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)
Heart of Darkness
The Location of Culture
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Wide Sargasso Sea
Culture and Imperialism
Midnight’s Children
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
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
167 books — 10 voters
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
41 books — 6 voters

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

Bruce Gilley
It is also difficult to maintain that post-colonial Africa hasn’t seen violence and suffering. The Africans who- oh wry irony- step into rickety boats in order to find a safe haven in the Europe of the former colonial powers.
Bruce Gilley

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