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catalog abstract ""The political circumstances following World War II exposed many people to other cultures. This reference discusses the experiences of writers active since 1945 who were shaped by cultures other than their own." "Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 writers, including Chinua Achebe, W.H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Elie Wiesel. The profiled authors either lived in another culture voluntarily or were wrenched from one culture into another. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes in the writer's works, a review of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. The reference demonstrates the value of multicultural experiences in the lives of writers around the world and fosters a greater appreciation of cultural diversity."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b13186957.
catalog contributor b13186958.
catalog contributor b13186959.
catalog created "2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
catalog description ""The political circumstances following World War II exposed many people to other cultures. This reference discusses the experiences of writers active since 1945 who were shaped by cultures other than their own." "Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 writers, including Chinua Achebe, W.H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Elie Wiesel. The profiled authors either lived in another culture voluntarily or were wrenched from one culture into another. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes in the writer's works, a review of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. The reference demonstrates the value of multicultural experiences in the lives of writers around the world and fosters a greater appreciation of cultural diversity."--Jacket.".
catalog description "Chinua Achebe -- André Aciman -- Vassilis Alexakis -- Isabel Allende -- Katerina Anhgelaki-Rooke -- W.H. Auden -- Paul Auster -- Ba Jin -- Ingeborg Bachmann -- Samuel Beckett -- Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Isaiah Berlin -- Yves Bonnefoy -- Pierre Boulle -- Paul Bowles -- Joseph Brodsky -- Pearl S. Buck -- Ivan Bunin -- Guillermao Cabrera Infante -- Albert Camus -- Elias Canetti -- Truman Capote -- Paul Celan -- Patrick Chamoiseau -- Andrée Chedid -- J.M. Coetzee -- Maryse Condé -- Jorge de Sena -- Marguerite Duras -- Lawrence Durrell -- Umberto Eco -- Gunnar Ekelöf -- Mircea Eliade -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger-- Oriana Fallaci -- Frantz Fanon -- John Fowles -- Max Frisch -- Gao Xingjian -- Édouard Glissant -- Michel Goeldlin -- Juan Goytisolo -- Jorie Graham -- Günter Grass -- Romesh Gunesekera -- Stratis Haviaras -- Bessie Head -- Georges Henein -- Eugène Ionesco -- Paula Jacques -- Nikos Kazantzakis -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Arthur Koestler -- Milan Kundera -- Hanif Kureishi -- Linde Lê -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio -- Doris Lessing -- Carlo Levi -- Primo Levi -- Artur Lundkvist -- Andrei Makine -- Claire Messud -- Marco Micone -- Czesław Miłosz -- Vilhelm Moberg -- Henry de Montherlant -- Vladimir Nabokov -- V.S. Naipaul -- Pablo Neruda -- Eugène Nicole -- Ben Okri -- Michael Ondaatje -- Iris Origo -- Octavio Paz -- Pepetela -- Elisabeth Plessen -- Jean Rhys -- Ri Kaisei -- Salman Rushdie -- Carl Sagan -- Said -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Georges Schehadé -- W.G. Sebald -- Luis Sepúveda -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn -- Muriel Spark -- Suga Atsuko -- Antonio Tabucchi -- Tawada Yōko -- Tzvetan Todorov -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Leon (Marcus) Uris -- Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich -- Derek Walcott -- Wang Meng -- Elie Wiesel -- Yi Munyŏl -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Alexander Zinoviev.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-561) and index.".
catalog extent "xv, 610 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0313306885 (alk. paper)".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "2004.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,".
catalog subject "809/.045 B 21".
catalog subject "Authors 20th century Biography.".
catalog subject "Literature, Modern 20th century Bio-bibliography.".
catalog subject "Multiculturalism in literature.".
catalog subject "PN452 .M88 2004".
catalog tableOfContents "Chinua Achebe -- André Aciman -- Vassilis Alexakis -- Isabel Allende -- Katerina Anhgelaki-Rooke -- W.H. Auden -- Paul Auster -- Ba Jin -- Ingeborg Bachmann -- Samuel Beckett -- Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Isaiah Berlin -- Yves Bonnefoy -- Pierre Boulle -- Paul Bowles -- Joseph Brodsky -- Pearl S. Buck -- Ivan Bunin -- Guillermao Cabrera Infante -- Albert Camus -- Elias Canetti -- Truman Capote -- Paul Celan -- Patrick Chamoiseau -- Andrée Chedid -- J.M. Coetzee -- Maryse Condé -- Jorge de Sena -- Marguerite Duras -- Lawrence Durrell -- Umberto Eco -- Gunnar Ekelöf -- Mircea Eliade -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger-- Oriana Fallaci -- Frantz Fanon -- John Fowles -- Max Frisch -- Gao Xingjian -- Édouard Glissant -- Michel Goeldlin -- Juan Goytisolo -- Jorie Graham -- Günter Grass -- Romesh Gunesekera -- Stratis Haviaras -- Bessie Head -- Georges Henein -- Eugène Ionesco -- Paula Jacques -- Nikos Kazantzakis -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Arthur Koestler -- Milan Kundera -- Hanif Kureishi -- Linde Lê -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio -- Doris Lessing -- Carlo Levi -- Primo Levi -- Artur Lundkvist -- Andrei Makine -- Claire Messud -- Marco Micone -- Czesław Miłosz -- Vilhelm Moberg -- Henry de Montherlant -- Vladimir Nabokov -- V.S. Naipaul -- Pablo Neruda -- Eugène Nicole -- Ben Okri -- Michael Ondaatje -- Iris Origo -- Octavio Paz -- Pepetela -- Elisabeth Plessen -- Jean Rhys -- Ri Kaisei -- Salman Rushdie -- Carl Sagan -- Said -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Georges Schehadé -- W.G. Sebald -- Luis Sepúveda -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn -- Muriel Spark -- Suga Atsuko -- Antonio Tabucchi -- Tawada Yōko -- Tzvetan Todorov -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Leon (Marcus) Uris -- Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich -- Derek Walcott -- Wang Meng -- Elie Wiesel -- Yi Munyŏl -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Alexander Zinoviev.".
catalog title "Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Albe Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp.".
catalog type "Biography. fast".
catalog type "text".