INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION
TSLP 833: Winter 1997
Professor: Mary Lou McCloskey, Ph.D.
Appendix D: Suggested Fiction/Non-Fiction/Authors for Culture Study
(Just a sampling. Most books listed are available in
the GSU library.)
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke: Tales Grotesque and Curious, many others (Japanese)
Anaya, Rudolfo: Bless Me, Ultima and others (YA, Mexican-American, SW US
Border).
Ba, Maw: So logadetter, others (Burmese).
B"ll, Heinrich: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (German)
Chen, Shu-Jen: The True Story of Ah Q (Chinese - P.R.C.)
Cisneros, Sandra: House on Mango Street; Woman Hollering Creek, others
(Mexican-American, Chicago).
Conde, Maryse: Hermakhnon, others (Guadeloupe).
Doerr, Harriet: Stones for Ibarra (European-American couple in rural Mexico)
Esquivel, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate; The Law of Love. (Mexican).
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death
Foretold and
many others (Colombian, other Central and South American Cultures).
Guterson, Davod: Snow Falling on Cedars (Japanese-Americans in US Northwest).
Hijuelos, Oscar: Our House in the Lost World, Mambo Kings, and many others
(Cuban).
Hunyh, Quang Nhuong: The Land I Lost (JU; Vietnamese central highlands).
Kawabata, Yasunari: The Izu Dancer (Japanese).
Kuzwayo, Ellen: Call Me Woman (African South African).
Lik, Ang: The Butcher's Wife. (Chinese - P.R.C.)
Lord, Bette Bao: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, and many
others. (JU;Chinese-US Immigrant fictionalizes year of her arrival at age
8).
Mafouz, Maghib: Many novels (Egyptian).
Mas, Keris: Blood and Tears (Malaysian).
Menchu, Rigoberta: I, Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemalan).
Malan, Rian: My Traitor's Heart. (Descendant of an originator explores
Apartheid).
Kingston, Maxine Hong: Woman Warrior, others (Chinese, Chinese-American).
Mishima, Yukio: Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and many others (Japanese).
Morgan, Sally: My Place (Australian Aborigine/Immigrant).
Mukergee, Bharati: Jasmine, many others (Asian Indian).
Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom. (South African autobiography).
Rodriguez, Richard: Hunger of Memory (Mexican-American, California).
Tan, Amy: Joy Luck Club; Kitchen God's Wife, many others (Chinese-American).
Tiongo, Ngugi Wa: The River Between, A Grain of Wheat (Kenyan)
Yep, Laurence: Hiroshima: a Novella, and many others. (JU; Chinese-American).