This collection of essays, memoirs, poems, stories, and artwork looks at                  globalization as a worldwide exchange of art and ideas. Writing the World focuses on                  the cultural realities of globalism -- the opportunities it provides to learn from                  other cultures. This knowledge, argue David Rothenberg and Wandee Pryor in their                  introduction, can be power: "When all of us learn enough about our differences to                  respect the diversity that exists, we will be unable to pretend we are the same. We                  will never accept the old innocence and ignorance bred by oppression and                  exploitation." For the contributors to Writing the World, to dream of the global                  village is to see the world not as a vast market but as a place of shared values and                  linked wonder."It is time to listen to the many literate voices the world speaks,"                  say Rothenberg and Pryor. The voices of Writing the World range from Arundhati Roy                  on the "colonization of knowledge" in her essay "The Ladies Have Feelings, So...                  Shall We Leave It to the Experts?" to Naomi Klein's meditation on fences, ownership,                  and property. They include Bill McKibben on women farmers in Bangladesh, Hannes                  Westberg's account of being shot by Swedish police at a demonstration, James Barilla                  on invading and indigenous plant species in "The Aliens in the Garden," and many                  other vivid, compelling, and provocative writings that celebrate -- and illustrate                  -- "the poetry of cultural contact." Artists and photographers whose work appears in                  the book include Adam Clayman, Jenny Matthews, Richard Robinson, and Arpita                  Singh.

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