Perspectives

In this part of the study guide, we will focus on points and ideas that can help you put the short story “Departure Time” by Tessa Green in perspective by making connections between the text and current issues, literary period and similar works.…

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Current issues

Issues related to culture clash or cultural differences are constantly present in the globalised world we live in. Nowadays, people move to other countrie…

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Literary period

Tessa Green’s “Departure Time” belongs to the literary movement we call postmodernism. The traits of postmodernist writings are hard to frame in clear terms because the postmodernist period spans o…

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of the impact of cultural differences on relationships we recommend that you read short stories like “Day Trippers” by Raman Mundair and “The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In “Day Trippers”, an Indian man and an Indian woman rediscover their culture through their extramarital affair. Both had cho…