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Across Continents and Cultures |
The term "global village" appears to have been coined by Wyndham Lewis in his
book America and Cosmic Man in 1948. As intelligent and concerned
citizens of Western nations, we are increasingly being called upon to expand
our cultural horizons. Aside from travel to other lands for business or
pleasure and the study of foreign languages and world history, surely the
best way of coming to an understanding of the world beyond us is through
reading the best of what accomplished authors from other nations have
written. Often writers of fiction and memoir not only convey the most
direct and authentic sort of information about what life is like, for
example, in India or Nigeria, about the sights, sounds, and smells of the
place, about the beliefs and customs, but also they offer the most sensitive
and powerful insights onto their world. In reading the books in this series
we will be taken outside of ourselves, perhaps outside of our comfort
zones, at least temporarily, and we will leave the books feeling that we
have been invited in, that we have become, briefly at least, insiders,
citizens of another place and ethos, participants in another culture.
"Across Cultures and Continents" theme materials created for Let's Talk About it by Ron McFarland, University of Idaho, 2007. |
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6:30 PM Thursday January 10th. |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (2000) [China] |
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6:30 PM Thursday February 7th. |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) [Afghanistan] |
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6:30 PM Thursday March 6th. |
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire (2003) [Cuba] |
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6:30 PM Thursday April 10th. |
The Space Between Us by Thirty Umigar (2006) [India] |
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6:30 PM Thursday May 8th. |
The Road from Corain by Jill Kerr (1989) [Australia] |
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New titles that were just released.
Dreamers of the Day
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