Transcultural Literature And Contemporary World Literature

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

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Diamond depicts the theme development and interactions of cultures best in chapter 12 (Blueprints and Borrowed Letters). In this chapter, he talks about systems of writings and how they have changed as well as spread between cultures. Acknowledging the complexity of devising a

Anime is, simply put, animation that's made in Japan. I'll give you some examples of anime that you might know. Speed Racer, Hello Kitty, Pokemon, RoboTech, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, and a lot of the cartoons you find on Cartoon Network qualify as well, particularly Adult Swim.

Little 1 Auzurae Little Professor Strange English 103 17 September 2014 Knowledge is Freedom People pay a lot of attention to their community and surroundings, especially as young children. They pick up habits and daily rituals from their family and friends. People talk like their loved ones using the same slang in relation to their area. Authors place of origin tend to influence their work.

Book I as he demonstrates a way of detecting a man’s true conviction to his moral and

Taking into account these various factors, the novel as a genre, simultaneously grew and developed in what has become the primary genre of contemporary books. These social, economic and political changes, treated separately were not enough to induce, the development of the novel. Rather it was the presence of circumstances and factors together that inundated the transition of the novel, illuminating its purpose as a social tool as well as a recreational

Within the past century there have been many great authors that have written books that have completely changed the literature world. Some started completely new writing ideas that would later become more popular, while others would rekindle an old flame for a writing genre long since passed. No matter how these great authors managed to change the writing world no one can argue that their contributions have shaped the literature world as we know of it now. From Lewis Carrol to C.S. Lewis to H.G. Wells there have been many such authors who have had the courage to take this world by storm by creating their own worlds. However, one such author stands out from the rest in terms of being able to create a completely new and unique world. This new

The purpose of this paper is to analyze to main questions. The first part of the paper will define transnational feminism and identify key factors within a transnational perspective. Another part will be discussing some transnational feminist critiques of mainstream “white/Western” feminism and will also give ideas that a transnational feminist would suggest in order to make positive changes for women. The second part of the paper will choose two concepts to define, as well as discuss how they relate to one another from a transnational perspective. In addition, the relation of how they related to gender or affect the political, social, and/or economic status of women in the world will be analyzed.

Literature has different colours and shades. It is the reflection of day- today incidents in human life. It is the accurate picture of social lifestyle. The incidents and events of daily life are mirrored in it. In modern life, violence and terror became the part and parcel of our daily life. The world is becoming the victim of terrorist activities. There is dramatic fall and devaluation of moral values in the modern society. Commercialism and materialism are eating into the moral fiber of our society like a cancerous

Anime is a type of cartoon but rather, it is complex, mature, broader, and even the animation drawing is on a higher level than that of a mere cartoon. Anime, which originated in Japan, is drawn by a “Mangaka” (artist) into manga (comic) drafts. These drafts are then rearranged, colored and synchronized by a hundred of staff. After the sequencing, a “Seiyuu” (Voice Actor) will give life to the character. One second of movement needs twenty-five to thirty-five drafts of drawing. Since it originated in Japan, most of the Animes shows the culture and hidden beauty of Japan, its technological advancement, friendship, love and student’s life, the Japanese way.

Literature is an imitation of societal values and is thus a reflection of the human experience of a time period. Written works emphasize the elements of culture, by means of characters, particular events, setting and theme, specific to the time period in which it was composed. Furthermore, literature mirrors the troubles or hardships of society and projects the core values that define said society. Thus, as culture has changed over time, literature has remained a critical facet in representing time periods of the past. Essentially, the culture of a time period is manifested through writing in the projection of society’s values, symbolism of the center of community and literature itself.

Anime is the Japanese take on the word "animation". It represents the Japanese style of animating cartoons. However, not all anime is for children. Majority imported to America is aimed at an adult audience- containing deep storylines, graphic violence, gore, as well as nudity and adult situations. This cinematic genre is a fast growing trend in the west and can now possibly be considered the most popular phenomenon among

In his article "Transculturality – the puzzling Form of cultures today", Welsch aims to construct a new understanding of the concept of culture in order to reflect the “complexity of modern culture”. His main argument is that all the old uses of culture even the ones that tried to reflect the new changing societies, were sin to the idea of culture as by using the same traditional concept of culture as a homogenous, ethnic based and isolated. Welsch suggest a new understanding of culture by using the term “transculturality” that uses a new understanding of cultures and societies as intermixing.

In modernism it started with the presenting ambiguity of the texts. In post-modernism intertextuality developed into two dimensions: horizontal (writer-reader relation) and vertical (one text to another text relation). Post-modernism doesn’t hide the fact the texts are constructed, and sees the values of the text in text’s place in the network of texts. Borges, the key figure in Spanish-speaking modern literature, writes that ‘The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms’. [15] This becomes one of the core statements of post-modernism: ‘everything has been already written’.