Intercultural Research Series Foreword
Volume Preface
Cultural Patterns of Communication-Values-Identity Struggles
A New Stage of Comparative Literature: An Introduction to
the New SISU Ph.D. Program - Comparative Literature
and Intercultural Studies
Section One
Comparative Analyses of Literary Value Constructions
1.Value and Canonicity:The Making of World Literature
2.Cultures of Honor,Cultures of Face: Literary Representations
of Gendered Values
3.Writing Maafa:Narratives of Violence in the Works of
Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Audre Lorde, and Fred D'Aguiar
4.Comparative Sexual Ethics: William Faulkner and Mo Yan
5.Chinese Literature “Going Abroad”:The Case of Big
Breasts and Wide Hips
6.Women and National Development:A Comparative Study
of Lu Xun and Henry Lawson
7. Interculturality and Intertextuality: Robert Van Gulik's
Judge Dee Novels
Section Two
Perspectives on Migration
8.The Value of Honor in the Context of Immigration: Elif
Shafak's Honour
9.Cross-Cultural Values in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine
10. Frozen in American Space:(Non)Belonging in Ike
Oguine's A Squatter's Tale
11. Writing and Translating Trauma: Amy Tan's The
Bonesetter's Daughter
12.A Home in Ukiyo
13.Shakespeare's Windsor,the Babbling Barbarian,and the
Strangeness of Form
About the Authors
About the Series
