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
Midnight’s Children
The God of Small Things
The Wretched of the Earth
Disgrace
Orientalism
Heart of Darkness
The Poisonwood Bible
Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
Nervous Conditions
Black Skin, White Masks
Waiting for the Barbarians
Season of Migration to the North
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
84 books — 11 voters

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
78 books — 28 voters
Binti by Nnedi OkoraforMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaExile's End by Carolyn Ives GilmanWild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemoreA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Post-Colonial Speculative Fiction
25 books — 7 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


Maryse Condé
There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?
Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history. ...more
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

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