Instead of a self-contained utopia, he offers us multiple worlds, drifting in and out of focus like a dream.
Inserting herself into her own novel, he said, would be in line with her interest in multiple worlds, autobiography, biographical narratives and i-novels, the Japanese literary genre in which incidents in a story match those in the writer's life.
Growing Up in America Mr. Abdul Rauf, 61, grew up in multiple worlds.
The subject is a personal one for Lim, who has roots in multiple worlds.
The trajectories of their lives had an eerie similarity: both came from small towns and now moved in multiple worlds; both had won scholarships to Harvard; and both blended the personal and the political in their work.
He lived in multiple worlds and hailed from a time when the line between science and art, amateur and professional, even what was outdoor and what was indoor was blurred.
An engineer, a musician, and a dancer, Lina Colucci lives in multiple worlds.
Lewis thinks this problem, what he dubs the 'problem of accidental intrinsics', is a reason to deny that Malloy himself is in multiple worlds.
"I've been an activist, and immersed in multiple worlds of American radicalism, since 1980," she writes.
The politics of race, identity, family, religion and acceptance are so fraught, hurtful and labyrinthine in the U.S. that I wish, for the increasing number of us who live in multiple worlds with multiple heritages, as much love and peace as we can find and meaningful work to create a better world.
