Multitude: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers

By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Book Overview

This text brings together a diverse spectrum of voices and issues that reflect our sociaety. The anthology is divided into 10 broad themes and provides a variety of perspectives on the ways people connect across boundaries of ethnicity, class, gender, age and geography. Providing extensive teaching appratus, this text includes: prereading questions geared to differnet learning styles; biographical headnotes to aid students' understanding of the writer's background; and a variety of analysis questions and writing assignments that make strong reading/writing connections and challenges students to think critically.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007017086X
• ISBN13: 9780070170865
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 591 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Multicultural Anthology

prose and poetry from authors of many traditions. Each comes complete with questions for critical reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. Good training for writers of all kinds.