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Post Colonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.74 — 405,211 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,198 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,227 ratings — published 1981
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 318,863 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,022 ratings — published 1961
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,926 ratings — published 1999
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,779 ratings — published 1978
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 548,655 ratings — published 1899
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 783,368 ratings — published 1998
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 178,297 ratings — published 2006
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 404,433 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,276 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,432 ratings — published 1952
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,987 ratings — published 1980
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,629 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,578 ratings — published 1966
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,538 ratings — published 1950
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,078,633 ratings — published 1967
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,048 ratings — published 1961
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.45 — 54,567 ratings — published 2005
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 171,824 ratings — published 2000
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,726 ratings — published 1924
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1939
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 157,651 ratings — published 1995
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,174 ratings — published 1990
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 390,404 ratings — published 2016
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,093 ratings — published 1987
The Lowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,915 ratings — published 2013
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,519 ratings — published 1979
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,616 ratings — published 2003
Shame (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,999 ratings — published 1983
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,869 ratings — published 1999
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 70,711 ratings — published 1988
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,362 ratings — published 2004
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,011 ratings — published 1994
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,289 ratings — published 1986
A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,474 ratings — published 1969
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,958 ratings — published 2007
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,216 ratings — published 1956
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,695,442 ratings — published 2007
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.28 — 740,913 ratings — published 1982
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,423,357 ratings — published 2003
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 281,045 ratings — published 2003
The Empire Writes Back, Second Edition: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 584 ratings — published 1989
Mister Pip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 23,867 ratings — published 2006
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 258,772 ratings — published 2019
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,734,158 ratings — published 2001
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,587 ratings — published 1967
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,689 ratings — published 1993
The Autobiography of My Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as post-colonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,143 ratings — published 1996
“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.”
― Orientalism
― Orientalism
“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 marks. She is like that, sahib.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
‘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 marks. She is like that, sahib.”
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
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post-colonial-lit, post-colonial-literature, postcolonial, postcolonial-lit, and postcolonial-literature
