Some time ago I wrote to the list asking for suggestions for novels that
would be useful for teaching a Geography and Development class. Thanks to
all who sent recommendations, I've listed them below.
Unfortunately, I didn't have time to integrate novels into my class as
fully as I had hoped. I did however, have students read Barbara
Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible and we had a great time with it. I was
impressed with how they were able to pull from the novel many of the ideas
we had discussed in class - especially with regards to the
colonizer-colonized relationship and the situatedness of social actors -
it evoked much more passion and creative thinking than I had anticipated.
Regards,
Clare
Paule Marshall's 'The Chosen Place, The Timeless People'
John Stienbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'
Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'
D.H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers'
Coraghessan Boyle's 'Tortilla Curtain'
George Orwell 'Burmese Days'
Vargas Llosa 'Death in the Andes'
Robert Frost poems 'The Lone Striker' and 'The Roadside Stand'
Robinson Crusoe
Anthology: 'Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader'
Frederick Buell's 'National Culture and the New Global System' (a book
of lit crit that places novels in the context of world systems
theory/theories).
Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance'
Don DeLillo's novels 'Names' and 'Mao II'
Octavia Butler's two novels 'Parable of the Sower' and 'Parable of the
Talents'
Kate Wheeler "When Mountains Walk"
J. M. Coetzee "Disgrace"
Richard Dooling "White Man's Grave"
Achebe's novels
Karl Taro Greenfeld 'Speed Tribes'
Clare Newstead, Doctoral Candidate
Department of Geography, Box 353550
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98144, USA
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