Until the beginning of the 20th century, Russian horror fiction used to develop concurrently with the evolution of horror genre in the U.S., but after the revolution of 1917 and until the late 1980s this tradition was interrupted in Russia. Therefore, nowadays the question “What is horror fiction?” is unclear for Russian philologists, the question “How to write horror fiction?” is unclear for Russian writers, and including the horror genre in literature syllabus is regarded by Russian professors and teachers as a forbidden topic. The situation is different in the United States where a long-standing tradition of interpreting the category of the horrible has been created. Modern American scientists, philosophers, writers and educators agree that horror fiction in its best manifestations touches upon essential problems of a human soul. It allows to exert a powerful positive influence on the formation and development of a personality. Throughout the 20th century, the genre of horror was systematically evolving in the U.S., and as of today, it is American horror fiction that sets the standards of the genre all over the world. The aim of this research is to describe horror fiction as a dynamically developing genre from three points of view: 1) through comparative and genre analyzis of horror fiction in the U.S. and Russia; 2) by studying narrative strategies which are used by horror writers in the U.S.; 3) by surveying principles of teaching the horror genre in an American multicultural educational environment. After experiencing decades of oblivion, the genre of horror can revive in Russia thanks to the critical mastering of the U.S. experience, where the genre tradition has never been interrupted. A list of bibliography is attached to help beginner researchers with their study of the subject.
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Dubovitskaya, M. A. "Te “Concept – Image − Motive” Triad in Arab-American Fiction Literature." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-3-27-53-64.
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Arab-American multicultural, or cross-cultural, literature related to different time periods is closely examined in the article. Tese writings are part of borderline literature due to the fact that the central theme in them is the theme of dual (transitional) identity. Te author provides a defnition of “liminality”, which is necessary when considering the phenomena of bilingualism and biculturalism. Te relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in emigrant literature as a source of meanings scattered in the text, contributing to the understanding of the social and cultural context. Te motive, image and the concept are singled out in the works of Arab-American literature to decode hidden meanings. Te results of the analysis of the main motives, taken in diachrony, are presented, and their similarities and differences are revealed. Te fact that the same motives, for example, the motives of nature and music, are found in completely different works, speaks of their semantic, cultural and literary signifcance. Te novelty of the research is seen in the combination of linguo-literary and linguo-stylistic methods in the analysis of linguistic material, which helps to identify psychological, cultural and social aspects in the Arab-American fction discourse.
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Pasichnyk, N., N. Zakordonets, and O. Plavutska. "MULTICULTURAL DIGITAL DISCOURSE AS A DIRECTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH FICTION: PHILOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS." International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology, no. 54 (2022): 76–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32841/2409-1154.2022.54.18.
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Sholehhudin, Muhamad, Herman J. Waluyo, Suyitno Suyitno, and Nugraheni Eko Wardhani. "Evaluating the Use of Multicultural-based Short Story Appreciation Textbook to Teach Prose-Fiction Appreciation Course." International Journal of Instruction 13, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): 831–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/iji.2020.13153a.
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Leonard, Karen. "Sandhya Shukla. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (July 2005): 670–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750524029x.
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Sandhya Shukla has written a highly interdisciplinary comparison of Indian diasporic cultures in Britain and the United States. Specializing in Anthropology and Asian American Studies, she is particularly strong on historical and literary text analysis. She says, “The relational aspects of a range of texts and experiences, which include historical narratives, cultural organizations, autobiography and fiction, musical performance and films, are of paramount importance in this critical ethnography” (20). Contending that the Indian diaspora confronts “a simultaneous nationalism and internationalism,” she is celebratory about India and “formations of Indianness,” and uses phrases like “amazing force” and “wildly multicultural” (17). Her exploration shows “the tremendous impulse to multiple nationality that Indianness abroad has made visible” (14) and, “the amazing persistence of Indian cultures in so many places” (22).
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Kuchukova, Zukhra A., Liana B. Berberova, and Burkhan A. Berberov. "A new concept of three-dimensional study of fiction at the university." SHS Web of Conferences 103 (2021): 01021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110301021.
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The relevance of the study is due to the need to modernize the methodology of teaching literature in Russian regional universities, taking into account the current processes of globalization. The proposed method is conventionally called “Three flanks”, and provides for the study of national literature in close correlation with classical Russian and foreign literature. From the pedagogical standpoint, the system-synergetic approach is especially important for a multiethnic region, such as the North Caucasus. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the expediency and effectiveness of the comparative method of studying fiction and to propose a three-dimensional model, which is currently being tested at the framework of a special course at the Faculty of Philology of Kabardino-Balkarian State University. The authors used comparative-historical, system-structural, and axiological methods of scientific analysis. In order to harmonize the multicultural material, logical principles of analysis were used, namely, classification, typology, generalization, as well as the method of continuous sampling to identify representative texts. The article presents a pedagogical experiment that is currently being conducted in one of the North Caucasus universities. The essence of the experiment is a comparative study of national literature at the level of comparisons with world literature.
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Myambo, Melissa Tandiwe. "Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism?: M.G. Vassanji’s Hybrid Parables of Kenyan Nationalism." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 16, no. 1-2 (March 2012): 159–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.16.1-2.159.
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This article examines the relationship between cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and hybridity in contemporary theory and the fiction of M.G. Vassanji about the Indian diaspora in east Africa. The interregional space of the Indian Ocean has been posited as a historical site of multicultural hybridity, a precursor to globalization, and a productively theoretical example of contemporary postcolonial cosmopolitanism. Investigating these ideas more closely, I look specifically at the case of modern-day Kenyans of Indian descent and how they fare in the postcolonial nation, particularly in their positioning as “hybrid” middlemen. Engaging with some of the dominant theories regarding the relationship between cosmopolitanism and nationalism—with a particular emphasis on the place of hybridity within these theories, which pivotally divides nationalism from cosmopolitanism—I use Vassanji’s work to interrogate commonly held theoretical assumptions.
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Burns, Rob. "Picturing the New Berlin: Filmic Representations of the Postunification Capital." German Politics and Society 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2015.330112.
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Just as Berlin as a political, social, ethnic, and material entity has undergone considerable change since 1989, so too the cinematic representations of the new capital over the last twenty years or so have projected a diverse set of images of the city. This article considers a selection of fiction films that can be grouped together under three broad thematic category headings: those dealing with Berlin's past, those addressing the city's multicultural identity and, most substantially, those films in which the capital of the new "Berlin Republic" can be read as a metaphor for postunification Germany. What all three categories have in common, it is argued, is that the image of Berlin that emerges from most of these films remains an overwhelmingly negative one, with the city portrayed predominantly as a site of either conflict or disorientation.
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Steenberg, D. H. "Flitse van sosiale verandering in enkele postmodernistiese Afrikaanse romans." Literator 18, no. 3 (April 30, 1997): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.551.
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Glimpses of social change in some postmodernist Afrikaans novelsPostmodernist novels, and thus also Afrikaans postmodernist novels, are radically anti-traditional. In one respect, however, they maintain the tradition of Afrikaans fiction: they open perspectives on the development of the society from which they originate. Functioning in a multicultural community, the novelists' awareness often concerns the development of relations between different racial groupings in the South African society, which is seen as basically African. The breaking down of the (colonial) barriers between black and white by writers of historiographic metafiction - like John Miles and André Letoit - can perhaps be regarded the first step in the direction of social transition. Letoit hails Africa as the continent of promise, and authors like Berta Smit, Eben Venter and Etienne van Heerden present visions of a growing harmony between black and white in the new South Africa.
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Arnold, W. "Young EFL Pupils Reading Multicultural Children's Fiction: an Ethnographic Case Study in a Swedish Language Primary School in Finland." ELT Journal 62, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccm084.
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Ståhlberg, Sabira. "Window to a world beyond: Göran Schildt’s journey to Bulgaria and Romania in 1963 and some multilingual and multicultural strategies." Multiculturalism and multilingualism in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region 13, no. 1 (August 15, 2021): 47–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.53604/rjbns.v13i1_4.
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International traveller and acclaimed Swedish-language author Göran Schildt sailed in the Black Sea in the summer of 1963. He was a well-read scholar with a deep interest in the Antiquity and a seasoned traveller with a vast experience of multilingual and multicultural situations. This was the first and last visit of his yacht Daphne to the Black Sea and the Eastern Bloc. Through the eyes of this keen observer, a small aperture can be detected among the bricks in the walls dividing Europe. A window had been opened by world politicians in the Iron Curtain at the end of the 1950s. Although there were periods of high global tension, new possibilities for travel and tourism were created in some Eastern Bloc countries, among them Bulgaria and Romania. Visits by dozens of journalists, writers and artists and thousands of charter tourists from the Western Bloc over the next few decades opened up new windows to the world beyond the Iron Curtain. Göran Schildt stands out among the Nordic cultural visitors to Bulgaria and Romania in the post-war period. His desire to get acquainted with everyday life and ordinary people, capability to see behind facades and analysing experiences could be defined as journalistic, but his travel writing went deeper. In comparison with some other writers from Finland, who visited Bulgaria or Romania during the Cold War, such as the poet Lassi Nummi or comic fiction writer Arto Paasilinna, and the Bulgarian author Yordan Radichkov who visited Sweden, Schildt’s background, interests and multilingual and multicultural strategies supported the discovery and collection of extensive information and the processing of it into a multidimensional travel book. This article discusses the journey and travel narrative of Göran Schildt from the perspective of multilingual and multicultural strategies for encountering other languages, societies and cultures, and the processing of experiences as recorded in his diary and his popular travel narrative.
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Van Vuuren, H. "‘Op die limiete’: Karel Schoeman se Verkenning (1996)." Literator 18, no. 3 (April 30, 1997): 57–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v18i3.549.
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‘At the limits’: Karel Schoeman’s Verkenning (1996)Written from the postcolonial vantage point of the new South Africa, Karel Schoeman's Verkenning (Reconnaissance) deals with the colonial era of the early nineteenth century. Through metafictional commentary the reader is alerted to the provisionality and tentativeness of historical fiction, as fiction and historical facts are constantly juxtaposed. At the same time the novel can be read as an attempt to fathom the ‘darkness’ of the bygone era, and to throw ‘light’ on the nature of intercultural relationships during the period of the Batavian Republic (1803-1806). Of central importance, however, is the way in which the consciousness of a new era is suggested through the subtle functioning of numerous intertexts. These intertexts deal with various forms of transitional consciousness, such as those associated with the French Revolution. A remarkable characteristic of the novel is its historiographic metafictionality, an innovative element in Schoeman’s oeuvre. Verkenning (Reconnaissance) is a polyphonic novel in which a collage of voices is foregrounded and presented in the process of ‘exploring’. From within the politically transformed multicultural South Africa of the late twentieth century, the creative imagination explores the roots of this society in the history of almost two centuries ago. In this respect Verkenning may be characterised as a postcolonial narrative construct and thus part of "oorgangsliteratuur" or “Wendeliteratur”, a term coined for the literature produced after the political change in 1989/1990 in Germany.
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Gligorijević, Ivana R. "ARAPSKI ROMAN ALIJENACIJE: „BAMBUSOVA STABLjIKA“ SAUDA SANUSIJA." Nasledje Kragujevac XIX, no. 52 (2022): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/naskg2252.193g.
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This paper deals with the problem of alienation in Saud Alsanousi’s (Saud al-San‘ūsī, 1981) novel The Bamboo Stalk (Sāq al-bāmbū, 2012), which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (often referred to as the Arabic Booker) in 2013. With first-person narration, the novel tells a story about a half-Filipino, half-Kuwaiti teen who is struggling with his hybrid iden- tity. Set partly in the postcolonial Philippines, partly in oil-rich Kuwait, this novel depicts the main character’s quest for a place where he belongs. The Bamboo Stalk is a heartbreaking story about alienation, non-belonging, non-acceptance, identity, and „otherness”. Alsanousi portrays life in the multicultural society of Kuwait while shedding light on conservatism, dis- crimination, racism, and lack of human rights. Due to the high influx of foreign workers, huge socio-economic differences between people, and rigid social norms, Kuwait is the place where people often feel alienated, frustrated, and unable to fit in. The theme of alienated modern man has been common in contemporary Arabic fiction, and central to a vast number of literary studies. It is also one of the themes of the Kuwaiti literature, which is still very young. The Kuwaiti novel has not received the attention it deserves from Arabic literature scholars yet. We believe that The Bamboo Stalk is worth the attention because it contributes to the development of Kuwaiti novels both thematically and formally while exploring problems of different social groups in contemporary Kuwait.
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Kamalova, S. D. "Linguistic imagology: origin and application." Professional Discourse & Communication 2, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2020-2-3-10-22.
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The article dwells on the origin and development of linguistic imagology, a new field of research which studies the linguistic aspect of foreign image representation in fiction literature, mass media and other types of discourse, as well as the linguistic means of reflecting the relations between the auto-image (image of “the self”) and the hetero-image (image of “the other”). The specific approach offered in the paper is based on the analysis of nine multicultural novels about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict written in English. It consists in singling out two degrees of estrangement between the auto- and the hetero-image, with alienation and the image of an alius making an accent on differences and misunderstanding, and alterity together with the image of an alter, on similarities and propinquity. Lexico-semantic and stylistic analysis of the novels, carried out in the article, reveals linguistic tools which are employed to represent the hetero-image as either an alius or an alter.
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Chakramakkil, Anto Thomas. "The Polemics of Real and Imagined Childhood(s) in India." International Research in Children's Literature 10, no. 1 (July 2017): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2017.0219.
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This essay attempts to map historical, literary and social constructions of childhood in India and to explore ways in which these differ from Western-dominated, globalised attitudes to childhood. Evidence about Indian childhood is drawn from across a narrative spectrum including children's books and films and some adult writing and media. Notions of childhood are different within and across the cultures of the world; while there is no ‘correct’ version of childhood, many have common features and sometimes the influences of one culture can be strongly felt in another. In India, for example, a dominant construction of childhood was imported through Western education.1After Independence (1947), Indian children's literature in English became caught up in the mass postcolonial project of nation-building. As part of becoming emancipated from colonial rule, a dominant image of the child in fiction based on Western childhood had to be replaced by one that is hybrid and multicultural. This construction of Indian childhood is now itself being buffeted by forces of cultural homogenisation.2
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Rotich, Robert. "‘For Whom There Is Hope’: Imagining Freedom in Selected Post-apartheid South African Fiction." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2022/v3n3a3.
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Following the election of Nelson Mandela as the first black president of South Africa and the formation of the first majority government of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994, it was generally assumed that new bonds between South Africa’s white and black races would be forged and a new economic and social order would be established. Hence, the new government promised to lead the transition towards an all-inclusive society that would be a reflection of the linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity of the country. This larger dream was enshrined, in part, in the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that was expected to provide a sense of moral and ethical direction for the country. This article interrogates K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001), Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2007) and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) to uncover the extent to which the different races and classes aspire towards a hopeful and inclusive ‘non-racial’ ethical future. Reading the Rainbow nation alongside its images of nation building and inclusive development, this article builds upon dominant national symbols that portray social, economic, cultural and political reforms in the country. The four texts are evaluated on the basis of the suggested intimated freedoms in those for ‘whom there is hope’ in the ‘new’ South Africa. Locating the place of ethics in contemporary South African literature, the article interrogates the images of the ‘new’ nation and the dominant tropes of sympathy, reconciliation, friendship, forgiveness, and nation building as espoused in the four post-apartheid novels. The article further evaluates the interactions between the different racial and ethnic groups forging forward a collective multicultural nationhood in the present moment.
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Nursalim, Nursalim. "Model Bacaan Anak Berbasis Kearifan Lokal." Instructional Development Journal 3, no. 2 (August 31, 2020): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24014/idj.v3i2.10872.
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This paper is generally aimed at generating an innovative multicultural-based learning model that meets the basic educational goals that can be used in schools and madrasah. Multicultural-based learning model in the form of preschool children's reading models, traditional literature, fiction, biography and autobiography, science, poetry and poetry. Reading is based on local wisdom is a reading about the cultural life of the surrounding community or area of education location. Writing a local-based story is an open story of local cultural themes. Local-based education is education that utilizes local and global advantages in economic, arts and cultural aspects, human resources, language, information and communication technology, ecology, etc. into the school curriculum which ultimately benefits the development of competencies of learners that can be utilized for competition global. Local wisdom sources are human potential, religious potential, cultural potential. While the purpose of local wisdom-based education or the advantage of providing knowledge, skills and behavior to learners so that they have a solid insight about the state of the environment and the needs of the community in accordance with the values / rules prevailing in the region and support regional development and national development. While the specific purpose of local wisdom-based education is so that students more familiar with and become more familiar with the natural environment, social, and cultural. Students have the provision of skills and knowledge and knowledge about the area that is useful for themselves as well as the community in general. Students have attitudes and behaviors that are in harmony with the values / rules that apply in the area and preserve and develop the noble values of local culture in order to support regional development and national development.
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Karasik-Updike, Olga B. "Contemporary Jewish Prose in the USA." Literature of the Americas, no. 10 (2021): 100–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-10-100-134.
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The essay presents an overview of Jewish American prose of the second half of the 20th — first two decades of the 21st century within the context of multicultural literature of the USA. The definition of Jewish literature remains a matter of debate. The author of the essay based on the opinions of critics concludes on the criterion for assigning a writer to Jewish literature. It is the artistic embodiment of the personal Jewish experience and identity in the works of literature, the view “from inside,” the perspective of collective memory and the connection to history and culture. Jewish literature today is one of the most developed ethnic segments of multicultural American literature. Writers under study are recognized throughout the world, their works have been translated into many languages, including Russian, they are known to readers and have already become the subject of study by literary scholars. Today, Jewish American literature is represented by two generations of writers. “Senior” generation includes the authors born in the 1920s–30s who began their literary careers in the 60s when there was a generational change in national literature. “Young” generation is represented by the writers who began their literary careers in the 2000s. On the example of the works of the most famous authors of both generations, the author of the essay talks about the factors determining the specific features of Jewish American prose and its characteristic themes, problems, and motives: the search for identity and roots, the representation and rethinking of the Holocaust, ethnic stereotypes, the image of the Jewish family, and the traditions of Jewish humor. The study of the works of modern Jewish writers in the United States allows us to draw conclusions about the display of border consciousness, national and ethnic identity, and collective memory in fiction.
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Romanovska, Alina. "Regional Identity and Multiculturalism: the Baltic Germans of Latgale in the Early 20th Century Latvian Literature." Respectus Philologicus 40, no. 45 (October 11, 2021): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2021.40.45.93.
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In the studies of Latvian culture and history, there is a number of investigations dedicated to the influence of Baltic German culture on Latvian culture. Hence the Latgale region was not given due attention in this regard. The role of the Baltic Germans in this region is peculiar due to its specific history, and it is important to study how the Baltic German culture influences the multicultural identity of Latgale. A project of the Latvian Science Council The Baltic Germans of Latgale in the context of socio-ethnic relations from the 17th until the beginning of the 20th century (2020–2021) is devoted to this topic. One of the tasks of the project is the analysis of the image of the Baltic Germans in fiction. In the framework of the research, the works written in the Latvian literary language, the action of which is set in Latgale, are analysed. The focus is on fictional works about Latgale written by two authors – Antons Austriņš (1884–1934) and Ādolfs Ers (1885–1945) – in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The said writers are the first currently distinguished authors narrating in the Latvian literary language, who describe Latgale in a number of their works. Compared to other nationalities (Poles, Russians, Jews), the Baltic Germans are mentioned minimally in their works; moreover, it is a commonplace that in some cases protagonist’s belonging to German descent is not mentioned, which can only be inferred. Although the Baltic Germans belong to the Latgale past, their culture is imperceptibly and harmoniously apparent in Latgale, i.e. it is evident in the castles (castle ruins) and manors as well as in the use of Germanisms by the Baltic Germans, it has determined the location of the Latgale cities and influenced the worldview.
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Ibinga, S. S. "Translating cultural transition in Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207." Literator 31, no. 1 (July 13, 2010): 57–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i1.37.
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This article deals with the issue of cultural translation in a postapartheid text through the analysis of language, setting and discourse to highlight cultural transition in a society where socio-political mutations elicit new literary codes and symbols. The discussion is developed around concepts such as gender and ethnic identity or citizenship in a geographical environment where multi- and transcultural identities are endlessly being contested. The concept of translation is explored to show how Moele’s text represents cultural transition within a postapartheid urban context by analysing the authorial transposition of everyday experience into the textual fabric. The article also examines how the narrative voice negotiates across the current multicultural divide in order to highlight cultural change both in South African literature and in society as a whole. This article addresses in the discussion the controversial debate raised by Michael Titlestad’s (2007) review of the book published in the “Sunday times” on 25 March in which the critic evinces a negative reception of the book. This is used as a point of departure in order to explore a wide range of possibilities that fiction can offer by means of textual representation of the daily experience of black people in a postapartheid urban context.
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Bahfen, Nasya. "1950s vibe, 21st century audience: Australia’s dearth of on-screen diversity." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 25, no. 1&2 (July 31, 2019): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v25i1and2.479.
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The difference between how multicultural Australia is ‘in real life’ and ‘in broadcasting’ can be seen through data from the Census, and from Screen Australia’s most recent research into on screen diversity. In 2016, these sources of data coincided with the Census, which takes place every five years. Conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this presents a ‘snapshot’ of Australian life. From the newest Census figures in 2016, it appears that nearly half of the population in Australia (49 percent) had either been born overseas (identifying as first generation Australian) or had one or both parents born overseas (identifying as second generation Australian). Nearly a third, or 32 percent, of Australians identified as having come from non-Anglo Celtic backgrounds, and 2.8 percent of Australians identify as Indigenous (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander). Nearly a fifth, or 18 percent, of Australians identify as having a disability. Screen Australia is the government agency that oversees film and TV funding and research. Conducted in 2016, Screen Australia’s study looked at 199 television dramas (fiction, excluding animation) that aired between 2011 and 2015. The comparison between these two sources of data reveals that with one exception, there is a marked disparity between diversity as depicted in the lived experiences of Australians and recorded by the Census, and diversity as depicted on screen and recorded by the Screen Australia survey.
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Yerbulatova, Ilmira Kanatovna, Gelinya Khajretdinovna Gilazetdinova, and Aigul Galimzhanovna Bozbayeva. "Peculiarities of Kazakh Reality Translation with Cultural-Historical Educational Components." International Journal of Higher Education 8, no. 8 (December 23, 2019): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v8n8p51.
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The development of intercultural relations and the globalization of multicultural civilization gives rise to the need for educational study the elements found in the language of each nation, not only in the national-cultural aspect but also in comparative translation. At the present stage of translation educational study development, special attention is paid to the issues of the national and historical specifics of the original work preservation and transmission in the process of translation into the language of another culture. This article discusses the linguistic realities and their role in the national and historical identity reflection of a different culture, presented in the context of a work of art. As the result of the study, the methods of Kazakh historical reality transmission are analyzed, and the specifics of their translation into Russian is described on the basis of the works of Kazakh writer Dukenbai Doszhan (XX century). The article highlights the sign of the “dual nature” of historical realities in archaized texts of fiction, on which the choice of a translation solution depends. The main results and conclusions of the study presented in this article show that the distance in time and space separating the source text from the text of translation inevitably leads to national-cultural biases, which should be taken into account during a text translation that must be adequate to the original text.
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Emir, Derya. "DISCRIMINATION, ASSIMILATION, and CULTURAL IDENTITY in TAHAR BEN JELLOUN'S LEAVING TANGIER." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 2, no. 1 (December 30, 2014): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v2i1.p25-33.
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In today's multicultural countries, cultural diversity, hybridity, assimilation, and cultural identity are key issues. By focusing on the problem of immigration and its inevitable traumatic results on the migrants, Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier fully presents Azel (the protagonist) and his acquaintances' search for identity in terms of history, religion, nationality and cultural identity. Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier is the story of a Moroccan brother and sister who are burning with the desire to migrate to Spain in order to attain better life. The accomplishment of their dreams actualizes at the cost of some compromises and sacrifices that end with the protagonists' physical, emotional failure, and annihilation. The winner of Prix Goncourt for La Nuit Sacrée (The Sacred Night) in 1987, a Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun is one of the most prolific and important writers of the recent years. As a novelist and critic, Ben Jelloun artfully combines the fact and fiction, past and present, East and West in his works. in this respect, he creates multidimensional writings that can be read and interpreted from several perspectives. Tahar Ben Jelloun's Leaving Tangier (2006) presents the issues of "wounded childhood," "solitude," "displacement," and "alienation" both individually and collectively in the colonial history of Tangier. This study focuses on the issues of discrimination, assimilation, and cultural identity, experienced by the characters in the novel, resulting from the immigration of individuals from their homelands to Europe in order to find better life conditions.
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Wang, Hui. "We Are Not Free to Choose: Class Determinism in Zadie Smith’s NW." arcadia 51, no. 2 (November 1, 2016): 385–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2016-0029.
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AbstractNW by Zadie Smith opens with a multicultural and multiracial scene and revolves around the crises in the lives of four people with longstanding connection to Northwest London. The Northwest London in NW is a besieged city, and the people therein could not see any possibility of getting out because the gate has been latched with the concept of social class. In NW, the social class is materialized as space, economic position and race. Geographically NW features the main areas of London, and considers the role of that city in shaping the consciousness of the major characters, a partly spatial configuring of identity. In addition, the major characters in NW also suffer from occupational exclusion and economic exploitation, which then lead to their lower-class position since social class is constructed in such a way that agents are distributed according to their positions in the statistical distribution based on the economic and cultural capital. Finally the racial discrimination encountered by the characters in NW shows that class relations shape the form that racial oppression takes. The racialization of class issues becomes a politically effective tool for the wealthy to divide and rule the lower classes. In NW, Smith thus has adopted a more political attitude than in her previous books, so the relatively new perspective of her fiction might be the attention she draws to the persistent obstacles to class crossing and the acknowledgment of the rigid lines that still define the social classes.
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Russell, David L. "From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics, and: Young Adult Fiction by African American Writers, 1968-1993: A Critical and Annotated Guide, and: Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (review)." Lion and the Unicorn 22, no. 1 (1998): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.1998.0003.
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Bofua, Roger. "Transnationalism and Multiculturalism: Towards Re-Reading Herman Melville’s Mardi." Global Academic Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 4 (August 13, 2022): 148–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/gajhss.2022.v04i04.003.
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Transnationalism and multiculturalism are concepts that tend to collocate, as the occurrence of one undoubtedly calls in the other. This is because when people go across their national boundaries to other localities, they go with their culture and come in contact with other cultures which when merged, gives rise to a multicultural society in which several cultures or ethnic groups co-exist within the same geographical space. This paper aims at analyzing trans- border migration and its consequences on the culture of those involved in the process. The paper therefore sets out to examine the assertion that in Herman Melville’s Mardi, the movement or migration of characters beyond national frontiers results in multiculturalism. The study proves that there exist some relationship between Transnationalism and Multiculturalism and that these two concepts have been used in Herman Melville’s Mardi to buttress the fact that the cosmopolitan nature of man gives him the opportunity to be associated with travels and a mixture of cultures. Theories of Tran’s nationality and Transnationalism will be used in the analysis of the work under study. The former refers to the rise of new communities and the formation of new social identities and relations that cannot be defined through the traditional reference point of nation-states. The later, closely associated, denotes a range of social, cultural and political practices and states brought about by the sheer increase in social connectivity across borders. These theories will help in establishing the fact that transnationalism enhances multiculturalism in Melville’s fiction.
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Usatenko, Galyna, and Tamara Usatenko. "UKRAINIAN-AUSTRALIAN LITERARY HORIZON: CHALLENGES OF ESTABLISHMENT." Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, no. 29 (2021): 181–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2021.29.25.
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The article considers the role of Ukrainian literature in the preservation of native culture in Australia of immigrants from Ukraine in the first wave of settlement and the decline of interest in literature in the country of emigrants in the next waves of arrival. The increased attention of the first Ukrainian immigrants to fiction as a unique factor in preserving the mentality in the multicultural society, the formation of public identity, the development of worldview and cognitive, socio-humanitarian, sociopolitical beliefs of the community, each individual. Stages, forms, methods, approaches in the organization of mass literary education of Ukrainian settlers, the activity of literary, non-literary (cultural, sports, professional), commercial and noncommercial structures of the community in the organization of literary process is revealed: selection for reading of classical literature, financial support of writers, participation in printing literary texts, distributing, filling libraries with literature, etc. The contribution of book lovers' circles to the unity of the community, improvement of communication, personal relations, raising interest in reading Ukrainian literature, comprehension of the content of what is read is proved. The role of writers, writers' associations, organizations, literary studios, scientists, public activists in the development of cultural, artistic, literary, educational processes has been studied. The special role of Ukrainian studies centers of universities in Australia in the development of scientific foundations of education, literary studies simultaneously with the solution of economic and economic development, integration into the civil society of the state of Australia. The isolation of the factors of Ukrainian studies from the basis of Ukrainian studies is substantiated. Attention is paid to modern literary studies of the young gener ation of Ukrainian scientists born in Australia (field theory, network, art aesthetics, etc.) through the prism of postmodernist ideas of Western European culture. It is noted about the integration of the Ukrainian literary network into the Australian socio-cultural space. The connections and cooperation of Ukrainian studies centers in Australia with literary institutions of Ukraine, international scientific literary studies, Ukrainian studies centers are highlighted. The emergence of conflicts, conflicts of interest, desires, understanding of opposing views that appear in the process of communication between Ukrainian immigrants of the first wave of settlement and the representatives of the next stages, the preconditions of which are based on objective and subjective conditions. It is noted that the joint solution of inconsistencies based on cooperation and the development of constructive decisions is far from a positive clarification. Challenges, inconsistencies of the emigrant community of the first and subsequent waves of settlement, difficulties of preservation of identity, language, traditions, culture in the multicultural environment are found out.
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Rabizo-Birek, Magdalena. "Schulz poetów „ośmielonej wyobraźni” (preliminaria)." Schulz/Forum, no. 13 (October 28, 2019): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/sf.2019.13.05.
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The paper addresses the popularity of the person and work of Bruno Schulz in one of the trends in Polish poetry, represented by the generation born in the 1970s, placing it in the context of the writer’s earlier reception (e.g., in the works of the poets of older generations, such as Marian Jachimowicz, Tadeusz Różewicz, Jerzy Ficowski, Anna Frajlich, and Jarosław Gawlik). This trend has been usually referred to with a metaphorical term “bold imagination” and called “imiaginativism”, and its main representatives are Roman Honet, Tomasz Różycki, Radosław Kobierski, and Bartłomiej Majzel. Close to that group are also Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, Dariusz Pada, and Mariusz Tenerowicz. All of them consider Schulz, who called the entire genuine literature “poetry,” their mentor and patron, both as a writer and a graphic artist, whose heritage includes also the works that are unfinished or lost, and as such, they encourage continuing his ideas (such as the novel Messiah). For them, he is also the founder of a “trend” based on the primacy of imagination, visions, the mythicization of reality, and a creative approach to cultural traditions. The poets have been also inspired by Schulz’s literary legend whose elements are his double Polish and Jewish identity, the family and erotic psychodramas, life in a provincial and multicultural Galician town as well as the necessity to combine a literary career with the humdrum teacher’s job and his tragic death in the Holocaust. Referring to the motifs drawn from Schulz’s life and work, the imaginativists, poets and fiction writers, write apocrypha and elegies in which Schulz continues his “posthumous life.” The author considers all the modes of his presence in the poetry of the “bold imagination”: as a literary precursor, as the favorite master, as an emblem of the Holocaust, and as a protagonist of a biographical legend. She interprets the programmatic statements of Honet, Majzel, and Różycki, where Schulz figures prominently, right before other highly appreciated poets, writers, and artists: Rilke, Kafka, Trakl, and Schiele. Then she interprets the early poems by Honet, Kobierski, Nowakowska, and Pada, which include the characteristic motifs of Schulz’s fiction: a sanatorium, a phantasmagoric town, the Book, a comet, and the realities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the belle époque. It has been stressed that the later Schulzean “biographical apocrypha” of the imaginativists (Tomasz Cieślak’s coinage), which develop the alternative versions of his life, are rooted in the projects of alternative histories (“side courses of time,” the “thirteenth months”) to be found in his fiction, as well as the visionary ways of prolonging life of the dead (particularly in “The Sanatorium under the Sign of an Hourglass” and the “Treatise on Tailor’s Dummies”). The Schulzean poems of the imaginativists are full of biographical details – their authors, imitating the poetics of their master, quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing his texts or referring to his life experience and vicissitudes, write first of all about themselves. Schulz’s biography and work turn out to be an unusually flexible medium, a figure of the contemporary (particularly Polish) artist, and a mirror for the writers of late modernity, who get a chance to understand themselves and perhaps confirm their own poetic calling.