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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,090 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,864 ratings — published 1966
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 340,128 ratings — published 1997
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,253 ratings — published 1981
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,650 ratings — published 2006
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,842 ratings — published 1899
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,180 ratings — published 1988
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,746 ratings — published 1961
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,057 ratings — published 2013
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,470 ratings — published 1952
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.47 — 426,153 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,349 ratings — published 2003
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,033 ratings — published 1980
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,641 ratings — published 1990
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,123 ratings — published 1981
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,842 ratings — published 1988
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 86,192 ratings — published 2007
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,248 ratings — published 1978
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,202 ratings — published 1966
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,255 ratings — published 1999
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,655 ratings — published 1985
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,471 ratings — published 1956
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 180,181 ratings — published 2000
The Buddha of Suburbia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 21,701 ratings — published 1990
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 288,848 ratings — published 2003
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,381 ratings — published 2008
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,764 ratings — published 1964
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,728 ratings — published 1979
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,670 ratings — published 1950
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,439 ratings — published 1990
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,888 ratings — published 1987
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,962 ratings — published 2018
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,598,874 ratings — published 2003
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 684,815 ratings — published 2017
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,203 ratings — published 1988
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 250,302 ratings — published 1981
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,205 ratings — published 1967
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,607 ratings — published 1924
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,884 ratings — published 1991
Death and the King's Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,614 ratings — published 1975
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,755 ratings — published 1961
The Dew Breaker (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,531 ratings — published 2004
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.47 — 57,746 ratings — published 2005
Voyage in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,388 ratings — published 1934
The Dark Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,687 ratings — published 1953
July's People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.51 — 8,534 ratings — published 1981
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,879 ratings — published 1986
Jasmine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.47 — 4,018 ratings — published 1989
Translations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,737 ratings — published 1981
No Telephone to Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as postcolonial-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,438 ratings — published 1987
“The stories surrounding eating durians remind us that literature should incorporate low culture, bringing it closer to lived reality. These legends come not from the pens of the elite, but are assembled from the words of the masses, both written and spoken, passed from one person to another—the only way to create a text this deep and compelling.”
― Durians Are Not the Only Fruit
― Durians Are Not the Only Fruit
“My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of the day
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land