File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1999/postcolonial.9908, message 57


Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:35:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: reading list ideas


Hi Melanee,

I would look at Janette Turner Hospital's _The Last Magician_, if I were
you. Possibly also Peter Carey's _Oscar and Lucinda_. Though maybe I am
the only one who would see a connection between the latter and your topic.

Judith Tabron

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Melanee D. Grondahl wrote:

> I am a graduate student, embarking on an independent study this semester
> on Post-Colonial Literature and Life Writing. I need to compile a reading
> list that is appropriate for my study, but have few ideas of books that
> would address the issues I'm studying. Does anyone have any suggestions of
> books that speak of the immergence and repression of multiple selves
> through immigration? It would be wonderful to find this topic in letter,
> journal, autobiography, biography or diary form. I am currently comparing
> Mukherjee's Holder of the World and Jasmine on this same subject minus the
> Life Writing angle. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Melanee
> 
> 
> 
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