Mod post: theme suggestions
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readingthepastPlease suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
Re: Colonial-era Africa
Date: 2009-06-03 01:09 am (UTC)What about Maryse Condé's Segu</> and Children of Segu? (Mali and other parts of West Africa.
The Healers - AyiKwei Armah (Ghana and the Asant Empire mid 1800's)
The African - Harold Courlander (the novel Alex Haley plagerized for parts of Roots
The Dahomeyan - Frank Yerby (who also plagerized for this novel parts of Courlander's African.
Whitethorn - Bryce Courtenay (Boer War)
There are so many set in Southern Africa in particular; for instance Zulu Dawn and Zulu - Cy Endfield, the first is both a novel and a movie.
Love, C.