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What is multicultural literature?
Multicultural literature is a broad term that purposefully includes the viewpoints of authors from all around the globe.
Due to this inclusive nature, readers can simultaneously experience the lives of people who live in different times and places than them and have very different experiences and viewpoints on life, while simultaneously understanding that many life experiences are, to some degree, universal.
Studying multicultural literature also serves to give a voice to members of oppressed or marginalized communities.
These kind of works are sometimes also referred to as “world” or “global” literature as they gain traction and are translated, if needed, to be more available to more readers. Global literature shares the experience of the writer to everyone willing to read, and if oftentimes written in plain narration with the use of imagery, or it is written in prose/poetry format.
As far as the 20th century goes, the literature written during those hundred years can teach us so much - from the concentration camps of the Holocaust to Native reservations in Northern America, global literature shines a light on voices that would previously have gone unheard. Thanks to modernization, including the internet, authors meld their cultural identity with their chosen identities and teach readers what it means to really be them and make their choices through their writing.
This blog was created by an English student to organize what has been learned about this topic, and will include separate posts on several important themes commonly found within multicultural literature.

















