We are celebrating Survival Stories this 2021: #SurvivalStories2021.
This includes featuring stories of marginalized and indigenous communities whose existence were/are nearly wiped out by colonizers, tyrants, oppressors. The reading challenge is meant to decolonize our bookshelves, and we hope that you will join us this year. Essentially, we hope to feature books that fit any of the following criteria:
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Postcolonial literature and/or [pre/post] revolutionary stories
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Stories by indigenous / first-nation peoples / people of colour
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Narratives of survival and healing, exile and migration
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Books written or illustrated by people who have been colonized, oppressed, marginalized
Similar to what I have done for our #WomenReadWomen2019, I am devoting an entire page to document my progress throughout the year.
Please do take note that this list does not consist of all the books I read this year. To see that, please visit my Goodreads page. This table is meant to keep track of the books I featured here in GatheringBooks that fit our overarching theme of survival stories – decolonizing our bookshelves – this 2021.
I will constantly be updating this table throughout the year, as and when new books fall into my hands and featured here for our #SurvivalStories2021 reading theme.
| # |
Author / Illustrator |
# |
Book Title |
# |
Country |
# |
Language
(Bilingual/ Translated from) |
| 1 |
Tami Charles (POC) |
1 |
All Because You Matter |
1 |
USA |
1 |
English – with some Tagalog words |
| Bryan Collier (POC) |
| 2 |
Christian Robinson (POC) |
2 |
You Matter |
|
English (neither translated nor bilingual) |
| 3 |
Miranda Paul (Editor) |
3 |
Thanku: Poems Of Gratitude |
| Marlena Myles (Native American) |
| 4 |
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow (POC) |
4 |
Your Name Is A Song |
| 5 |
Gene Barretta |
5 |
The Secret Garden Of George Washington Carver |
| Frank Morrison (POC) |
| 6 |
Grace Byers |
6 |
I Am Enough |
| Keturah A. Bobo |
7 |
I Believe I Can |
| 7 |
Jen Corace |
8 |
Small World |
| 8 |
Caren Stelson |
9 |
A Bowl Full Of Peace |
| 9 |
Carole Boston Weatherford |
10 |
Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You |
| James E. Ransome |
| 10 |
Angela Johnson (POC) |
11 |
A Girl Like Me |
| Nina Crews (POC) |
| 11 |
Andrea Beaty |
12 |
One Girl |
| Dow Phumiruk (Thai American) |
2 |
Thailand |
| 12 |
Dalai Lama |
13 |
The Seed of Compassion |
3 |
Tibet Autonomous Region |
| Bao Luu |
4 |
Vietnam |
| 13 |
Rita Joe (Whycocomagh First Nation) |
14 |
I Lost My Talk |
5 |
Canada |
| Pauline Young (Mi’kmaq First Nation) |
| 14 |
15 |
I’m Finding My Talk |
| Rebecca Thomas (Mi’kmaq First Nation |
|
Ishta Mercurio (raised by Irish-German-Italian-American father and a Polish-American-Filipino mother) |
|
Small World |
| 15 |
Yamile Saied Mendez (born and raised in Argentina; now based in US) |
16 |
Where Are You From? |
6 |
Argentina |
| Jaime Kim (born and raised in South Korea; now based in US) |
7 |
South Korea |
|
Luisa Uribe |
|
Your Name Is A Song |
8 |
Colombia |
|
Akira Kusaka |
|
A Bowl Full Of Peace |
9 |
Japan |
| 16 |
Shokoofeh Azar (Iranian based in Australia) |
17 |
The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree |
10 |
Iran |
2 |
Persian (translated) |
| 17 |
Judith Ridge (editor) with contributions by POC and indigenous peoples such as Ambelin Kwaymullina and Shaun Tan |
18 |
The Book That Made Me: A Collection of 32 Personal Stories |
11 |
Australia |
|
English (neither translated nor bilingual) |
| 18 |
Marguerite Abouet (now based in France) translated by Helge Dascher |
19 |
Aya De Yopougon |
12 |
Abidjan – Côte d’Ivoire |
|
French (translated) |
| Clément Oubrerie |
13 |
France |
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