TARGET, SEC: Additional titles for women in cultures biblio

[Rena Deutsch <renadeutsch@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

r(?).  We have a class on
women in different cultures (can't remember the correct title of the
course), and the teacher has decided that this semester students will be
reading either a novel or a memoir of a woman from a different
country/culture.  So far, this means only cultures outside the US, not
minority cultures within the US (e.g, Native American, Hispanic/Latina,
immigrants here, etc).

I have compiled a list of approx. 25 titles,  including adult and YA books,
both fiction and non-fiction (see below) but when you peruse the list you
will see that many of the books take place in the early 1900's to 1950's. I
would like to have some titles that represent women's lives a little closer
to the end of the 20th century if possible.

Can anyone recommend any titles (novels and memoirs, not short stories)?

list so far:

AUSTRALIA Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain.

NIGERIA
Emecheta, Buchi. The Bride Price.
Emecheta, Buchi. Double Yoke.
Emecheta, Buchi. Joys of Motherhood.
Emecheta, Buchi. Second-class Citizen.

MOZAMBIQUE
Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster.

SOUTH AFRICA
Naidoo, Beverley. Chain of Fire.

MIDDLE EAST ("INVENTED" COUNTRY)
Khashoggi, Soheir. Mirage.

CHINA
Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha. Bound Feet and Western Dress.
Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break: A Novel.
Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an nwanted Daughter.
Mah, Adeline Yen. Falling Leaves: The true story of an unwanted Chinese
Daughter.
Min, Anchee. Red Azalea.
Yang, Rae. Spider Eaters: A Memoir.

KOREA
Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes.

THAILAND
Ho, Minfong. Rice Without Rain.

JAPAN
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko’s Daughter.
Mori, Kyoko. One Bird.
Golden, Arthur (?) Memoirs of a Geisha.

PAKISTAN
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind.
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Haveli.

JAPAN/KOREA
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies: A Novel.

HAITI
Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory.
Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of the Bones.

ANTIGUA
Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John.

GUATEMALA
Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rogoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.

IRAN
Rachlin, Nahid. Foreigner.
Rachlin, Nahid. The Heart’s Desire: A Novel.

.......
Any and all suggestions welcome. TIA

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
High School for the Humanities
New York, NY
renadeutsch@worldnet.att.net

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