Postcolonialism

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14 participants (34 books)

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Join me in reading postcolonial literature and theory.

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Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

504 pages • paperback • 1940

fiction classics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • paperback • 2016

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benedict Anderson

224 pages • paperback • 1983

nonfiction history politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Trinh T. Minh-ha

184 pages • paperback • 1989

nonfiction feminism race challenging informative slow-paced
'being Alive Well': Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being by Naomi Adelson

'being Alive Well': Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being

Anthropological Horizons

Naomi Adelson

160 pages • paperback

nonfiction health sociology informative medium-paced
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place by Nathalie Kermoal, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez

Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place

Nathalie Kermoal, Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez

240 pages • 2016

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist

"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Sven Lindqvist

179 pages • paperback • 1992

nonfiction history travel challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Out of Place by Edward W. Said

Out of Place

Edward W. Said

295 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction autobiography memoir reflective slow-paced
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

This Earth of Mankind

Tetralogi Buru #1

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

368 pages • paperback • 1980

fiction historical literary romance emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

433 pages • hardcover • 2006

fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced