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Postcolonial Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,990 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 107,406 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,248 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,819 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,904 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,649 ratings — published 1961
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,391 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,307 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,224 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,643 ratings — published 1999
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,066 ratings — published 1950
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,133 ratings — published 1988
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,129 ratings — published 2013
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 175,512 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,822 ratings — published 1993
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,650 ratings — published 1988
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,709 ratings — published 1966
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,843 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,372 ratings — published 1994
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,965 ratings — published 1980
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,108,199 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.11 — 795,430 ratings — published 1998
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,613 ratings — published 2016
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,859 ratings — published 1956
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,983 ratings — published 1988
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 284,587 ratings — published 2003
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,891 ratings — published 2003
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,004 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 206,801 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 279,125 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,940 ratings — published 1981
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 56,093 ratings — published 2005
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 590 ratings — published 1989
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,056 ratings — published 1924
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,314 ratings — published 1990
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,916 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,564 ratings — published 1986
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 478,639 ratings — published 2022
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 160,417 ratings — published 1995
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,207 ratings — published 2008
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 139,570 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 35,815 ratings — published 2003
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,184 ratings — published 2014
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,430 ratings — published 2013
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,239 ratings — published 2001
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,821 ratings — published 1979
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.00 — 538 ratings — published 1999
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.78 — 91,293 ratings — published 2005
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 881 ratings — published 2000
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.98 — 492,619 ratings — published 1987
“In our resistance to the business mentality, we are still Spanish, stubbornly Spanish. Also, we have not stopped being Catholic, nor have we stopped being romantic, and we cannot conceive of private life without love, nor of public life without chivalry, or of our children’s education without ideals.
If you want to be our friends, you will have to accept us as we are. Do not attempt to remodel us after your image. Mechanical civilization, material progress, industrial techniques, wealth, comfort, hobbies—all these figure in our programs of work and enjoyment of life. But, for us, the essence of human life does not lie in such things.”
― The Shark and the Sardines
If you want to be our friends, you will have to accept us as we are. Do not attempt to remodel us after your image. Mechanical civilization, material progress, industrial techniques, wealth, comfort, hobbies—all these figure in our programs of work and enjoyment of life. But, for us, the essence of human life does not lie in such things.”
― The Shark and the Sardines
“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally." Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from above_ from the experience and perspective of those who suffer from the consequences of _globalization from above_, cosmopolitanism differs, according to Mignolo, form these two types of globalization. Mignolo defines globalization as 'a set of designs to manage the world,' and cosmopolitanism as 'a set of projects toward planetary conviviality”
― Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
― Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World
