From the Outer World
Published on 1. January 1997
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-674-32639-2 (ISBN)
Description
New "voyagers" in the 20th century, from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America, record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans do not differ dramatically from those of their predecessors, but clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of the author. These literary products have earned far less attention than those of the English, French, Germans, and Russians, and this volume aims to redress the balance. The earliest of the travel accounts is from Rabindranath Tagore in 1924, and the most recent is from V.S. Naipaul in 1989. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish. These writers have noted the repercussions of unsettled lives, perceived class differences, contention regarding the position of women, and many other issues of concern.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 161 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-32639-2 (9780674326392)
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Content
A monotony of multitudes (1924), Rabindranath Tagore; Looking for work (1920s), J.B. Murray; Among migrants (1930s), Carlos Bulosan; Education as a way up (1934), Nnamdi Azikiwe; Cultural strains (1934), No-Yong Park; World without ghosts (1943), Fei Xiaoting; Being poor in America (1940s), Chiang Yee; The American character (1949), Abbas Masudi; Fundamentalism (1949), Sayyid Qutb; Power and patriotism (1951), Hidesaburo Kurushima; Encounters with racism (1957), Kwamw Nkrumah; Glimpses of urban life (1962), Manuel Zapata Olivella; Vedanta Plaza (1964), R.K. Narayan; Child-rearing and national character (1968), Sotokichi Katsuizumi; Measures of affluence (1963), Hanoch Bartov; Harlem (1965), Nat Nakasa; Food in America (1970), Liang Shiqiu; Hollywood yoga (1977), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas; In the backwoods (1977), Choong Soon Kim; Living habits (1978), Wang Ruoshui; Youth (1979), Xiao Qian; New societies (1979), Fei Xiaotong; Spacious yet confining (1982), Liu Binyan; A massive society (1984), Liu Zongren; Outcasts of the western world (1985), Octavio Paz; Life by the clock (1989), Abdul Hamid; The contradictions of modernity (1990), Aftab Iqbal; Undisciplined youth (1993), Jide Nzelibe; Survivals (1989) V.S. Naipaul.