TRANSCULTURAL SEARCH OF ROOTS IN MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND INDIAN LITERATURES
Butenina Evgeniya Mihaylovna
Far-Eastern State University Department of Foreign Literature History
Abstract. In the article literary works by the Mexican-American writer Rudolpho Anaya and the Indian writers Leslie M. Silko and Gerald Vizenor are considered from the point of view of transculture because, thinking about their own cultures, all the three authors appeal to the Chinese heritage.
Key words and phrases: транскультурность, межкультурность, китайская и индейская мифология, transculture, interculture, Chinese and Indian mythology
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