History 356
Books for Paper #2
(Periodically updated. Most recent: 10/26/01)
Middle East
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Leila Ahmed. A Border Passage. Memoir about growing up in post-World
War II Egypt as an upper-class girl.
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Fadwa Tuqan. A Mountainous Journey. Autobiography/memoir of an upper-class
Palestinian woman poet growing up in conservative Nablus during the British
mandate period (1920s-1940s).
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Hala Sakakini. Jerusalem and I. Memoir of a young Christian Palestinian
woman from Jerusalem. (Gina P.)
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Fay Afaf Kanafani. Nadia: Captive of Hope. Autobiography of a Lebanese
woman (born 1918) who experienced all the turmoil of Lebanon and Palestine,
where she spent part of her married life.
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Leila Khaled. My People Shall Live. Memoir of a Palestinian woman
guerrilla who was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
and hijacked a plane in the 1970s. (Sunday)
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Huda Sharawi. Harem Years. Memoir of growing up in an upper class
harem in Egypt; she later became a founder of Egyptian feminism. (Sara
V.)
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Fatima Mernissi. Dreams of Trespass. Memoir of growing up in an
upper class harem in Morocco (a little later and a different culture entirely
from Sharawi -- interesting contrast.)
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Simin Daneshvar. Savushun. Novel about a young married woman in
post-World War II Iran.
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Gohard Kordi. An Iranian Odyssey. Memoir of a young blind girl growing
up in early 20th century Iran. (Kelly)
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Ali Ghalem. A Wife For my Son. (Novel, Algeria.)
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Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. Three Mothers, Three Daughters.
Oral histories of Palestinian women of different generations and lower
classes.
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Hanan al-Shaykh. Women of Sand and Myrrh. (Novel, Saudi Arabia.)
(Jamie)
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Taj Al-Saltanah. Crowning Anguish : Memoirs of a Persian Princess from
the Harem to Modernity, 1884-1914. Memoir of a Qajar princes in Iran
who was a political activist.
Africa
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Aman: the story of a Somalian girl. As told to Virginia Lee Barnes
and Janice Boddy.
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Three Swahili Women: Life Histories from Mombasa, Kenya, edited
and translated by Sarah Mirza and Margaret Strobel. Oral histories of three
women.
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Mpho 'M'atsepo, Singing Away the Hunger: the Autobiography of an African
Woman. (Sarah H)
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Marjorie Shostak, Nisa, the Life and Words of a Kung Woman. Oral
history.
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Mary Smith. Baba of Karo, a woman of the Moslem Hausa. Oral history.
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Mariama Ba. So Long a Letter. (Novel, set in Senegal.)
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Buchi Emecheta. The Bride Price. (Novel, Nigeria.)
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Tsitsi Dangarembga. Nervous Conditions. (Novel,
Zimbabwe.)
Latin America and the Caribbean
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Paule Marshall. The Chosen Place, the Timeless People. (Novel, Caribbean.)
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Paule Marshall. Daughters. (Novel, Caribbean.)
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Julia Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies. (taken. Laura
Kissel)
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Domitila Barrios de Chungara. Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a
Woman of the Bolivian Mines. With Moema Viezzer. Trans. Victoria Ortiz.
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Carolina Maria de Jesus. Beyond all Pity. Memoir of woman from a
Brazilian slum.(Misti, Courtney [?])
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Edwidge Danticat. Breath, Eyes, Memory. (Christy)
(Novel, Haiti.)
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Jamaica Kincaid. Annie John. Novel about a young girl growing up
in Antigua.
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Julia Alvarez. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. (Novel,
Dominican Republic.) (Betsy)
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Cristina Garcia. Dreaming in Cuban. (Novel, revolutionary Cuba.)
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Meda Benjamin, trans. and ed. Don't be Afraid, Gringo: the Story of
Elvia Alvarado. (Novel, Honduras) (Nikki)
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Isabel Allende. The House of the Spirits. (Novel, Chile) (Megan
Doyle)
India
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Viramma: Life of an Untouchable. By Viramma, Josiane Racine and
Jean Luc Racine. (Jennifer)
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Shudha Mazumdar; edited with an introduction by Geraldine Forbes. Memoirs
of an Indian woman.
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Parvati Athavale; translated by Justin E. Abbott. My story: autobiography
of a Hindu widow.
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The memoirs of Dr. Haimabati Sen: from child widow to lady doctor.
Translated
by Tapan Raychaudhuri; edited by Geraldine Forbes.
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Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal; edited by Geraldine Forbes. An Indian freedom
fighter recalls her life.
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Shauna Singh Baldwin. What the Body Remembers. (novel) (Megan
Flynn)
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Bharati Mukherjee. The Tiger's Daughter. (novel)
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Suzanne Fisher Staples. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. (Novel. Pakistan.)
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Chitra Banerjee Divakruni. Sister of My Heart. (Novel, India) (Randi)