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Cultural and Regional Exploration Another culture can be halfway around the world, or in your own backyard. Learn about new people and places from these series.
Canadian Cultural Diversity ~ 4 Sessions Travel through Canada with four critically-acclaimed books that make manifest Canada’s cultural diversity. Emily Carr, Klee Wyck Antonine Maillett, Pelagie-La-Charrette Roy McGregor, Canoe Lake Alistair MacLeod, Island
Julia Alvarez’s Dominican Heritage ~ 3 Sessions Did you know How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents got its start as an assignment in a graduate writing class at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English? Now world-famous and a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College, Julia Alvarez continues to write novels that bring her Dominican heritage to vivid life. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsIn the Time of the Butterflies Yo!
A Mysterious Lens on American Culture ~ 4 Sessions In these mysteries, mayhem and murder play out against a cultural/ethnic backdrop – illuminating more than simply whodunnit.Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer (Spokane Indian)Faye Kellerman, Ritual Bath (Orthodox Judaism) Barbara Neely, Blanche Cleans Up (African-American Urban) P. L. Gaus, Blood of the Prodigal (Amish) Middle Eastern Voices ~ 6 SessionsThis series focuses on fiction from four cultures that make up the Middle Eastern region – Arabic, Iranian (Persian), Jewish, and Turkish. Naguib Mahfouz, Fountain and Tomb Tayib Saleh, Season of Migration to the North Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns A. B. Yehoshua, The Lover Simin Daneshvar, Savushon Yashar Kemal, Memed, My Hawk
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