File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-11-06.145, message 93


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




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