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Writing Journeys across Cultural Borders

Author : Elena V. Shabliy

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 37,72 MB

Release : 2021-10-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1666900354

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Narratives of journeys, voyages, and pilgrimages often guide readers to questions about humanism and humanity from a holistic perspective. The chapters in this volume explore narratives of both real and imagined journeys and examine their religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical implications. What emerges is an understanding of narratives of journeys across cultural borders as powerful educational tools that can model and contribute to meaningful dialogue with other states, cultures, and civilizations.



Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures

Author : Le-Ha Phan

Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 39,9 MB

Release : 2011-01-27

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 0857247204

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Provides insights into the process of knowledge construction in EFL/ESL writing - from classrooms to research sites, from the dilemmas and risks NNEST student writers experience in the pursuit of true agency to the confusions and conflicts academics experience in their own writing practices.



Traveling to Unknown Places

Author : Lloyd S. Kramer

Publisher : UNC Press Books

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 11,86 MB

Release : 2024-09-24

Category : History

ISBN : 1469682419

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Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after the social upheavals of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions. Delving into the experiences of renowned figures like Flora Tristan and Margaret Fuller alongside lesser-known postrevolutionary travelers, this book illuminates how cross-cultural encounters pushed writers to redefine their views of nationality, language, race, slavery, gender, religion, science, and political ideologies. Lloyd Kramer deftly demonstrates how unsettling journeys challenged cultural preconceptions and fostered introspective writings that transcended geographical boundaries. By interweaving the perspectives of women and men whose travels led them far beyond their youthful social origins, Kramer unveils a rich tapestry of evolving selfhood, ambition, and political consciousness across the Atlantic world. Each traveler's experience was unique, but long journeys connected all these nineteenth-century writers with others who had traveled before; and trips into unknown, distant cultures also carried travelers toward previously unknown places within themselves.



Across Cultures / Across Borders

Author : Paul Depasquale

Publisher : Broadview Press

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 39,59 MB

Release : 2009-12-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1770480161

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Across Cultures/Across Borders is a collection of new critical essays, interviews, and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging Canadian Aboriginal and Native American scholars and creative writers across Turtle Island. Together, these original works illustrate diverse but interconnecting knowledges and offer powerfully relevant observations on Native literature and culture.



Feminist Postcolonial Theory

Author : Reina Lewis

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 768 pages

File Size : 11,33 MB

Release : 2003-07-29

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1136785191

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Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethink



Lost Children Archive

Author : Valeria Luiselli

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 41,14 MB

Release : 2020-02-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0525436464

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NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.



Journeys to the Other Shore

Author : Roxanne L. Euben

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 42,15 MB

Release : 2008-07-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1400827493

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The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.



Writing New Identities

Author : Gisela Brinker-Gabler

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 30,53 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780816624607

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A Companion to Tourism

Author : Alan A. Lew

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 643 pages

File Size : 13,4 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0470752262

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This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for tourism. A critical overview of current research in tourism studies. Offers readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent developments, such as terrorist attacks, SARS and the financial failure of airlines. Comprises 48 specially commissioned essays, written by more than 50 acknowledged experts from around the world. Covers cutting-edge perspectives and topics, including tourism’s role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism development. Sets an agenda for future tourism research. Includes a wealth of bibliographic references.



Jollof Across Borders: Tips for International Catering

Author : Yetunde Adesina

Publisher : Yetunde Adesina

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 44,43 MB

Release : 2024-08-14

Category : Cooking

ISBN :

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Dive into the rich and flavorful world of Jollof rice with "Jollof Across Borders: Tips for International Catering." This captivating book takes you on a culinary journey through the vibrant kitchens of West Africa and beyond, offering invaluable insights for anyone passionate about food and culture. In "Jollof Across Borders: Tips for Catering Abroad," you will follow the adventures of Ada, a passionate Nigerian chef who took her dexterity in Jollof rice cooking to a new territory Canada. Each chapter unfolds the ups and downs of catering in far-off lands, while learning practical tips that make international catering not just possible, but extraordinary. Ada navigates through the complexities of catering in a different environment. You will chuckle, learn, and sometimes gasp at the kitchen mishaps that occur as Ada strives to deliver authentic and delicious Jollof rice in unfamiliar settings. These stories are not just entertaining but also educational, offering practical advice and tips for anyone looking to cater or cook abroad. At the end of each chapter, the book provides clear, actionable tips derived from Ada's experiences. These include how to source local ingredients, adapt recipes to suit local tastes, and manage the logistics of catering in a foreign country. Whether you are a professional caterer, a chef, or a home cook dreaming of sharing your culinary creations with the world, this book offers invaluable insights. "Jollof Across Borders" celebrates the power of food to connect people across cultures. Through Ada's journey, you will see how food can be a bridge, bringing people together and creating memorable experiences. This book is not just about cooking but about embracing new experiences, learning from them, and growing as a person and a professional. Join Ada on this flavorful journey, and let "Jollof Across Borders" inspire you to embark on your own culinary adventures. Enjoy the stories, savor the tips, and get ready to create your own delicious memories, no matter where in the world you find yourself.