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Postcolonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 112 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,186 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 109,435 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,637 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,504 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,561 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,618 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,896 ratings — published 1952
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,652 ratings — published 2006
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 566,515 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 119,278 ratings — published 1999
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,366 ratings — published 1950
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,653 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,272 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,309 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 177,487 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,882 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,380 ratings — published 1966
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,392 ratings — published 1994
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,210 ratings — published 1990
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,440 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,125,513 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 801,989 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,211 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,146 ratings — published 2016
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,021 ratings — published 1981
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 146,960 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,682 ratings — published 1988
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,994 ratings — published 2007
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 286,549 ratings — published 2003
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,910 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,442 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 208,447 ratings — published 1999
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 595 ratings — published 1989
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,768 ratings — published 1924
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,718 ratings — published 1986
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,370 ratings — published 1990
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,546,580 ratings — published 2003
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,980 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 506,029 ratings — published 2022
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 161,991 ratings — published 1995
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,771 ratings — published 2008
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,248 ratings — published 2001
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,580 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,061 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,713 ratings — published 2014
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,648 ratings — published 2013
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 834 ratings — published 1989
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 92,376 ratings — published 2005
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,145 ratings — published 1987
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation (Broschiert)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,154 ratings — published 1985
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally." Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from above_ from the experience and perspective of those who suffer from the consequences of _globalization from above_, cosmopolitanism differs, according to Mignolo, form these two types of globalization. Mignolo defines globalization as 'a set of designs to manage the world,' and cosmopolitanism as 'a set of projects toward planetary conviviality”
― Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
― Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
“Economic development has been central to the ideologies of post-colonial African states.”
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
