A useful discussion of the various issues involved is to be found in Orphée noir, in Sartre's introduction to Senghor's ANTHOLOGIE DE LA NOUVELLE POÉSIE NÉGRE ET MANGACHE (1948). ...

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"Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford, "La Relacion" by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, and "My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors" by Maya Angelou provide brief explanations on how one can have a positive cross-cultural encounter. ... "La Relacion" was similar to "Plymouth Plantation" in that the men from the ship confronted Indians upon their arrival. ...

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What is the border? The border is a marginalized, liminal space of contradictions. A space of shifting multiple identities. Life on the borders is life in the shadow. The border is where two or more cultures, classes, races, ideologies, et cetera edge or confront each other. There is a space be...

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