Post Colonialism

Post-colonialist literature analyzes and responds to the cultural and political legacies of colonialism and imperialism through fiction and nonfiction.

Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Discourse on Colonialism
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Heart of Darkness
The Location of Culture
Culture and Imperialism
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Wide Sargasso Sea
Midnight’s Children
The Colonizer and the Colonized
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
The God of Small Things
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonDecolonising the University by Gurminder K. BhambraDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Decolonize Art and Academy
42 books — 7 voters
Sea People by Christina ThompsonCook  by Nicholas ThomasWe, the Navigators by David        LewisPacific Worlds by Matt K. MatsudaThe Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Pacific Non-Fiction
169 books — 10 voters

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
But when did this anger take root? When snakes first appeared on the national scene? When water in the bowels of the earth turned bitter? Or when he visited America and failed to land an interview with Global Network News on its famous program Meet the Global Mighty? It is said that when he was told that he could not be granted even a minute on the air, he could hardly believe his ears or even understand what they were talking about, knowing that in his country he was always on TV; his every mom ...more
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow

Tayeb Salih
Has not the country become independent? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

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