The Writing of Modernity by Cross-cultural Writers
by Zhou Guijun
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This book is a project funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education (Project Approval Number: 09YJA752009). Modernity is the cultural form of modern society and the essential state of modern society. It is reflected in social thought, political economy, science and technology, culture and other aspects. Modernity has become a hot issue that people in today's world pay close attention to. Cross-cultural writers refer to writers with two or more cultural backgrounds. They have more opportunities to experience the characteristics of modern cultural context, which determines the profundity and modern consciousness of their works. They are both carriers and disseminators of multiculturalism. There are so many cross-cultural novel texts. In order to make the research representative, this book focuses on five novelists with cross-cultural backgrounds who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature: American writer Pearl Buck (1892-1973) (Chinese cultural background), Australian writer Patrick White (Patrick Victor Martindale) White, 1912-1990) (British background, Middle Eastern background), British writer Doris Lessing (1919-) (African background), British-Indian writer V. S. Naipaul (1932-) (Indian background), South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee (1940-) (British, American, Australian background). The backgrounds of these five writers cover the five continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States, and Oceania, spanning a century.
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