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GOOD Books: The Foreign Perspective on Globalization
Everyone is talking about how we have just entered the "global age." But globalization is not a new concept. Ask authors from Liberia, Algeria, South Africa, South America, the French Caribbean, or the Czech Republic, and they will tell you how globalization has affected their countries for centuries.
Here, we highlight novels that are both entertaining and educational. Now that America is on the international scene as a player rather than an owner, we have a lot of catching up to do.
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
by Assia Djebar; translated by Dorothy S. Blair
227 pages. Heinemann. $17.25
Assia Djebar (pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen) grew up in
Playing in the Light: A Novel
By Zoe Wicomb
218 pages. New Press. $15.31
South Africa is no stranger to the complications of colliding races. Set during duri
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
By Paule Marshall
480 pages. Vintage. $11.75
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People is the story of Saul, an American ethno
Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera
By Gloria Anzaldúa
260 pages. Aunt Lute Books. $14.23
Anzaldúa is a Chicana from Texas who writes about the precarious
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
By Marjane Satrapi
153 pages. Pantheon. $13.57
Persepolis, a graphic novel about Satrapi's life in Tehran, is not your
The Glass Room
By Simon Mawer
406 pages. Other Press. $10.85
While The Glass Room at first seems to be about a modern German couple, it is actually about their
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