2025/05/27 by Adama SORO, Bakary SANOKO, Aymar Landry DJOPIE, Aymar Landry DJOPIE & Ataféï PEWISSI
#FOS: Languages and literature
paper · doi:10.48734/akofena.n016.vol.2.10.2025
Abstract: Culture is a sum total of traits both physical and abstract that characterize a people. It comprises, among other things, religion, customs, Man's relationship with the environment and social praxes. Culture inspires writing to carry the cultural message beyond frontiers. Native American writer Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tracks offer materials for the study of the above-mentioned scientific truth. The purpose of this study is to uncover instances of cross-cultural writing and the forces of change that it infuses in the art for potential changes and impacts on society. Through Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theory (1994) that lays emphasis on mixtures of values and cultures of all times and peoples, inspirations and actions help boost due social transformations that often meet the needs of the time. The study raises the awareness that hybridity, combinations of values and social forces need the literary project of crossing existential borders to constantly energize sustainable development initiatives people and institutions engage in the making of their societies. Keywords: cross-cultural writing, race, Native American, gender, culture, change