Post Colonialism

Post-colonialist literature analyzes and responds to the cultural and political legacies of colonialism and imperialism through fiction and nonfiction.

Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Discourse on Colonialism
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Heart of Darkness
Culture and Imperialism
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Location of Culture
Midnight’s Children
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonDecolonising the University by Gurminder K. BhambraDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Decolonize Art and Academy
42 books — 7 voters
Sea People by Christina ThompsonCook  by Nicholas ThomasWe, the Navigators by David        LewisPacific Worlds by Matt K. MatsudaThe Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Pacific Non-Fiction
169 books — 10 voters

Paul Bowles
But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction. One could not even give up hope. The wind would blow, the sand would settle, and in some as yet unforeseen manner time would bring about a change which could only be terrifying, since it would not be a continuation of the present.
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Tayeb Salih
Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's. ...more
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

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