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Motif: Culturally Comparative Perspective

Minari

Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new beginnings are always challenging, and
MovieCulturally Comparative PerspectiveEmphasizing localityGardeningCaring For Family

Gun Island

Gun Island is set in an ecologically unstable world, telling a story of places where rising temperatures and water levels have uprooted human and animal lives and upended political systems.
LiteratureCulturally Comparative PerspectiveEnvironmentalism as part of National IdentityExpanding Literary ImaginaryNational Idiosyncrasies

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