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etumukutenyak) wrote2009-01-27 04:48 pm
etumukutenyak) wrote2009-01-27 04:48 pm
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Reading books by AoC
I've seen some interesting books suggested on LJ, for reading books about/by PoC, and I think I'll start with some of the books I have read that are not pure white.
"The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"Red Azalea" by Anchee Min
(which reminds me of "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng, one of my all-time favorites. I must find it and re-read it.)
"Devil in a Blue Dress" (and other Easy Rawlins books) by Walter Moseley. My dad picked them up from the bookstores in Grand Central, and infected me.
Octavia Butler, in a stack of books ordered all at once, so I can't recall which ones are about what.
Others to be added once I retrieve them from the dusty vaults of memory. I am looking forward to reading Barbara Neely's "Blanche White" series, the first one of which I've ordered.
ETA: On the way home I realized I'd read a fair number of writings by African authors in my advanced French classes during high school. That's probably one reason why some international authors aren't better known in the US: if it has to be translated, it somehow loses appeal. Anyway, that's when I first read of the trickery of Anansi, the poetry of Senghor, and the short stories of several authors whose names escape me. I shall track them down.
"The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"Red Azalea" by Anchee Min
(which reminds me of "Life and Death in Shanghai" by Nien Cheng, one of my all-time favorites. I must find it and re-read it.)
"Devil in a Blue Dress" (and other Easy Rawlins books) by Walter Moseley. My dad picked them up from the bookstores in Grand Central, and infected me.
Octavia Butler, in a stack of books ordered all at once, so I can't recall which ones are about what.
Others to be added once I retrieve them from the dusty vaults of memory. I am looking forward to reading Barbara Neely's "Blanche White" series, the first one of which I've ordered.
ETA: On the way home I realized I'd read a fair number of writings by African authors in my advanced French classes during high school. That's probably one reason why some international authors aren't better known in the US: if it has to be translated, it somehow loses appeal. Anyway, that's when I first read of the trickery of Anansi, the poetry of Senghor, and the short stories of several authors whose names escape me. I shall track them down.
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[rant ON]
I am so tired of people complaining about "speaking English only" as if that were the magic ideal for assimilating into this country, and then also complaining that we can't get anywhere overseas because we don't have enough "native speakers" of a language to be able to understand the terrists on the phone. Let's see them learn another language well-enough to communicate daily in it, and then they can complain about all Those People, some of whom are my relatives.
[rant OFF]
Yes. Well.
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