ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the misunderstandings and cultural violence between cultures through the creative literature. It examines the West and non-West and the deviations inherent in each formation that includes cultural production from 'outside' the west. Globalization, especially in its dominant popular and media usages, is capitalism, but now without the concrete and institutionalised socialist alternative. The cultural heterogeneity of Latin America is at once different from and determined by the 'linier' history of the West, which both nests inside and shapes Latin American history, often by erasure. In the construction of the Orientalism, the struggles between secularism and Islam dominate. Recourse to the language of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, jingoism and the manipulation of nationalism is triggered by fear and ignorance. The ranges of multinational characters that appear in numerous works take readers through unique stories, insight that helps make sense of international relations.
