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eng exam 2
qweasd
32
English
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2011

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100 years of solitude
Definition
Marquez/Spanish
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Kahlil Gibran
Definition
Spirits Rebllious, Broken Wings, The Madman, The Prophet/Arabic & English
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story of the stone/dream of the red chamber
Definition
Cao Xueqin/Chinese
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street
Definition
Naguib Mahfouz, Arabic
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Midnight Children
Definition
Rushdie, English
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Notebook of a return to my native land
Definition
Aime Cesaire/French
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Childe Harold's Pilgramage
Definition
Lord Byron/English
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War and Peace
Definition
Leo Tolstoy/Russian
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Najaf Kuli
Definition
Journal of a Residence in England/Persia
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Journal of a Residence in England: character and location
Definition
Kuli/England
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Chiang Yee
Definition
The Silent Traveller in London/English/England
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On The General Conditions of Europe
Definition
Effendi/Ottoman Empire/Ottoman Turkish
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Effendi Characters
Definition
Effendi/Europe
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Okakura
Definition
The Cup of Humanity/Japan/English
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Chekov and Zulu
Definition
Rushdie/India & Britain/English
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Naipul
Definition
Prologue to an Autobiography/in England about Trinidad/English
Term
Hattori
Definition
The Western Peep Show/Japan/Japanese
Term
Mishima
Definition
Patriotism/Japan/Japanese
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Machado de Assis
Definition
The Psychiatrist/Brazil/Portuguese
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Lermentov
Definition
Bela/Russia & Caucus/Russian
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Vargas Llosa
Definition
The Storyteller/Peru & Spain/Spanish
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Sarmiento
Definition
Life of Juan Facundo Quiroga: Civilization and Barbarism/Argentina/Spanish
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Silko
Definition
Yellow Woman/US,Laguna,Pueblo/English
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Diaspora
Definition
dispersal
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Acculturation
Definition
broad scale, adopting certain practices becoming more westernized
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Assimilation
Definition
try to fit into the larger group
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Expatriate
Definition
voluntarily living in a different place
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Metropole
Definition
colonial center for colony
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Ultranationalism
Definition
zealous nationalism that expresses extremist support for one's nationalist ideals
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Byronic Hero
Definition
Too smart for where he is, aloof, "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"
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Fervor de Buenos Aires; Ficciones; El Aleph
Definition
Borges/Spanish/Argentina
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Frontier Thesis
Definition
The frontier is where american society develops. As you tame the wilderness; that's where america comes up
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