Contemporary Multicultural Texts is an attempt to engage with issues concerning multiculturalism and multicultural texts in the context of teaching Contemporary American Literature.
Multiculturalism is a fraught issue in the current socio-political ethos in the United States.
It is a fact, of course, that multicultural texts had already been written in the US, but their proliferation at the present time, and their inclusion in school and university syllabi testify to a serious and larger cultural objective to give expression to cultural diversity. This makes her experiences and her theoretical positions illuminative of many of the concerns of people for whom multiculturalism is an immediate issue. The interview was designed in order to clarify for ourselves the vantage points from which we could approach teaching contemporary multicultural texts . The questions that we asked Shirley Lim appear below. To listen to the answers, you will need to download Real Audio drivers.