From the outer world

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From the outer world

edited by Oscar Handlin and Lilian Handlin

Harvard University Press, 1997

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-491)

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Volume

ISBN 9780674326392

Description

New "voyagers" in the 20th century, from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America, record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans do not differ dramatically from those of their predecessors, but clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of the author. These literary products have earned far less attention than those of the English, French, Germans, and Russians, and this volume aims to redress the balance. The earliest of the travel accounts is from Rabindranath Tagore in 1924, and the most recent is from V.S. Naipaul in 1989. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish. These writers have noted the repercussions of unsettled lives, perceived class differences, contention regarding the position of women, and many other issues of concern.

Table of Contents

  • A monotony of multitudes (1924), Rabindranath Tagore
  • Looking for work (1920s), J.B. Murray
  • Among migrants (1930s), Carlos Bulosan
  • Education as a way up (1934), Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Cultural strains (1934), No-Yong Park
  • World without ghosts (1943), Fei Xiaoting
  • Being poor in America (1940s), Chiang Yee
  • The American character (1949), Abbas Masudi
  • Fundamentalism (1949), Sayyid Qutb
  • Power and patriotism (1951), Hidesaburo Kurushima
  • Encounters with racism (1957), Kwamw Nkrumah
  • Glimpses of urban life (1962), Manuel Zapata Olivella
  • Vedanta Plaza (1964), R.K. Narayan
  • Child-rearing and national character (1968), Sotokichi Katsuizumi
  • Measures of affluence (1963), Hanoch Bartov
  • Harlem (1965), Nat Nakasa
  • Food in America (1970), Liang Shiqiu
  • Hollywood yoga (1977), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
  • In the backwoods (1977), Choong Soon Kim
  • Living habits (1978), Wang Ruoshui
  • Youth (1979), Xiao Qian
  • New societies (1979), Fei Xiaotong
  • Spacious yet confining (1982), Liu Binyan
  • A massive society (1984), Liu Zongren
  • Outcasts of the western world (1985), Octavio Paz
  • Life by the clock (1989), Abdul Hamid
  • The contradictions of modernity (1990), Aftab Iqbal
  • Undisciplined youth (1993), Jide Nzelibe
  • Survivals (1989) V.S. Naipaul.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780674326408

Description

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans, they find, clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of their authors. These literary products have earned far less attention than those of the English, French, Germans, and Russians, and this volume proposes to redress the balance. The earliest of the thirty-one travel accounts was written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1924, and the most recent by V. S. Naipaul in 1989. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish. Some authors are well known, but the less famous are equally insightful. Some insights are weighty, many are amusing. Octavio Paz, a sympathetic observer who admired his country's neighbor, was uneasy that the most powerful country in the world sustained "a global ideology...as outdated as the doctrine of free enterprise, the steam boat, and other relics of the nineteenth century." The Israeli journalist Hanoch Bartov observed that "God conceived the car first, with man an afterthought, created for the car's use (a Southern California legend)." In coming to a truer understanding of the United States, these writers noted the frightening repercussions of unsettled lives, perceived class differentiation, contentions regarding the status of women, the sense of national unity amid diversity, and countless other issues of concern to those who try to find meaning in the contemporary world.

Table of Contents

  • A monotony of multitudes (1924), Rabindranath Tagore
  • Looking for work (1920s), J.B. Murray
  • Among migrants (1930s), Carlos Bulosan
  • Education as a way up (1934), Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Cultural strains (1934), No-Yong Park
  • World without ghosts (1943), Fei Xiaoting
  • Being poor in America (1940s), Chiang Yee
  • The American character (1949), Abbas Masudi
  • Fundamentalism (1949), Sayyid Qutb
  • Power and patriotism (1951), Hidesaburo Kurushima
  • Encounters with racism (1957), Kwamw Nkrumah
  • Glimpses of urban life (1962), Manuel Zapata Olivella
  • Vedanta Plaza (1964), R.K. Narayan
  • Child-rearing and national character (1968), Sotokichi Katsuizumi
  • Measures of affluence (1963), Hanoch Bartov
  • Harlem (1965), Nat Nakasa
  • Food in America (1970), Liang Shiqiu
  • Hollywood yoga (1977), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
  • In the backwoods (1977), Choong Soon Kim
  • Living habits (1978), Wang Ruoshui
  • Youth (1979), Xiao Qian
  • New societies (1979), Fei Xiaotong
  • Spacious yet confining (1982), Liu Binyan
  • A massive society (1984), Liu Zongren
  • Outcasts of the western world (1985), Octavio Paz
  • Life by the clock (1989), Abdul Hamid
  • The contradictions of modernity (1990), Aftab Iqbal
  • Undisciplined youth (1993), Jide Nzelibe
  • Survivals (1989) V.S. Naipaul.

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