Title:
Across cultures : a reader for writers
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Edition:
8th ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Longman, c2011
Physical Description:
xxx, 448 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780205780372
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Summary
Summary
Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students.
The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets. For example, the readings in "Work," the subject of Chapter 5, lead students to consider related subjects such as affirmative action, immigration, cultural displacement, family narratives, and definitions of success. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills.Table of Contents
| Rhetorical Contents |
| Preface for the Teacher |
| Preface for the Student |
| Chapter 1 Writing, the "Writing Process," and You |
| Literacy Narratives |
| Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative |
| Chapter 2 Family and Community |
| How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore |
| People Like Us, David Brooks |
| Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg |
| Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky ., Trikartikaningsih Byas |
| We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle |
| Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich |
| Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib |
| Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
| For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat |
| The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman |
| The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie |
| One Voice, Susan G. Madera |
| Solidarity, Charles Neuman |
| Chapter 3 Gender Issues |
| The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale |
| Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend |
| Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh |
| To Be a Man, Gary Soto |
| Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino |
| Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman |
| Gay, Anna Quindlen |
| Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan |
| The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone |
| He and I, Natalia Ginzburg |
| The Storm, Kate Chopin |
| Chapter 4 Education |
| The Bar of Gold |
| A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald |
| Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee |
| A Letter to a Child Like Me, Josÿ Torres |
| Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin |
| The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria |
| Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn |
| The Fender-Bender, Ramòn "Tianguis" Pÿrez |
| When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant |
| Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist's Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi |
| From Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall |
| My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona |
| Chapter 5 Work |
| My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden) |
| Life Stories, Michael Dorris |
| Why We Work, Andrew Curry |
| Essential Work by John Patterson |
| Black Hair, Gary Soto |
| Work HardâÇôQuit Right! Thomas M. Colicino |
| Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman |
| Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan |
| Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir |
| Chapter 6 Traditions |
| In the Beginning: Bantu Creation Story, African Legend |
| Quichÿ-Mayan Creation Story, Quichÿ-Mayan Legend |
| Footbinding, John King Fairbank |
| The Algonquin Cinderella, Native American Myth |
| Cinderella's Stepsisters, Toni Morrison |
| Seven Days of Mourning, Yael Yarimi |
| New (and Improved) Delhi, Gautam Bhatia |
| The Lottery, Shirley Jackson |
| Stone Throwing in India: An Annual Bash, Mark Fineman |
| The Losing Champion, Ramon Mendez, Jr |
| Chapter 7 Cultural Encounters |
| The Falsehood of Truth, Senegalese Myth |
| The Wise Rogue, Jewish Folktale (as told by Moses Gaster) |
| Fraternity, Garrett Hongo |
| Passion and the Dream, Linda Stanley |
| On Leaving New York, Emma Wunsch |
| The Man I Killed, Tim O'Brien |
| Child of the Lot, Ariela Rutkin-Becker |
| What's in a Name? Gloria Naylor |
| Konglish, Kenneth Woo |
| Chapter 8 Popular Culture |
| The Pleasures of Text, Charles McGrath |
| Can You Hear Me Now?, Sherry Turkle |
| Too Much Technology?, Katherine Larios |
| Is That Video Game Programming You? John Misak |
| The Timeless Culture, Tom Lee |
| Whatever Happened to Rock 'n Roll? James Geasor |
| Well if you can't hold the torch .then why pass it? Todd Craig |
| Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King |
| Why Does Wall-E Listen to Broadway Musicals? Martin Kutnowski |
| Rhetorical and Cultural Glossary |
| Geographic Index |
| Credits |
