Postcolonial literature books
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua AchebeShows the arrival of missionaries and colonial government in a Nigerian village, told from inside its community.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean RhysA prequel to Jane Eyre that gives a voice to the Creole wife Bertha in colonial Jamaica.
Season of Migration to the North
al-Ṭayyib ṢāliḥA Sudanese man returns from England and his past catches up with him in his village.
A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. NaipaulA Trinidadian Indian man's lifelong struggle to own a home in a colonial society.
Midnight's Children
Salman RushdieThe story of India's independence and early decades told through children born at the moment of freedom.
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Nervous ConditionsTsitsi Dangarembga - The Famished Road
The Famished RoadBen Okri - Omeros
OmerosDerek Walcott - Disgrace
DisgraceJ. M. Coetzee - The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of LossKiran Desai - Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Fantasia
FantasiaAssia Djebar1997 - The deaths of Hintsa
The deaths of HintsaPremesh Lalu2009 - Decolonizing TheoryDecolonizing TheoryAditya Nigam2020
- Indian Travel Writing in the Age of EmpireIndian Travel Writing in the Age of EmpirePramod K. Nayar2020
- Bridging continents
Bridging continentsNora Glickman2005 - A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of WheatNgũgĩ wa Thiongʼo1967