Research Catalog

Title

On being foreign : culture shock in short fiction : an international anthology / Tom J. Lewis, Robert E. Jungman, editors.

Publication

Yarmouth, Me. : Intercultural Press, c1986.

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Additional Authors

• Lewis, Tom J.
• Jungman, Robert E.

Description

xxv, 293 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A selection of short stories by such authors as Albert Camus, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Hermann Hesse, Rudyard Kipling and Katherine Mansfield. They lead the reader through the stages of cross-cultural adjustment and provide insights into the psyche of the foreigner. The work is designed as a text in advanced English as a second language, in world literature courses and for intercultural studies.

Subject

• Johannes Stobaeus ca. 5. Jh
• Geschichte 1920-1980
• Short stories
• Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction
• Assimilation (Sociology) > Fiction
• Culture shock > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Short stories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Longing for America / David Rubin -- Alienation / Julio Ramón Ribeyro -- America / Arthur Schnitzler -- You have left your lotus pods on the bus / Paul Bowles -- Odd tippling / Kurt Kusenberg -- The little governess / Katherine Mansfield -- Saree of the gods / G.S. Sharat Chandra -- The growing stone / Albert Camus -- Everything is nice / Jane Bowles -- Robert Aghion / Hermann Hesse -- Pastor Dowe at Tacaté / Paul Bowles -- The blue hotel / Stephen Crane -- An outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad -- The overlap / John Bovey -- The door in the wall / Oliver La Farge -- East and West / Rudyard Kipling -- Story of the warrior and the captive / Jorge Luis Borges -- Yard sale / Paul Theroux -- Home sickness / George Moore -- The captive / Jorge Luis Borges.

ISBN

0933662629

LCCN

^^^86081109^

OCLC

15119306

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library