I am doing a research project that will require me to read feminist literature from around the world. There is a plethora of feminist writing from women and queer people in northern hemisphere, but I am really trying to build out my sources for feminist texts from other parts of the world. Fiction is VERY welcome, preferably fiction with some darker themes – think Beloved. Nonfiction and critical theory is more than welcome too – it could be a book about the differences between white feminism and intersectional feminism that includes an anticolonialist perspective, for example.
Thanks so much everyone!
by bitingmytail
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The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patricia Melo, fiction from Brazil about femicide.
The Woman on the Windowsill by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, historical non-fiction from Guatemala.
*Nervous Conditions*
Little Rot by Akeaeke Emezi.
It’s about power, sex, religion and hypocrisy. It’s very dark, and very very good. The author has a few other books, and they’re all good, but this one is their best.
– The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua)
– Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis (Uruguay)
– The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende (Chile)
– We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)