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Abstract
This dissertation aims at introducing a base for understanding some of the contemporary cultural developments in America. It sheds light on multiculturalism, which constitutes the base of the emergence of both transculturalism and cosmopolitanism as more evolutionary cultural approaches recognizing and accepting that every culture has its own unique morals and traditions as well as expressing the idea that there is no one culture embracing the whole human experience, however it must be lacking or missing something. It also seeks to prove that there are sides of insufficiency and incompleteness in every culture and in order to reach perfection, all cultures must be treated as one entity. The current dissertation firstly presents applications of the transcultural approach on Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Houston’s Tea as well as exposing the transcultural features that can be found in these two plays. Moreover, it deals with how the two female playwrights apply transculturalism to encourage the process of going beyond the cultural borders and transcending the different barriers, which can exist between different ethnic groups in modern societies, especially the contemporary American society. Secondly, this dissertation presents applications of the Cosmopolitan approach on Barroga’s Walls and Kennedy’s The Ohio State Murders. It investigates the attempts to identify both Asian- and African-American as victims of the American nation-state that do not interpret a community solely in terms of emotional loss and suffering but rather discover narratives of victimization ideologically charged in this community. It shows how pluralism and cosmopolitanism concepts manifested in these two works of drama, whilst at the same time sinking deeply into underlying questions concerning the pains shared and marginalization experiences. Eventually, this dissertation proves how all these approaches fit modern multicultural societies, especially the American society with its minorities, immigrants, and different racial ethnicities, who still suffer such practices of discrimination.