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          International Women of Color Fiction

          While searching for a title for a Sociology course's (Racism & Sexism) book essay, I came across this glorious reading list which I promptly poached for a perpetual challenge. 

          AFRICAN WOMEN 
          About Africa(Drew) 1989 
          And They Didn't Die (Ngcobo) 1999 
          Burger's Daughter (Gordimer) 1979 
          Changes: A Love Story (Aidoo) 1991, 1993 
          Double Yoke (Emecheta) c1983,1993 
          Efuru (Nwapa) c1966,1989
          The Expedition To Baobab Tree (Stockenstrom) 1983 
          Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Djebar) c1985,1993 
          A Gap In the Wall (Estivals) c1962,1963
          ✔The Joys Of Motherhood (Emecheta) 1979 
          July's People (Gordimer) 1981
          The Moonlight Bride (Emecheta) c1980, 1983
          My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories By Egyptian Women (Booth) 1991 
          ✔Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga) 1988
          ✔No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Aidoo) 1995 
          None To Accompany Me (Gordimer) 1994
          The Slave Girl (Emecheta) 1977 
          So Long a Letter (Ba) c1981, 1989 
          Something Out There (Gordimer) c1979,1986
          Sometimes When It Rains: Writings By South African Women (Oosthuizen) 1987 
          A Wife For My Son (Ghalem) 1984
          A World Of Strangers (Gordimer) c1958,1981 
          The Wrestling Match (Emecheta) c1980,1983


          ASIAN WOMEN (China, Japan, Korea)
          Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie) 2001
          Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories By Women Writers Of Taiwan (Carver & Chang) 1990
          Black Rain (Ibuse) c1969,1985
          Born Of the Same Roots: Stories Of Modern Chinese Women (Hsu) 1981 
          Bound Feet (Dai) 1988
          Chinese Women Writers: A Collection Of Short Stories By Chinese Women Writers Of the 1920's (Anderson) 1985
          Clay Walls (Ronyoung) c1987,1990 
          Comfort Woman (Keller) 1997 
          Contemporary Women Writers: Hong Kong and Taiwan (Hung) 1990 
          Daughters Of the Red Land (Li) 1995
          The Dragon's Village: An Autobiographical Novel Of Revolutionary China (Chen) c1980, 1982 
          Dream Of the Walled City (Fleischman) 2000
          The Electrical Field (Sakamoto) c1998, 1999 
          The Embriodered Shoes (Xue) 1997
          Face Of a Stranger (Yamaguchi) 1995
          The Floating World (Kadohata) c1989, 1991
          Foreign Bodies (Tan) c1997, 1999
          Fresh Girls and Other Stories (Lau) 1995 
          Frontiers Of Love (Chang) c1956, 1994
          A Girl Like Me and Other Stories (Xi) c1986, 1988
          I Wish I Were a Wolf. The New Voice In Chinese Women's Literature (Kingsbury) 1994
          Japanese Women Writers 20th Century Short Fiction (Lippit & Selden) 199
          Katherine (Min) 1995
          The Language Of Threads (Tsukiyama) 1999
          The Legend Of Fire Horse Woman (Houston) 2003 
          The Long Season Of Rain (Kim) 1996
          The Loom and Other Stories (Sasaki) 1991 
          Love Must Not Be Forgotten (Jie) c1986, 1987 
          Maidenhome (Xiaoqi) 1993
          The Moon Pearl (McCunn) 2000 
          Obasan (Kogawa) c1981, 1982 
          One Half of the Sky: Selection From Contemporary Women Writers Of China(Roberts & Knox) 1987 
          One Hundred and One Ways (Yoshikawa (1999)
          One Hundred Million Hearts (Sakamoto) 2003
          One Thousand Chestnut Trees (Stout) 1998 
          Picture Bride (Uchida) 1987
          Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction On Love and Sex Between Women (Sieber) 2001
          Red Ivy Green Earth Mother (Bei) 1990
          The Rose Colored Dinner: New Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Writers (Liu) 1988 
          Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Yamamoto) 1988
          Stories By Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (Lippit & Selden) 1982 
          The Strangeness Of Beauty (Minatoya) 1999
          This Kind Of Woman: Ten Stories By Japanese Women Writers, 1960-1976 (Tanaka & Hanson) c1982, 1984
          Traces Of Love and Other Stories (Chang) 2000
          Three Daughters Of Madame Liang (Buck) c1969, 1991 
          Under the Phoenix Tree (Dai) 1990
          Unmapped Territories: New Women's Fiction From Japan (Tanaka) 1991 
          The Waiting Years (Enchi) c1971, 1981
          Wayfarer: New Fiction By Korean Women (Fulton & Fulton) 1997 
          White Snake and Other Stories (Yan) 1999
          A Woman Called En (Ohara) 1986 
          Women Of the Silk (Tsukiyama) 1991 
          Words Of Farewell: Stories By Korean Women Writers (Sok-kyong) 1989 
          Year Of Impossible Goodbyes (Choi) 1991

          CARIBBEAN WOMEN 
          ✔Abeng (Cliff) c1984,1985 
          Angel (Collins) 1987
          Annie John (Kincaid) c1983,1985
          At the Bottom Of the River (Kincaid) c1978, 1992
          The Autobiography Of My Mother (Kincaid) c1996,1997 
          Beyond the Limbo Silence (Nunez) 19
          Brown Girl In the Ring (Hopkinson) 1998 
          Cereus Blooms At Night (Mootoo) c1996, 1998 
          Desirada (Conde) 2000
          ✔Dew Breaker (Danticat) 2004
          Dry Land Tourist and Other Stories (Maguire) 1991
          Green Cane Juicy Slotsam: Short Stories By Caribbean Women (Esteves & Paravisini-Gebert) 1992 
          In the Time Of the Butterflies (Alvarez)
          The Land of Look Behind (Cliff) 1985
          A Matter Of Pride and Other Stories (Mohr) 1997 
          Midnight Robber (Hopkinson) 2000 No Telephone To Heaven (Cliff) 1987 
          Praisesong For the Widow (Marshall) 1983 
          Skin Folk (Hopkinson) 2001
          Song Of the Water Saints (Rosario) 2002 
          Sugar Cage (Fowler) 1992
          Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulust Fiction (Hopkinson) 2000

          LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN (Central & South America, Cuba, Puerto Rico)
          The Aguero Sisters (Garcia) 1997
          Bitter Grounds (Benitez) 1997
          Cantando Bajito: Singing Softly (de Monteflores) 1989
          The Coloured Girl In the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers (DoHarris) 1997
          Cruel Fictions, Cruel Realities: Short Stories By Latin American Women Writers (Benner & Leonard) 1998
          Cubana: Contemporary Fiction By Cuban Women (Yanez) 1998 
          Daughter Of Fortune (Allende) 1999
          Days Of Awe (Obejas) 2001 
          Destroy, She Said (Duras) 1970 
          Dreaming in Cuban (Garcia) c1992,1993 
          Eccentric Neighborhoods (Ferre) c1998, 1999 
          Eva Luna (Allende) 1989
          Fire From the Andes: Short Fiction By women From Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru (Benner & Leonard) 1998
          The Honorable Prison (de Jenkins) 1998
          House Of Mist and The Shrouded Woman (Bombal) c1995,1998 
          The House Of Spirits (Allende) c1986,1988
          In the Eye Of the Sun (Soueif) c1992, 1994
          Landscapes Of a New Land: Short Fiction By Latin American Women (Agosin) 1989 The Line Of the Sun (Cofer) 1989
          New Islands and Other Stories (Bombla) c1982, 1988
          One Hundred Years After Tomorrow: Brazilian Women's Fiction In the 20th Century (Sadlier) 1992 
          Open Your Eyes and Soar: Cuban Women Writing Now (Berg) 2003
          Other Fires: Short Fiction By Latin American Women (Manguel) 1986 
          Out Of the Mirrored Garden (Poey) 1996
          Paradise (Castedo) 1990 
          Paula (Allende) 1999 
          Portrait Of Sepia (Allende) 2001
          Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories By Contemporary Puerto Rican Women (Velez) c1988, 1997 
          Scents Of Wood and Silence: Short Stories By Latin American Women Writers (Ross & Miller) 198 
          A Secret Weavers Anthology: Selections From the Secret Weavers Series --- Writing By Latin American Women (Herrera) 1998
          Short Stories By Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (de Zapata) c1986, 1990
          SplintF ,ig Darkness: Latin American Women Writers In Search Of Themselves (Cunningham) 1990 
          A Lil of Too Much Is Enough (Tyau) 19$6
          You Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (Obejas) 1994 
          What Is Secret: Stories By Chilean Women (Agosin) 1995
          When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories By women Writers From Costa Rica and Panama (Levi) 1991

          MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN
          A Balcony Over the Fakihani (Dadr) c1983, 1993 
          Beirut Blues (al-Shaykh) c1992,1995
          Blue Aubergine (al-Tahawy) 2002
          Cry Of the Peacock (Nahai) 1991 
          Dear Shameless Death (Tekin) 2001 
          Flight Against Time (Nasrallah) 1987 
          The Fortune Catcher (Pari) 1997
          Foreigner (Rachlin) c1978, 1999 
          From a Sealed Room (Kadish) 1998
          God Dies By the Nile (el-Saadawi) 1985
          I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops (al-Shaykh) 1998
          In a Voice Of Their Own: A Collection Of Stories By Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution Of 1979 (Lewis & Yazdanfar) 1996
          In the Eye Of the Sun (Soueif) 1992, 1994 
          The Map Of Love (Soueif) 1999
          Moonlight On the Avenue Of Faith (Nahia) 1999 
          Only In London (al-Shaykh) 2001
          The Open Door (al-Zayyat) c1960,2000 
          The Red Tent (Diamant) 1997
          A Runaway Wife (A1 Hijaz) 2004
          A Sister To Scheherazade (Djebar) c1987, 1993
          Sitt Marie Rose (Adnan) c1982,1992
          The Story of Zahra (al-Shaykh) c1986, 1995 
          Veils: Short Stories (Rachlin) 1992
          Voices Of Change: Short Stories By Saudi Arabian Women Writers (Bagader, Hweinrichsdorff, Akers) 1998
          Walnut Sapling On Masih's Grave and Other Stories By Iranian Women (Green & Yazdanfar) 1993
          Welcome To Heavenly Heights (Miller) 2003
          ✔Woman At Point Zero (el-Saadawi) c1975, 1983
          Women Without Men: A Novel Of Modern Iran (Parsipur) 1994
          NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN OF COLOR (not U.S).--- Canada, Mexico 
          Here's To You, Jesusa! (Poniatowska) 2001
          The Law Of Love (Esquivel) 1995
          Like Water For Chocolat (Esquivel) 1989
          AThe Mixquiahuala Letters (Castillo) c1986, 1992 
          Monkey Beach (Robinson) 2000
          A Necklace Of Words: Short Fiction By Mexican Women (Agosin) 199
          No One Will See Me Cry (Rivera-Garza) 2003
          Tear this Heart Out (Mastretta (1997)
          Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend Of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Wallis) 19 
          Who Would Have Thought It? (de Burton) 1995
          Women With Big Eyes (Mastretta) 1997

          PACIFIC ISLAND WOMEN
          Ba' jtan: An Anthology Of Filipina and Filipina American Writers (Carbo & Tabios) 2000
          Blu's Hanging (Yamanaka) c1997,2001
          Dream Jungle (Hagerdorn) 2003
          Filipina I (Women Writers in Media Now) 1984 
          Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila (Villaneuva) 1991 
          Going Home To a Landscape: Writings By Filipinas (Villanueva & Cerenio) 2003 
          The Kissing: A Collection Of Short Stories (Bobis) 2001
          The Last Time I Saw Mother (Chai) 1995
          The Lowest Flame Before Nothing (Stapleton) 1998 
          Magdalena (Brainard) 2002
          Shark Dialogues (Davenport) 1995 
          Song of the Exile (Davenport) 1999 
          Songs Of Ourselves: Writings By Filipino Women In English (Manlapaz) 1994 
          State Of War (Rosca) c1988, 1990
          Talking to the Dead and Other Stories (Watanabe) 1992
          Twelve Philippine Women Writers (Lapena-Bonificio) c1994,1995 
          Where We Once Belonged (Figiel) c1996,1999
          White Turtle (Bobis) 1999
          Woman With Horns and Other Stories (Manguerra-Brainard) 1998

          SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMEN 
          Anita and Me (Syal) 1996
          Arranged Marriage (Divakaruni) 1995
          The Binding Vine (Deshpande) c1992, 2000
          Birthday Deathday and Other Stories (Perera) c1974, 1985 
          Brick Lane (Ali) 2003
          Clear Light Of Day (Desai) 1980 
          The Coffin Tree (Law-Yone) 1983 
          The Crooked Line (Chughtai) 1995 
          The Crow Eaters (Sidhwa) c1978, 1992 
          Desirable Daughters (Mukherjee) 2002 
          Fasting, Feasting (Desai) 1999
          Flash House (Liu) 2003
          For Matrimonial Purposes (Daswani) 2003 
          Getting There (Padmanabhan) 2000
          The Glassblower's Breath (Gupta) 1993 
          The God Of Small Things (Roy) 1997 
          Goodbye, Saigon(Vida) 1994
          Heat and Dust (Jhabvala) c1975,1987 
          Holder Of the World (Mukherjee) 1993 
          Hoops Of Fire: Fifty Years Of Fiction By Pakistani Women (Hussein) 1999 
          Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Stories (Padmanabhan) 1998
          ✔Interpreter Of Maladies (Lahiri) 1999 
          Jasmine (Mukherjee) c1989,1993 
          Junglee Girl (Kamani) 1995 
          Kleptomania: Ten Stories (Padmanabhan) 2004 
          Lajja/Shame (Nasrin) 1994
          Leave It To Me (Mukherjee) 1997
          The Lioness In Boom: Modern Thai Fiction About Women (Kepner) 1996 
          Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (Syal) 1999
          A Matter Of Time (Deshpande) 1996
          May You Be the Mother Of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women Of India (Bumiller) 1990 
          Memories Of a Pure Spring (Huong) 2000
          Memories Of Rain (Gupta) 1992 
          Miniplanner (Dawesar) 2000
          The Mistress Of Spice (Divakaruni) 1997 
          Monkey Bridge (Cao) 1997
          The Namesake (Lahiri) 2003
          Of Customs and Excise: Short Fiction (Mara) 1991 
          The Perfect Woman: Short Stories (Sharma) 1994 
          Raj (Mehta) c1989, 1991
          A River Sutra (Mehta) 19993 
          Sare Mare (Walker) 1987 
          Sister Of My Heart (Divakaruni) c1999, 2000 
          A Stronger Climate (Jhabvala)1968,1985 
          Sultana's Dream and Selections From the Secluded Ones (Hosain) 1988 
          Sunlight On a Broken Column (Hosain) c1961,1989
          To Do Something Beautiful (Rhoini) 1990
          Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories By Women Writers Of India (Kali for Women) c1986,1990 
          The Vine Of Desire (Divakaruru) 2002

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