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
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Location of Culture
Culture and Imperialism
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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
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
170 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
42 books — 7 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

Jamaica Kincaid
and from afar you watch as we do to ourselves the very things you used to do to us.
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

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