Expanding Horizons

Expanding Horizons

I’ve stumbled across the Expanding Horizons challenge today and thought it was a wonderful idea. Truth is, I don’t read enough authors of ethnicities other than my own (or, rather, American/English authors - I haven’t read a book in french in ages!).

There are two ways to approach this challenge. Either read four books by authors in one of the six categories (you can read more than one category, but you must read four books; not two books in one category and two in another) OR read six books, one from each of the six categories. The categories are:

1. African/African-American
2. Asian/Asian-American (This is not just East Asian — Chinese, Korean and Japanese — but also Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and the Central Asian -Stans.)
3. Hispanic/Latin American
4. Indian/Indian-American (Again, books by Indian authors; not books by white authors set in India.)
5. Middle Eastern (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Turkey…)
6. Native Peoples (Can include Native American, Inuit, Polynesian –Maori, Samoan, etc — Siberian natives and Australian Aborigines.)

I’ve chosen African/African-American Literature:
- The Living is Easy by Dorothy West.
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat.

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12/14/2007 | Challenges, Expanding Horizons | 1 Comment

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