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
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Midnight’s Children
The God of Small Things
Alexander McCall Smith
Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.
Alexander McCall Smith, The Double Comfort Safari Club

Although their constitutions called for an Islamic form of government, the word "Muslim" or "Islamic" was just in name. Socially, the Muslim countries resorted to corrupt practices. Economically, they were insolvent, although they had immense natural resources; and politically, they were uncertain. Internationally, they were inactive, existing simply as an isolated, spent force. Individually, they became disruptive and collectively anarchic. ...more
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