Post Colonial


Americanah
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Lowland
An Untamed State
We Need New Names
Open City
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
River of Smoke
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
In the Light of What We Know
Zoo City
Tigerman
The Long Song
The Frangipani Hotel
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Wide Sargasso Sea
The God of Small Things
Midnight’s Children
The Wretched of the Earth
Disgrace
Orientalism
Heart of Darkness
The Poisonwood Bible
Nervous Conditions
Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
Black Skin, White Masks
Waiting for the Barbarians
Season of Migration to the North
Brick Lane by Monica AliWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithSmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif KureishiThe Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Postcolonial Britain
81 books — 29 voters

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFusion of Reality by K VariaInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Best Diasporic Fiction
20 books — 17 voters
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai SmithResearch As Resistance by Leslie BrownDecolonizing Ukraine by Greta Lynn UehlingColoniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America by Aníbal QuijanoHybrid Cultures by Néstor García Canclini
Decoloniality
89 books — 12 voters


Robert Antoni
“ I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know. ...more ”
― Robert Antoni, Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel

Edward W. Said
“ I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends. ...more ”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

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