Caging the Lion
Cross-Cultural Fictions
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-8204-1912-1 (ISBN)
Description
One of the greatest challenges facing Western society today is that of coming to terms with societies other than our own. Caging the Lion summarizes the current contradictions surrounding this challenge, considers the ways in which the West expresses its uneasy relationship with the world outside, and offers some clarity regarding a troubling topic. Fleming suggests that neither the right nor the left is able to solve this problem alone. He proposes that the time has come to put polemics aside in favor of a common-sense approach.
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Person
The Author: Bruce Fleming is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Fleming previously taught at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau and was a Fulbright Professor at the National University of Rwanda, Africa. He received an O. Henry short story award in 1990 and his treatise in aesthetics, An Essay in Post-Romantic Literary Theory, won the 1991 Book Award in Comparative Studies of the Norheast Modern Language Association.
Content
Contents: Contemporary American Literary Theory - Non-Western Literature and Performance Forms - Arts Criticism - Teaching Literature - Africa.