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Reading International Women of Color Fiction

While searching for a title for a Sociology course's (Racism & Sexism) book essay, I came across this glorious reading list which I promptly poached for a perpetual challenge.


AFRICAN WOMEN


About Africa(Drew) 1989

And They Didn't Die (Ngcobo) 1999

Burger's Daughter (Gordimer) 1979

Changes: A Love Story (Aidoo) 1991, 1993

Double Yoke (Emecheta) c1983,1993

Efuru (Nwapa) c1966,1989

The Expedition To Baobab Tree (Stockenstrom) 1983

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Djebar) c1985,1993

A Gap In the Wall (Estivals) c1962,1963

The Joys Of Motherhood (Emecheta) 1979

July's People (Gordimer) 1981

The Moonlight Bride (Emecheta) c1980, 1983

My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories By Egyptian Women (Booth) 1991

Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga) 1988

No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Aidoo) 1995

None To Accompany Me (Gordimer) 1994

The Slave Girl (Emecheta) 1977 So Long a Letter (Ba) c1981, 1989

Something Out There (Gordimer) c1979,1986

Sometimes When It Rains: Writings By South African Women (Oosthuizen) 1987

A Wife For My Son (Ghalem) 1984

A World Of Strangers (Gordimer) c1958,1981

The Wrestling Match (Emecheta) c1980,1983



ASIAN WOMEN (
China, Japan, Korea)


Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie) 2001

Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories By Women Writers Of Taiwan (Carver & Chang) 1990

Black Rain (Ibuse) c1969,1985

Born Of the Same Roots: Stories Of Modern Chinese Women (Hsu) 1981

Bound Feet (Dai) 1988

Chinese Women Writers: A Collection Of Short Stories By Chinese Women Writers Of the 1920's (Anderson) 1985

Clay Walls (Ronyoung) c1987,1990

Comfort Woman (Keller) 1997

Contemporary Women Writers: Hong Kong and Taiwan (Hung) 1990

Daughters Of the Red Land (Li) 1995

The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel Of Revolutionary China (Chen) c1980, 1982

Dream Of the Walled City (Fleischman) 2000

The Electrical Field (Sakamoto) c1998, 1999

The Embriodered Shoes (Xue) 1997

Face Of a Stranger (Yamaguchi) 1995

The Floating World (Kadohata) c1989, 1991

Foreign Bodies (Tan) c1997, 1999

Fresh Girls and Other Stories (Lau) 1995

Frontiers Of Love (Chang) c1956, 1994

A Girl Like Me and Other Stories (Xi) c1986, 1988

I Wish I Were a Wolf. The New Voice In Chinese Women's Literature (Kingsbury) 1994

Japanese Women Writers 20th Century Short Fiction (Lippit & Selden) 199

Katherine (Min) 1995

The Language Of Threads (Tsukiyama) 1999

The Legend Of Fire Horse Woman (Houston) 2003

The Long Season Of Rain (Kim) 1996

The Loom and Other Stories (Sasaki) 1991

Love Must Not Be Forgotten (Jie) c1986, 1987

Maidenhome (Xiaoqi) 1993

The Moon Pearl (McCunn) 2000

Obasan (Kogawa) c1981, 1982

One Half of the Sky: Selection From Contemporary Women Writers Of China(Roberts & Knox) 1987

One Hundred and One Ways (Yoshikawa (1999)

One Hundred Million Hearts (Sakamoto) 2003

One Thousand Chestnut Trees (Stout) 1998

Picture Bride (Uchida) 1987

Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction On Love and Sex Between Women (Sieber) 2001

Red Ivy Green Earth Mother (Bei) 1990

The Rose Colored Dinner: New Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Writers (Liu) 1988

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Yamamoto) 1988

Stories By Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (Lippit & Selden) 1982

The Strangeness Of Beauty (Minatoya) 1999

This Kind Of Woman: Ten Stories By Japanese Women Writers, 1960-1976 (Tanaka & Hanson) c1982, 1984

Traces Of Love and Other Stories (Chang) 2000

Three Daughters Of Madame Liang (Buck) c1969, 1991

Under the Phoenix Tree (Dai) 1990

Unmapped Territories: New Women's Fiction From Japan (Tanaka) 1991

The Waiting Years (Enchi) c1971, 1981

Wayfarer: New Fiction By Korean Women (Fulton & Fulton) 1997

White Snake and Other Stories (Yan) 1999

A Woman Called En (Ohara) 1986

Women Of the Silk (Tsukiyama) 1991

Words Of Farewell: Stories By Korean Women Writers (Sok-kyong) 1989

Year Of Impossible Goodbyes (Choi) 1991



CARIBBEAN WOMEN


Abeng (Cliff) c1984,1985

Angel (Collins) 1987

Annie John (Kincaid) c1983,1985

At the Bottom Of the River (Kincaid) c1978, 1992

The Autobiography Of My Mother (Kincaid) c1996,1997

Beyond the Limbo Silence (Nunez) 19

Brown Girl In the Ring (Hopkinson) 1998

Cereus Blooms At Night (Mootoo) c1996, 1998

Desirada (Conde) 2000

Dew Breaker (Danticat) 2004

Dry Land Tourist and Other Stories (Maguire) 1991

Green Cane Juicy Slotsam: Short Stories By Caribbean Women (Esteves & Paravisini-Gebert) 1992

In the Time Of the Butterflies (Alvarez)

The Land of Look Behind (Cliff) 1985

A Matter Of Pride and Other Stories (Mohr) 1997

Midnight Robber (Hopkinson) 2000 No Telephone To Heaven (Cliff) 1987

Praisesong For the Widow (Marshall) 1983

Skin Folk (Hopkinson) 2001

Song Of the Water Saints (Rosario) 2002

Sugar Cage (Fowler) 1992

Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulust Fiction (Hopkinson) 2000



LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN (
Central & South America, Cuba, Puerto Rico)


The Aguero Sisters (Garcia) 1997

Bitter Grounds (Benitez) 1997

Cantando Bajito: Singing Softly (de Monteflores) 1989

The Coloured Girl In the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers (DoHarris) 1997

Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities: Short Stories By Latin American Women Writers (Benner & Leonard) 1998

Cubana: Contemporary Fiction By Cuban Women (Yanez) 1998

Daughter Of Fortune (Allende) 1999

Days Of Awe (Obejas) 2001

Destroy, She Said (Duras) 1970

Dreaming in Cuban (Garcia) c1992,1993

Eccentric Neighborhoods (Ferre) c1998, 1999

Eva Luna (Allende) 1989

Fire From the Andes: Short Fiction By women From Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru (Benner & Leonard) 1998

The Honorable Prison (de Jenkins) 1998

House Of Mist and The Shrouded Woman (Bombal) c1995,1998

The House Of Spirits (Allende) c1986,1988

In the Eye Of the Sun (Soueif) c1992, 1994

Landscapes Of a New Land: Short Fiction By Latin American Women (Agosin) 1989 The Line Of the Sun (Cofer) 1989

New Islands and Other Stories (Bombla) c1982, 1988

One Hundred Years After Tomorrow: Brazilian Women's Fiction In the 20th Century (Sadlier) 1992

Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now (Berg) 2003

Other Fires: Short Fiction By Latin American Women (Manguel) 1986

Out Of the Mirrored Garden (Poey) 1996

Paradise (Castedo) 1990

Paula (Allende) 1999

Portrait Of Sepia (Allende) 2001

Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories By Contemporary Puerto Rican Women (Velez) c1988, 1997

Scents Of Wood and Silence: Short Stories By Latin American Women Writers (Ross & Miller) 198

A Secret Weavers Anthology: Selections From the Secret Weavers Series --- Writing By Latin American Women (Herrera) 1998

Short Stories By Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (de Zapata) c1986, 1990

SplintF ,ig Darkness: Latin American Women Writers In Search Of Themselves (Cunningham) 1990

A Lil of Too Much Is Enough (Tyau) 19$6

You Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (Obejas) 1994 What Is Secret: Stories By Chilean Women (Agosin) 1995

When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories By women Writers From Costa Rica and Panama (Levi) 1991



MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN


A Balcony Over the Fakihani (Dadr) c1983, 1993

Beirut Blues (al-Shaykh) c1992,1995

Blue Aubergine (al-Tahawy) 2002

Cry Of the Peacock (Nahai) 1991

Dear Shameless Death (Tekin) 2001

Flight Against Time (Nasrallah) 1987

The Fortune Catcher (Pari) 1997

Foreigner (Rachlin) c1978, 1999

From a Sealed Room (Kadish) 1998

God Dies By the Nile (el-Saadawi) 1985

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops (al-Shaykh) 1998

In a Voice Of Their Own: A Collection Of Stories By Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution Of 1979 (Lewis & Yazdanfar) 1996

In the Eye Of the Sun (Soueif) 1992, 1994

The Map Of Love (Soueif) 1999

Moonlight On the Avenue Of Faith (Nahia) 1999

Only In London (al-Shaykh) 2001

The Open Door (al-Zayyat) c1960,2000

The Red Tent (Diamant) 1997

A Runaway Wife (A1 Hijaz) 2004

A Sister To Scheherazade (Djebar) c1987, 1993

Sitt Marie Rose (Adnan) c1982,1992

The Story of Zahra (al-Shaykh) c1986, 1995

Veils: Short Stories (Rachlin) 1992

Voices Of Change: Short Stories By Saudi Arabian Women Writers (Bagader, Hweinrichsdorff, Akers) 1998

Walnut Sapling On Masih's Grave and Other Stories By Iranian Women (Green & Yazdanfar) 1993

Welcome To Heavenly Heights (Miller) 2003

Woman At Point Zero (el-Saadawi) c1975, 1983

Women Without Men: A Novel Of Modern Iran (Parsipur) 1994

NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR (not U.S).--- Canada, Mexico

Here's To You, Jesusa! (Poniatowska) 2001

The Law Of Love (Esquivel) 1995

Like Water For Chocolat (Esquivel) 1989

AThe Mixquiahuala Letters (Castillo) c1986, 1992

Monkey Beach (Robinson) 2000

A Necklace Of Words: Short Fiction By Mexican Women (Agosin) 1997

 No One Will See Me Cry (Rivera-Garza) 2003

Tear this Heart Out (Mastretta (1997)

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Wallis) 19

Who Would Have Thought It? (de Burton) 1995

Women With Big Eyes (Mastretta) 1997

 

PACIFIC ISLAND WOMEN

Ba' jtan: An Anthology Of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (Carbo & Tabios) 2000

Blu "s Hanging (Yamanaka) c1997,2001

Dream Jungle (Hagerdorn) 2003

Filipina I (Women Writers in Media Now) 1984

Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila (Villaneuva) 1991

Going Home To a Landscape: Writings By Filipinas (Villanueva & Cerenio) 2003

The Kissing: A Collection Of Short Stories (Bobis) 2001

The Last Time I Saw Mother (Chai) 1995

The Lowest Flame Before Nothing (Stapleton) 1998

Magdalena (Brainard) 2002

Shark Dialogues (Davenport) 1995

Song of the Exile (Davenport) 1999

Songs Of Ourselves: Writings By Filipino Women In English (Manlapaz) 1994

State Of War (Rosca) c1988, 1990

Talking to the Dead and Other Stories (Watanabe) 1992

Twelve Philippine Women Writers (Lapena-Bonificio) c1994,1995

Where We Once Belonged (Figiel) c1996,1999

White Turtle (Bobis) 1999

Woman With Horns and Other Stories (Manguerra-Brainard) 1998




SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMEN


Anita and Me (Syal) 1996

Arranged Marriage (Divakaruni) 1995

The Binding Vine (Deshpande) c1992, 2000

Birthday Deathday and Other Stories (Perera) c1974, 1985

Brick Lane (Ali) 2003

Clear Light Of Day (Desai) 1980

The Coffin Tree (Law-Yone) 1983

The Crooked Line (Chughtai) 1995

The Crow Eaters (Sidhwa) c1978, 1992

Desirable Daughters (Mukherjee) 2002

Fasting, Feasting (Desai) 1999

Flash House (Liu) 2003

For Matrimonial Purposes (Daswani) 2003

Getting There (Padmanabhan) 2000

The Glassblower's Breath (Gupta) 1993

The God Of Small Things (Roy) 1997

Goodbye, Saigon(Vida) 1994

Heat and Dust (Jhabvala) c1975,1987

Holder Of the World (Mukherjee) 1993

Hoops Of Fire: Fifty Years Of Fiction By Pakistani Women (Hussein) 1999

Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Stories (Padmanabhan) 1998

Interpreter Of Maladies (Lahiri) 1999

Jasmine (Mukherjee) c1989,19993 )

Junglee Girl (Kamani) 1995

Kleptomania: Ten Stories (Padmanabhan) 2004

Lajja/Shame (Nasrin) 1994

Leave It To Me (Mukherjee) 1997

The Lioness In Boom: Modern Thai Fiction About Women (Kepner) 1996

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (Syal) 1999

A Matter Of Time (Deshpande) 1996

May You Be the Mother Of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women Of India (Bumiller) 1990

Memories Of a Pure Spring (Huong) 2000

Memories Of Rain (Gupta) 1992

Miniplanner (Dawesar) 2000

The Mistress Of Spice (Divakaruni) 1997

Monkey Bridge (Cao) 1997

The Namesake (Lahiri) 2003

Of Customs and Excise: Short Fiction (Mara) 1991

The Perfect Woman: Short Stories (Sharma) 1994

Raj (Mehta) c1989, 1991

A River Sutra (Mehta) 19993

Sare Mare (Walker) 1987

Sister Of My Heart (Divakaruni) c1999, 2000

A Stronger Climate (Jhabvala)1968,1985

Sultana's Dream and Selections From the Secluded Ones (Hosain) 1988

Sunlight On a Broken Column (Hosain) c1961,1989

To Do Something Beautiful (Rhoini) 1990

Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories By Women Writers Of India (Kali for Women) c1986,1990

The Vine Of Desire (Divakaruru) 2002


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