Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:13:10 +0100 From: picuder-AT-uhu.es (pilar cuder) Subject: Re: Request for Novel Recommendations At 08:28 PM 10/24/96 +0000, janette martin wrote: >I'll be teaching an undergraduate literature class in the spring and am >looking for recommendations for novels written by contemporary authors >from around the world that you think students would particularly enjoy. >I'm thinking of including Dangaremba's _Nervous Conditions_, Kincaid's >_Annie John_, possibly Wilson Harris's _Palace of the Peacock_, _The Crow >Eaters_. I'm especially interested in Korean, Chinese, or Japanese >novels, but any will help. So, if you can think of something exciting >for this "World Tour" course, please forward to me. Thanks In my experience, students really enjoy two Caribbean novels: CAMBRIDGE, by Caryl Phillips, and THE LONGEST MEMORY, by Fred D'Aguiar, both on the subject of slavery. The latter is really short (around a hundred pages). Hope it works! Pilar --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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