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Contemporary Fiction

Intercultural communication



Said, Edward W. Imperialism and Culture.New York: Vintage Book, p. !!"

No one today i purely one t#ing. $a%el like

Indian, or woman, or &ulim, or 'merican

are not more t#an tarting(point, w#ic# i)

)ollowed into actual e*perience )or only a

moment are +uickly le)t %e#ind.



Imperialim conolidated t#e mi*ture o)

culture and identitie on a glo%al cale.

But it wort and mot parado*ical gi)t wa

to allow people to %eliee t#at t#ey were

only, mainly, e*cluiely, w#ite, or Black,

or Wetern, or -riental. Yet ut a #uman

%eing make t#eir own #itory, t#ey alomake t#eir culture and et#nic identitie.



No one can deny t#e periting continuitie

o) long tradition, utained #a%itation,

national language, and cultural

geograp#ie, %ut t#ere eem to %e no

reaon e*cept )ear and preudice to keep

initing on t#eir eparation and

ditinctiene, a i) t#at wa all #umanli)e wa a%out.



Surial in )act i a%out t#e connection

%etween t#ing, in Eliot/ p#rae, reality

cannot %e depried o) t#e 0ot#er ec#oe

1t#at2 in#a%it t#e garden.3



It i more rewarding 4 and more di))icult 4 to t#ink

concretely and ympat#etically, contrapuntally,

a%out ot#er t#an only a%out 0u.3 But t#i alo

mean not trying to rule ot#er, not trying toclai)y t#em or put t#em in #ierarc#ie, a%oe

all, not contantly reiterating #ow 0our3 culture or

country i num%er one 5or not num%er one, )or

t#at matter6. For t#e intellectual t#ere i +uiteenoug# o) alue to do wit#out that .



Virginia Wool), Three Guineas in A Room of One’s

Own/ Three Guineas, 7enguin Book, 899!

It i now t#at t#e )irt di))iculty o) communication %etween

u appear. $et u rapidly indicate t#e reaon. We %ot#

come o) w#at, in t#i #y%rid age w#en, t#oug# %irt# i

mi*ed, clae till remain )i*ed, it i conenient to call

t#e educated cla. But t#oe t#ree dot mark aprecipice, a gul) o deeply cut %etween u t#at )or t#ree

year and more I #ae %een itting on my ide o) it

wondering w#et#er it i any ue to try to peak acro it.

12 'nd t#e reult i t#at t#oug# we look at t#e amet#ing, we ee t#em di))erently. 588;(8896



W#at t#en 12 i t#i <patriotim/= $et t#e $ord C#ie) >utice o)England interpret it )or u:

0Engli#men are proud o) England. For t#oe w#o #ae %eentrained in Engli# c#ool and unieritie, and w#o #ae done t#ework o) t#eir lie in England, t#ere are )ew loe tronger t#an t#e

loe we #ae )or our country. W#en we conider ot#er nation,w#en we udge t#e merit o) t#e policy o) t#i country or o) t#at, it it#e tandard o) our own country t#at we apply $i%erty #a made#er a%ode in England. England i t#e #ome o) democraticintitution It i in our midt t#ere are many enemie o) li%erty 4ome o) t#em, per#ap, in rat#er une*pected +uarter. But we aretanding )irm. It #a %een aid t#at an Engli#man/ ?ome i #i

Catle. @#e #ome o) $i%erty i in England. 'nd it i a catle indeed 4a catle t#at will %e de)ended to t#e lat Ye, we are greatly%leed, we Engli#men.3



0I am certain I oice t#e opinion o) t#ouand o) young

men w#en I ay t#at i) men were doing t#e work t#at

t#ouand o) women are now doing t#e men would %e

a%le to keep t#oe women in decent #ome. ?ome are

t#e real place o) t#e women w#o are now compellingmen to %e idle. It i time t#e Aoernment inited upon

employer giing work to more men, t#u ena%ling t#em

to marry t#e women t#ey cannot now approac#.3 5Daily

Telegraph, >anuary nd, 89!"6



0@#ere are two world in t#e li)e o) t#e

nation, t#e world o) men and t#e world o)

women. Nature #a done well to entrut

t#e man wit# t#e care o) #i )amily and t#e

nation. @#e woman/ world i #er )amily,

#er #u%and, #er c#ildren, and #er #ome.3



5'dol) ?itler, unday Times, 8! Septem%er 89!"6.

-ne i written in Engli#, t#e ot#er in

Aerman. But w#ere i t#e di))erence= 're

t#ey not %ot# t#e oice o) ictator,

w#et#er t#ey peak Engli# or Aerman,

and are we not all agreed t#at t#e dictator

w#en we meet #im a%road i a ery

dangerou a well a a ery ugly animal=



0For,3 t#e outider will ay, 0in )act, a a woman,

I #ae no country. ' a woman I want no

country. ' a woman my country i t#e w#ole

world.31I2n our age o) innumera%le la%el, o) multi(

coloured la%el, we #ae %ecome upiciou o)

la%elD t#ey kill and contrict.

1@2#e capacity o) t#e #uman pirit to oer)low

%oundarie and make unity out o) multiplicity.



u#die, Salman. 0Step 'cro @#i $ine.

@#e @anner $ecture on ?uman Value,

Yale, .3 tep A!ross This "ine.

Colle!ted #on$%i!tion &''($())(. $ondon:

Vintage, . GH(G.



@#e )rontier i an eluie line, ii%le and

inii%le, p#yical and metap#orical,

amoral and moral. 12 ?e 1'rt#ur2 will )ig#t

#i #are o) )rontier war, and #e will alo

)ind t#at t#ere are )rontier w#ic#, %eing

inii%le, are more dangerou to cro

t#an t#e p#yical kind.5G886



-ur own %irt# mirror t#e )irt croing o)

t#e )rontier %etween t#e element. ' we

emerge )rom amniotic )luid, )rom t#e li+uid

uniere o) t#e wom%, we, too, dicoer

t#at we can %reat#eD we, too, leae %e#ind

a kind o) waterworld to %ecome denien

o) eart# and air.5G;6



In all +uet t#e oyager i con)ronted %yterri)ying guardian o) territory, an ogre #ere, adragon t#ere. So )ar and no )urt#er, t#e guardiancommand. But t#e oyager mut re)ue t#e

ot#er/ de)inition o) t#e %oundary, muttrangre againt t#e limit o) w#at )earprecri%e. ?e tep acro t#at line. @#e de)eato) t#e ogre i an opening in t#e el), an increaein w#at it i poi%le )or t#e oyager to %e. 125G96 @#e ourney create u. We %ecome t#e)rontier we cro. 12 @#e Arail i a c#imera.@#e +uet )or t#e Arail i t#e Arail. 5G86



@#e )rontier i a wake(up call. 't t#e)rontier we can/t aoid t#e trut#D t#ecom)orting layer o) t#e +uotidian, w#ic#

inulate u againt t#e world/ #ar#errealitie, are tripped away, and, wide(eyed in t#e #ar# )luorecent lig#t o) t#e)rontier/ windowle #all, we ee t#inga t#ey are. @#e )rontier i t#e p#yicalproo) o) t#e #uman race/ diided el) 12.5G86



1@2#e migrant, t#e man wit#out )rontier, it#e arc#etypal )igure o) our age. 12 ' amigrant myel), I #ae alway tried to

tre t#e creatie apect o) uc# culturalcommingling. @#e migrant, eered )rom#i root, o)ten tranplanted into a newlanguage, alway o%liged to learn t#e way

o) a new community, i )orced to )ace t#egreat +uetion o) c#ange and adaptationD



%ut many migrant, )aced wit# t#e #eer

e*itential di))iculty o) making uc#

c#ange, and alo, o)ten, wit# t#e #eer

alienne and de)enie #otility o) t#epeople amongt w#om t#ey )ind

t#emele, retreat )rom uc# +uetion

%e#ind t#e wall o) t#e old culture t#ey#ae %roug#t along and le)t %e#ind.



?ere i t#e wort(cae cenario o) t#e

)rontier o) t#e )uture: t#e Iron Curtain wa

deigned to keep people in. Now we w#o

lie in t#e wealt#iet and mot deira%lecorner o) t#e world are %uilding wall to

keep people out. 5G8H6



@#e croing o) %order, o) language,geograp#y and cultureD t#e e*amination o)t#e permea%le )rontier %etween t#e uniereo) t#ing and deed and t#e uniere o)imaginationD t#e lowering o) t#e intolera%le)rontier created %y t#e world/ many di))erentkind o) t#oug#t policemen: t#ee matter#ae %een at t#e #eart o) t#e literary proect

t#at wa gien to me %y t#e circumtance o)my li)e, rat#er t#an c#oen %y me )orintellectual or <artitic/ reaon. 5G!G6



Born into one language, Jrdu, I/e made

my li)e and work in anot#er. 'nyone w#o

#a croed a language )rontier will readily

undertand t#at uc# a ourney inole a)orm o) #ape(#i)ting or el)(tranlation.

@#e c#ange o) language c#ange u. 'll

language permit lig#tly arying )orm o)t#oug#t, imagination and play. 12 5G!G6



@#e pro%lem o) limit i made awkward )orartit and writer, including myel), %y ourown ad#erence to, and initence upon, a

no(limit poition in our own work. @#e)rontierlene o) art #a %een andremain our #eady ideology. @#e concepto) trangreie art i o widely accepted

12 a to contitute, in t#e eye o)coneratie critic, a new ort#odo*y.5GG6



@#e )reedom o) art and t#e intellect are

cloely related to t#e general )reedom o)

ociety a a w#ole. 5GG6

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