Table Of ContentASIAN AND WESTERN WRITERS IN DIALOGUE
Also edited by G'9' Amirthanqyagam
WRITERS IN EAST- WEST ENCOUNTER
New Cultural Bearings
ASIAN AND WESTERN
WRITERS
IN DIALOGUE
New Cultural Identities
Edited by
Guy Amirthanayagam
M
©Guy Amirthanayagam 1982
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors Vll
Preface and Acknowledgements X
PART I LITERARY AND CULTURAL ROLES
I Literature and Cultural Knowledge
GUY AMIRTHANAYAGAM 3
2 Notes Towards a Definition of International Culture
MALCOLM BRADBURY I3
3 Realisms, Occidental Style
KENNETH BURKE 26
4 The Question of Exile
LEON EDEL 48
5 Cultura:I Mis-readings by American Reviewers
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 55
6 The Search for Identity: A Kannada Writer's
Viewpoint
U. R. ANANTHA MURTHY 66
7 Literature in the Global Village: An Inquiry into
Problems of Response
C. D. NARASIMHAIAH 79
PART II LITERARY AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
8 New Epics of Cultural Convergence
IKUKO ATSUMI IOI
9 The Portable Pagoda: Asia and America in the Work
of Gary Snyder
REUEL DENNEY I I 5
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VI Contents
IO Two Readers and Their Texts
NISSIM EZEKIEL
I37
II Western Ideology and Eastern Forms ofFiction: The
Case of Mulk Raj Anand
S.C. HARREX I42
I2 Culture as History: The Filipino Soul
NICK JOAQUIN
159
I3 The Quest for Self in Modern Korean Poetry
PETER HACKSOO LEE I9I
14 Tradition Overturned: A Modern Literature in
Sri Lanka
EDIRIWIRA R. SARACHCHANDRA
209
Index 22I
Notes on the Contributors
GuY AMIRTHANA YA GAM, poet and essayist, heads the research
project in literature and culture at the East-West Center,
Honolulu, Hawaii. He has published a collection entitled Poems,
several critical essays, and has edited the recently published Writers
in East-West Encounter: New Cultural Bearings. He has also co-edited,
with S.C. Harrex, Onry Connect: Literary Perspectives East and West.
MALCOLM BRADBURY, novelist and critic, is Professor of American
Studies at the University ofE ast Anglia, England. Among his novels
are Eating People is Wrong and The History Man. His critical works
include The Social Context of Modern Literature and Possibilities: Essays
on the State of the Novel.
KENNETH BuRKE, writer and philosopher, is also one of the most
influential critics in the United States. Among his publications are
Collected Poems 1915-1¢7, The Complete White Oxen: Collected Short
Fiction, A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives, Language as
Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method, The Philosophy of
Literary Form and The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology.
LEON EDEL is a critic and well-known scholar, biographer of Henry
James and editor of the Edmund Wilson papers. Other publications
include Modern Psychological Novel, Henry James: A Collection of Critical
Essays, James Joyce: The Last Journey, Henry David Thoreau and
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions.
MAXINE HoNG KINGSTON is visiting Professor of English at the
University ofHawaii. Her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memories
of a Girlhood among Ghosts (I976), won her the National Critics'
Circle Book Award in I977· She has also published China Men
(I98I).
U. R. ANANTHA MuRTHY, who writes in the Kannada language, is
one oflndia's leading contemporary novelists. He teaches English
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Notes on the Contributors
Vlll
at the University of Mysore, India, and was Secretary of the
Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies.
His novel Samskara is available in English translation.
C. D. NARASIMHAIAH, Professor of English, University of Mysore,
edits The Literary Criterion, and has published studies ofF. R. Leav is,
and the novelist Raja Rao. He was Chairman of the Association for
Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies.
IKUKO ATSUMI, poet and scholar ofA merican and English literature,
is Associate Professor of English Literature at Aoyama Gakuin
University, Tokyo. She has published two anthologies, Soaring and
The Ninth Electron.
REVEL DENNEY, Emeritus Professor of American Studies, Univer
sity ofHawaii, is co-author of The Lonely Crowd with David Riesman
and Nathan Glazer. Among his other publications are The
Astonished Muse and In Praise rif Adam, a prize-winning collection of
poems.
N1ss1M EzEKIEL is a leading English-language poet in India. His
works include A Time to Change, Sixry Poems, The Third, The
Unfinished Man, The Exact Name, Three Plays, Snakeskin and Other
Poems, translations from the Marathi of Indira Sant, and Hymns in
Darkness.
S.C. HARREx, critic and poet, is Director of the Centre for Research
in the New Literatures in English at Flinders University of South
Australia. Publications include The Fire and the Offering: The English
Language Novel rif India 1935-1970 and Companions rif Pilgrimage:
Collected Essays.
NicK jOAQUIN, leading Filipino novelist and dramatist, is recipient
of the National Artist Award. His publications include the novels
Tropical Gothic and The Woman who Had two Navels, Stories and Poems
and the drama The Portrait rif an Artist as a Young Filipino.
PETER HAcKsoo LEE, linguist and specialist in Korean literature, is
Professor of East Asian Literature at the University of Hawaii. He
has won awards for his work in Korean and Japanese literature,
which include Studies in Saenaennorae: Old Korean Poetry and Flowers rif
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Fire: Twentieth-Century Korean Stories. Other titles include Celebration
of Continuity and Songs of Flying Dragons.
E. R. SARACHCHANDRA is Sri Lanka's best-known playwright.
Among his well-known plays are Maname and Sinhabahu. He has
also published several novels, including Curfew and a Full Moon,
which is available in English.
