Overview

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 a 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 both in the readings and selected visuals that appear at the end of each chapter. 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.

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Author:   Sheena Gillespie ,  Robert Becker
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780205780372

ISBN 10:   0205780377
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   17 June 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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, José Torres Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn The Fender-Bender, Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez 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 Hard–Quit Right!  Thomas M. Colicino Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir  

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