The April Reading list from My Mom's College
I love the little faculty comments. I asked if this was a comp list class and it was just plain ol' English 101- hmmm!
APRIL READING LIST
Africa:
The Poisonwood Bible
Armenia:
Burning Tigress on Armenia
Houseful of Love by Marjorie Houspian
Three Apples Fell from Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
Cambodia:
The Killing Fields (movie)
Central America:
I Rigoberto Menchu
China:
White Swans
Comment: "An epic memoire - and the exposure of Mao's cruelty was intense."
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Comment: "It's about the Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese soldiers during WWII
Haiti:
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat.
Comment: Maureen Fadem taught this book which deals with the daitian genocide committed by the Trufilo. She says students loved the book.
Hazara:
The Kite Runner by
Comment: . . .about genocide by the Taliban against a sect of Afghanis who are part Mongolian, the Hazara people.
Holocaust:
Night by Elie Weisel
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
Night and Fog (film)
Shoah by Lanzmann
Native America:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by
Vice President Keller and several faculty members suggested this book. It is historical
Roma:
Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
Comment: an acclaimed book about the Roma ("gypsy") genocide and ongoing European persecution. This suggestion came from Vice President Keller and several different faculty members.
Rwanda:
Speak Rwanda: a Novel by Julian R. Pierce
We Hate to Inform You that Tomorrow We Shall Be Dead by Phillip Gourevitch
Murambi: the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop
Sarajevo: Zata's diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic.
Just one correction: that reading list is for the faculty not for the students. Faculty may choose a book for the students. The English department is determined to educate the entire faculty in modern literature and I for one am very happy and trying desperately to find the time to read outside of my sciemtific field.
Posted by: Mamma | April 07, 2006 at 08:48 PM
Wow thats cool! Which one will you read?
Posted by: beebs | April 09, 2006 at 06:17 PM
I would have a hard time reading that entire list. I am glad people are only required to read one. It is heavy on the genoicide. I've read a bunch of them actually. I feel pretty well read. I have NOT read I Rigoberto Menchu and have always wanted to, even though the whole thing is a fake.
Posted by: tuckergurl | April 09, 2006 at 10:14 PM
why is it a fake? Tell me more.
Posted by: beebs | April 10, 2006 at 12:38 AM
oh and which one shuld Mamma read?
Posted by: beebs | April 10, 2006 at 12:39 AM