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Writing the World: On Globalization Essays by David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor (Editors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
This collection of essays, memoirs, poems, stories, and artwork looks at globalization as a worldwide exchange of art and ideas. Writing the World focuses on the cultural realities of globalism -- the opportunities it provides to learn from other cultures. This knowledge, argue David Rothenberg and Wandee Pryor in their introduction, can be power: "When all of us learn enough about our differences to respect the diversity that exists, we will be unable to pretend we are the same. We will never accept the old innocence and ignorance bred by oppression and exploitation." For the contributors to Writing the World, to dream of the global village is to see the world not as a vast market but as a place of shared values and linked wonder."It is time to listen to the many literate voices the world speaks," say Rothenberg and Pryor. The voices of Writing the World range from Arundhati Roy on the "colonization of knowledge" in her essay "The Ladies Have Feelings, So... Shall We Leave It to t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor (Editors)
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282100923
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Short Stories, Literary Collections