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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 429,477 ratings — published 1958
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,683 ratings — published 1966
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,339 ratings — published 1981
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,782 ratings — published 1978
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,524 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,489 ratings — published 1961
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,577 ratings — published 2006
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,922 ratings — published 1952
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.43 — 579,446 ratings — published 1899
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,760 ratings — published 1999
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,652 ratings — published 1988
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,918 ratings — published
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.31 — 429,108 ratings — published 2013
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,320 ratings — published 1988
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.79 — 182,228 ratings — published 2000
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,992 ratings — published 1993
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,861 ratings — published 1966
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,488 ratings — published 1980
Lucy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,949 ratings — published 1990
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,425 ratings — published 1994
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,162,201 ratings — published 1967
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 817,996 ratings — published 1998
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,811 ratings — published 1956
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.46 — 433,667 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 152,817 ratings — published 2003
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,981 ratings — published 1988
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.68 — 88,161 ratings — published 1924
The Inheritance of Loss (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,295 ratings — published 2005
Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,280 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.18 — 212,561 ratings — published 1999
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 284,417 ratings — published 2007
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,221 ratings — published 1981
The Namesake (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.02 — 290,483 ratings — published 2003
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,991 ratings — published 1986
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.76 — 598 ratings — published 1989
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,633,883 ratings — published 2003
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,289 ratings — published 1979
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,536 ratings — published 1990
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,635 ratings — published 2008
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.86 — 143,173 ratings — published 1992
Brick Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.46 — 36,625 ratings — published 2003
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.12 — 557,157 ratings — published 2022
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.89 — 40,077 ratings — published 2014
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,404 ratings — published 1995
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,274 ratings — published 2001
A House for Mr Biswas (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,904 ratings — published 1961
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,939 ratings — published 2013
Annie John (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,019 ratings — published 1985
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,353 ratings — published 1967
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonial)
avg rating 4.25 — 843 ratings — published 1989
“Economic development has been central to the ideologies of post-colonial African states.”
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
― African Anarchism: The History of a Movement
“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