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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,885 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,650 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,742 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,501 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,633 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,052 ratings — published 1961
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,060 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,668 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 576,335 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,926 ratings — published 1999
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,383 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,784 ratings — published
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,969 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,050 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 181,049 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,972 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,494 ratings — published 1966
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,235 ratings — published 1980
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,760 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,416 ratings — published 1994
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,153,677 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 814,220 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,582 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 429,668 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,453 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,657 ratings — published 1988
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,839 ratings — published 1924
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,005 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,045 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 211,759 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,667 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,158 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 289,582 ratings — published 2003
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 599 ratings — published 1989
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,929 ratings — published 1986
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,615,930 ratings — published 2003
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,222 ratings — published 1979
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,485 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,941 ratings — published 2008
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 142,655 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,506 ratings — published 2003
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 545,895 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,662 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 165,319 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,270 ratings — published 2001
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,825 ratings — published 1961
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,867 ratings — published 2013
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,270 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 843 ratings — published 1989
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 93,900 ratings — published 2005
“Philosophy of Bread
To Lenin and Iqbal:
The East treats me as a second class citizen, the West as a third class citizen still,
life is mired in fees, rents and unending bills.
New century’s children keep on breeding, farms get smaller and farmers poorer, it’s the bankruptcy mills,
bread lines get longer, the pestilence kills
whilst the few eat money and honey,
And God laughs at the future.”
― Postcolonial Freedom:
To Lenin and Iqbal:
The East treats me as a second class citizen, the West as a third class citizen still,
life is mired in fees, rents and unending bills.
New century’s children keep on breeding, farms get smaller and farmers poorer, it’s the bankruptcy mills,
bread lines get longer, the pestilence kills
whilst the few eat money and honey,
And God laughs at the future.”
― Postcolonial Freedom:
“Prospero, you are the master of illusion.
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(Lied about the world, lied about me)
That you have ended by imposing on me
An image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
That s the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
And I know myself as well.”
― A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(Lied about the world, lied about me)
That you have ended by imposing on me
An image of myself.
Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
That s the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
And I know myself as well.”
― A Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest;' Adaptation for a Black Theatre