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
Half of a Yellow Sun
Nervous Conditions
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
80 books — 29 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
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

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


V.S. Naipaul
It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard. ‘Is Leela self who write that,’ Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.’ It read: NOTICE NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS! ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS! Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.’ That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation ...more
V.S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street

Robert Antoni
I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t you worry about that. Cause I’s a married man now, I got to behave. My name done write.’ He say, ‘Why I going in some other bed when I got this big foam bed to lie in?’ I say, ‘It ain’t the bed it’s who does hot the sheets.’ He say, ‘Well best bring them sheets let we hot them up right now.
Robert Antoni, Blessed Is the Fruit: A Novel

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