Postcolonialism


Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Discourse on Colonialism
Culture and Imperialism
The Location of Culture
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Wide Sargasso Sea
Heart of Darkness
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Midnight’s Children
The God of Small Things
Season of Migration to the North
Zadie Smith
And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Jamaica Kincaid
What I see is the millions of people, of whom I am just one, made orphans: no motherland, no fatherland, no gods, no mounds of earth for holy ground, no excess of love which might lead to the things that an excess of love sometimes brings, and worst and most painful of all, no tongue. (For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime? And what can that really mean? For the language of the criminal can contain o ...more
Jamaica Kincaid

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