Multicultural Fiction Genre – What’s the best definition for the multicultural genre? Books in the multicultural fiction genre are made up of stories with characters and situations that involve more than one culture or ethnic background. The story could have an interracial relationship or a couple or group of characters that have different religious beliefs or heritages. The conflicts in the multicultural genre could include trying to make a relationship work when two people come from completely different cultural groups or countries. Or it could involve a work or social setting where someone from an ethnic culture is introduced and co-workers have to learn to accept someone new and completely different.
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Multicultural Fiction Genre – Examples
Review this list of popular examples to help you get a better understanding of the multicultural fiction genre.
1. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
2. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
4. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
5. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
6. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
8. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
10. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
11. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
13. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
15. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
16. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
17. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
18. The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
19. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
20. The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
21. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
22. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
23. Waiting by Ha Jin
24. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
25. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
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Multicultural Fiction Genre – Related Book Genres
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