Postcolonialism


Orientalism
The Wretched of the Earth
Black Skin, White Masks
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Discourse on Colonialism
Culture and Imperialism
The Location of Culture
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
Wide Sargasso Sea
Heart of Darkness
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Midnight’s Children
The Colonizer and the Colonized
The God of Small Things
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Collective guilt, the damaging impact of cultural appropriation, our servility to amorphous power structures, the primacy of identity politics; all of these concepts and more are now uncritically accepted by many of those in positions of authority. When politicians use phrases such as 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism', for instance, they are deploying the language of Critical Race Theory without necessarily understanding the full implications of the ideas behind the buzzwords. They are the ...more
Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

Jamaica Kincaid
What I see is the millions of people, of whom I am just one, made orphans: no motherland, no fatherland, no gods, no mounds of earth for holy ground, no excess of love which might lead to the things that an excess of love sometimes brings, and worst and most painful of all, no tongue. (For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime? And what can that really mean? For the language of the criminal can contain o ...more
Jamaica Kincaid

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