Honolulu, HI : East-West Center, East-West Culture Learning Institute
Abstract
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/These papers deal with the relations between culture and literature, and with cultural resonances between East and West. Moreover, almost all of the contributions show something of the complicated processes of social change which were set in motion during the colonial period and which are still reflected in the literature of many modern independent nations. The critics here, and the writers they discuss, are particular examples of the meeting of Occidental and Oriental traditions. The papers were written in 1981 by participants associated with the Contact Literature Project of the Culture Learning Institute at the East-West Center, Honolulu. It is hoped that these essays will serve to give the reader an idea not only of the theoretical questions relating to this approach to literary studies, but also a fair sample of the possibilities for creative investigation in this field. This collection of occasional papers, therefore, makes no claim to offer the last word on the various topics treated. In many ways, the reader should regard it as 'work-in-progress'.The sense of self: changes in the role of Korean women as reflected in modern Korean drama / Jung-Soon Shim -- Culture learning through literature: the uses of fakes / Paul Sharrad -- Iwan Simatupang and cross-cultural influences / Pamela McCall -- The modernization of a poetic tradition: some problems and perspectives / Wimal Dissanayake -- Arun Joshi's "The Foreigner": the protagonist in search of meaning / Tina Shettigara -- Cold cultural curry: Anthony Burgess's "Malayan Trilogy" / Michael Duffett -- Socio-cultural aspects of two South Indian novels: R.K. Narayan's "The Painter of Signs" and Kannadhasan's "Civappukkal Mukkutti" / Sathya Jagadeswari -- The more we read: contact literature and the reader / Ronald Blaber -- For better or for worse: U.S. films on the international scene / Ruth Vasey -- America in Vietnam: some literary responses / Andrew McCullough
