Intercultural Research Series Foreword Michael H.Prosser Volume Preface Cultural Patterns of Communication-Values-Identity Struggles A New Stage of Comparative Literature: An Introduction to the New SISU Ph.D.Program - Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies Section One Comparative Analyses of Literary Value Constructions 1.Value and Canonicity: The Making of World Literature 2.Cultures of Honor, Cultures of Face: Literary Representations of Gendered Values 3.Writing Maafa: Narratives of Violence in the Works of Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Audre Lorde, and Fred D'Aguiar 4.Comparative Sexual Ethics: William Faulkner and Mo Yan 5.Chinese Literature \