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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,475 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,683 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,339 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,782 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,524 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,488 ratings — published 1961
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,577 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,922 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,446 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,760 ratings — published 1999
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,652 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,918 ratings — published
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,108 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,320 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 182,228 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,992 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,861 ratings — published 1966
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,488 ratings — published 1980
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,949 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,425 ratings — published 1994
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,201 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,996 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,811 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,667 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,817 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,981 ratings — published 1988
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 88,161 ratings — published 1924
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,295 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,280 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,561 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,417 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,221 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,483 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,991 ratings — published 1986
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 598 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,633,883 ratings — published 2003
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,289 ratings — published 1979
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,536 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,635 ratings — published 2008
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 143,173 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,625 ratings — published 2003
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 557,157 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 40,076 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,404 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,274 ratings — published 2001
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,904 ratings — published 1961
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,939 ratings — published 2013
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,019 ratings — published 1985
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,353 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 843 ratings — published 1989
“Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, its homogenization of diverse social oppression; fourth, its simplification of the complexity and paradox of being privileged and unprivileged; and fifth its ruling out of intersectional space of diverse forms of oppression in reality.”
― 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
“Greening in the epoch of biodiversity dwindle is a vestigial ritual.”
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