Jamila Gavin, una scrittrice multiculturale: il caso diThree Indian Goddesses
Abstract
Multicultural education “addresses the interests, concerns, and experiences of individuals and groups considered outside the socio- political and cultural mainstream of American society” (Taxel 2002: 172), and “challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination in schools and society” (Nieto 1996: 307). Jamila Gavin, who defines herself English and Indian, wrote Three Indian Goddesses. These stories make children belonging to the “West World” understand some Indian myths, still feeling their otherness. This is a rewriting that should appeal to the children’s appetite for the world.
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