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Postcolonialism Books
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,904 ratings — published 1978
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,192 ratings — published 1961
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,543 ratings — published 1952
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.74 — 406,255 ratings — published 1958
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,612 ratings — published 1950
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,703 ratings — published 1993
The Location of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,347 ratings — published 1994
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 104,606 ratings — published 1966
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,220 ratings — published 2001
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 550,081 ratings — published 1899
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.99 — 531 ratings — published 1999
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 131,510 ratings — published 1981
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,939 ratings — published 1957
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 319,776 ratings — published 1997
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 32,742 ratings — published 1966
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,230 ratings — published 1999
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.88 — 863 ratings — published 2000
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation (Broschiert)
by (shelved 13 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,058 ratings — published 1985
In other worlds (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 327 ratings — published 1987
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,747 ratings — published 1988
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.02 — 139 ratings — published 2001
Colonialism / Postcolonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.89 — 618 ratings — published 1998
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,052 ratings — published 1983
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,803 ratings — published 1981
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 179,149 ratings — published 2006
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,696 ratings — published 1971
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,102 ratings — published 1980
A Dying Colonialism (Fanon, Frantz)
by (shelved 9 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,518 ratings — published 1959
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (New Accents)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.75 — 584 ratings — published 1989
Beginning Postcolonialism (Beginnings)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.79 — 280 ratings — published 2000
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.25 — 820 ratings — published 1989
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,383 ratings — published 1988
Foe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.42 — 12,330 ratings — published 1986
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 784,972 ratings — published 1998
Postcolonial Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.77 — 265 ratings — published
The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.80 — 284 ratings — published 1993
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,014 ratings — published 2003
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,082,317 ratings — published 1967
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 606 ratings — published 1965
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 211 ratings — published 2013
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,051 ratings — published 1964
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,229 ratings — published 1998
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,919 ratings — published 1924
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,976 ratings — published 1971
The White Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.77 — 201,003 ratings — published 2008
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,312 ratings — published 1938
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,290 ratings — published 1968
The Post-Colonial Critic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 120 ratings — published 1990
On the Postcolony (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.09 — 345 ratings — published 2001
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as postcolonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 392,343 ratings — published 2016
“Mauritian Giving is when you give something great to someone who doesn't really deserve it. Well, Scottish Giving is when the gift is so much greater than the recipient deserves that it dignifies the receiver.”
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“Everybody was reading newspapers and magazines. There was unrest in North Africa.
Did these interminable discussions during which points of view concurred or clashed, complemented each other or were vanquished, determine the aspect of the New Africa?
The assimilationist dream of the colonist drew into its crucible our mode of thought and way of life. The sun helmet worn over the natural protection of our kinky hair, smoke-filled pipe in the mouth, white shorts just above the calves, very short dresses displaying shapely legs: a whole generation suddenly became aware of the ridiculous situation festering in our midst.”
― So Long a Letter
Did these interminable discussions during which points of view concurred or clashed, complemented each other or were vanquished, determine the aspect of the New Africa?
The assimilationist dream of the colonist drew into its crucible our mode of thought and way of life. The sun helmet worn over the natural protection of our kinky hair, smoke-filled pipe in the mouth, white shorts just above the calves, very short dresses displaying shapely legs: a whole generation suddenly became aware of the ridiculous situation festering in our midst.”
― So Long a Letter
