Book Choice
guidelines for choosing your text for essay # 3 (the midterm)
please choose a text--novel or non-fiction--told from the perspective of a colonized people. Once you have chosen a text, let me know so I can approve it.
Possible perspectives and potential book choices:
African Things
Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe African-American Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,
Frederick Douglass Native
American Mountain
Windsong: A Trail of Tears, Robert Conley Pushing
the Bear Indian
Killer, Sherman Alexie The
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman
Alexie Filipino Noli Me Tangere,
Jose
Rizal When
the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Cecilia Brainard Latino Song
of the Hummingbird, Graciela Limon (El
Salvadoran) The
Aguero Sisters, Cristina Garcia (Cuban) Indian Ghandi
These are by no mean the only "colonized" people or choices for books, rather this list is a place to start thinking about a book choice.
I also suggest talking with a librarian--they often can rattle off a list of books on the spot--as well as doing research either online or through electronic library book searches.