World Literature Anthology 2010 English 10h mrs. Morgan

1 poem

1 essay/article

1 work from a genre of your choice *
Works by female authors:

1 poem

1 essay/article

1 work from a genre of your choice *
Works by other world authors:

2 works from a genre of your choice *

1 sample from a published journal or diary

1 work of science fiction *

1 article/essay
Poems:

7 poems in a poetry notebook must include at least 7 different

world authors - representing the following countries: Africa, Latin America, Russia, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and North America (female or African-American)
Novels:

Must include 1 novel - these may be used in * places

Suggested World Literature Authors

and Possible Works
Here are some authors to get you started. You are certainly not limited to these authors or works. Look around and see what you can find. Other teachers or your parents can be great resources as well. I have numerous other lists; this is merely a sampling! Unless otherwise indicated, they are all novels.
Africa
Achebe - A Man of the People

Things Fall Apart

Emecheta - The Bride Price

Fugard - Sizwe Bansi is Dead

Gordimer - July’s People

Head - When Rain Clouds Gather

Ngugi - The River Between

Paton - Cry the Beloved Country

Soyinka - Ake’ (difficult reading)

Garcia-Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima

Alfredo Vea - La Maravilla

Silver Cloud Cafe

North America (if not on this list, consider only females and African Americans)
Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (some scenes are graphic)

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale (fairly graphic)

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (some graphic scenes)

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Song of Solomon

Richard Wright - Black Boy

Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Michael Dorris - A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Barbara Kingsolver - Animal Dreams

N.Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn

Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony (short - boys)

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Alexander Solzenhitsyn - A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

War and Peace (looonnnggg)

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons

Alexi Zemyatin - We
Asia
Ibuse Masuji - Black Rain

Kobo Abe - Friends

Yukio Mishima - The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

The Sound of Waves

Junichiro Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters (long)

Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club

David Mura - Turning Japanese

Gish Jen - Typical American

Frank Chin - Donald Duk

Middle East
Woman at Point Zero*, Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian --Gripping novel of an oppressed woman who strikes back
Distant View of a Minaret*, Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian --Understated short stories that capture the flavor of life for women in a Muslim society.
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery*, Bahaa' Taher, Egyptian --Unnamed narrator recalls his boyhood in a farming village in Upper Egypt; themes of retribution and modernization. Excellent introduction and glossary;
Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber , Jordanian-American --A Jordanian-American family's life in a lower-middle-class town in upstate New York. Past tragedies haunt the grown daughters and their widowed father, as well as their aunt, Fatima. Yet there are "laugh-out-loud" segments that make this a delight. Of all the books listed here, this is perhaps the most enjoyable and accessible to a "general" audience. The author has a new novel coming out in April 2003
Habibi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Palestinian-American --Beautifully-designed book for young adults, featuring a teenage girl, Liyana, who moves with her family from St. Louis to Jerusalem and develops a relationship with a Jewish boy.
Through and Through: Toledo Stories, Joseph Geha, Syrian/Lebanese-American --These stories have a "reminiscent" character, and reveal the various facets of the immigrant experience.
A Woman of Nazareth, Hala Deeb Jabbour, Palestinian --Amal, a Palestinian woman living in a Beirut refugee camp in the 1960s, takes a non-traditional path. Intimate look into her thought processes.
Wild Thorns*, Sahar Khalifeh, Palestinian --A heartbreaking account of the indignity, squalor, frustration, and violence of life in Nablus (West Bank).
Miramar*, Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian
Who Remembers the Sea*, Mohammed Dib, Algerian --Allegorical treatment of the war for independence in Algeria.
The Golden Chariot*, Salwa Bakr, Egyptian --Satirical novel set in a women's prison during the Nasser era.
Season of Migration to the North*, Al-Tayyib (Tayeb) Salih, Sudanese
Endings*, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Saudi Arabian
Year of the Elephant*, Leila Abouzeid, Moroccan --Zahra, a Moroccan woman, seeks to merge her Islamic faith with a quest for independence. 
Daughter of Damascus*, Siham Turjuman, Syrian --"Rich reminiscence of childhood and life in the old quarters of Damascus" (Kay Campbell). 
City of Saffron*, Edward al-Kharrat, Egyptian - Meditative yet subversively intimate ruminations about childhood" (Edward Said).
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian--Fascinating multi-generational love story interwoven with history.

Western Europe
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Daphne duMaurier - Rebecca

Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus

Jane Austen - Emma

Anais Nin -

Collete

Guy de Maupassant

Aiken, Conrad Potter (1889-1973) (Savannah) poetry