A Different Mirror: The Position of Immigrant Writers in British Society.

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In teaching international students in Britain and students in United States in multicultural and multiclass classrooms, a common resistance was found to consideration of how culture and society shape identity. Even international students from collectivist cultures, who see their identities as inextricable from their communities in their countries of origin, resist idea that new society in which they find themselves is busy defining them, regardless of their actions or responses. One approach to this problem is to encourage students to write in a way that engages societal expectations and identities of culture surrounding them. While central mythology of United States is that of an immigrant-receiving nation, Britain is considered a post-colonizing nation fundamentally hostile to idea of immigration. Paradoxically, much of Britain's popular writing of last 15 years has come from novelists who are immigrants, novelists such as Caryl Phillips, Hanif Kureishi, Sunetra Gupta, and Jan Lo Shi

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