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Subject: Novels for a course on the 'non-west'
From: Vanessa F Hudson <vfhuds2-AT-uky.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:53:26 -0400


Dear List Serve Members,

Thanks for your very helpful suggestions.  I've pasted a list of the novels/short stories/plays you suggested for my course.  

Since some of you had questions about the course, here's a little more information.  The course I'm teaching is a geography course that fulfills a cross-cultural perspectives requirement at my university, so I am only requiring that the students read one novel (in addition to other readings).  However, I'm planning to put them into reading groups where each group reads a different book.  There are 75 students enrolled and I'm hoping the small groups will engage more students in discussion (it's hard to get everyone talking in a such a large class).  A final project for the groups will be a presentation on their book and how it relates to the themes of the class.   If anyone would like to see a copy of the assignment, email me privately and I'll be happy to forward a copy to you. 

Thanks again,
Vanessa Hudson 


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Makuchi, _Your Madness, Not Mine_ (Ohio UP, 1999). The stories cover a variety of issues from the Aids pandemic ("Slow Poison"); the destruction of the environment ("The Forst Will Claim You Too"); Rape ("The Healer"); stories on post-colonial/economic crises, etc. plaguing Cameroonians/Africans, especially women and children. 

Sia Figiel's 'Where we once belonged'. (It's Samoan.)

Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Said, the ill-fated Pessoptimist: a
Palestinian who became a citizen of Israel

Elias Khoury, Little Mountain

Anton Shammas, Arabesques

Hanan al-Shaykh, The Story of Zahra

Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose (Trans. from French)

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness

Abd al-Rahman Munif, Cities of Salt

Ronit Matalon, The One Facing Us

Keys to the Garden: The New Israeli Writing,
edited by Ammiel Alcalay.

Extended Biblio on Albert Wendt (from Paul Sharrad)
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/icd/publications/wendt.pdf

June Ellis' page at Loyola
http://webdev.loyola.edu/jellis/poco.html

Extended PI lit biblio and sample syllabi:
http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/psiweb/bibliography/pac_lit_guide.html

Samskara by UR Ananthamurthy (not in
English, but translation available) 

Mahasweta Devi's work, a lot of which is available in
translation now (there's a list on the net at the
Seagull website)

Soyinka _ Kongi's harvest (play that goes really well and
addresses the modernity/tradition/postcoloniality
question) 

Mulk Raj Anand. Untouchable

Gita Mehta. Raj

Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind

Pramoedya Toer. This Earth of Mankind

Alejo Carpentier. The Kingdom of this World

Julia Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies

Adhaf Souief. A Map of Love

Buchi Emecheta. The Rape of Shavi

some plays:
Wole Soyinke. Death and the King's Horseman

Caryl Churchill. Cloud-9

David Henry Hwang. M Butterfly

Brian Friel. Translations

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee (about post-apartheid S. Africa)

A Map of Love (colonial and post-colonial Egypt)

The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinksi 
(this is a little different in that it is a collection of essays based on his 20 -30 years of travels throughout Africa -- in Colonial and PostColonial times. vivid illustrations of life and extremely well written)

Deep Rivers_ by José María Arguedas, and _The Green House_ by 
Mario Vargas Llosa.  
They kind of dichotomize one another, because Arguedas' 
book shows more of the indigenous perspective (or at least a sympathetic view 
of the indigenes) and Vargas Llosa's comes in more from the western, 
"nationalist" white man's view. (Peruvian literature)

Tsistia Dangarembga "Nervous Conditions" (Zimbabwe)

Kamala Markandaya "Nectar in a Seive" (India)

Steve Chimombo "The Rubbish Dump" Short Story (Malawi)

Armah "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" (Ghana)

Thomas King "Green Grass, Running Water" (Native Canadian)





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Vanessa Hudson
Geography/U of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027 
859.257.6992 (office)
859.323.1969 (fax)
vfhuds2-AT-uky.edu


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