Acculturation as a Literary Theme (Identities and Issues in Literature)
Overview
“Acculturation” is not a common term in literary studies; it has been used mainly in sociological and anthropological studies. The term did not find its way into The Oxford English Dictionary until 1989; it first appeared in the writings of an American geologist and ethnologist, John Wesley Powell, in 1880. Despite the fact that study of cultural modifications is international, the term is still primarily American. The study of acculturation has gone beyond the realm of cultural anthropology, and numerous studies have been conducted to define and...
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