Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Eleanor Ty talks to novelist Ruth Ozeki about the author's new novel A Tale for the Time Being. Ozeki discusses the way her novel enlarges some of the themes found in her earlier works, especially My Year of Meats and All Over Creation. She explains how she wished to explore new topics suggested by events that have occurred in the last decade. This latest postmodern novel continues to develop notions of hybridity and two parallel cultures and raises environmental concerns, but it also highlights a number of fascinating current issues such as bullying, globalization and the interconnectedness of things and people, the role of technology, and the possibilities of time. Deeply influenced by 9/11, the March 2011 tsunami, and Buddhist principles of interdependence, the novel also stretches back in history to re-envision events from World War II.
Eleanor Ty (Thu,) studied this question.