Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Name the last book by a female author that you’ve read.
Azar Nafisi - "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

Name the last book by an African or African-American author that you’ve read.
Frederick Douglass - "Narrative of the Life of FD, an American Slave"

Name one from a Latino/a author.
Marquez - "An old man with huge wings"

How about one from an Asian country or Asian-American?
Maxine Hong-Kingston - "The Woman Warrior"

What about a GLBT writer?
Walt Whitman poetry

Why not name an Israeli/Arab/Turk/Persian writer, if you’re feeling lucky?
Khaled Hosseini - "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

Any other “marginalized” authors you’ve read lately?
Max Blecher (Romanian Jewish author)

1 comment:

  1. 1. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

    2. Idem

    3. Julia Alvarez - How Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

    4. Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club

    5. Michael Cunningham - The Hours

    6. Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red

    7. *nu stiu dece zilele acestea mi-a fost dor (O_o) de Intamplari din irealitatea imediata...

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