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This is a list of Postcolonialism fiction and non-fiction. For additional context, see postcolonial literature
Fiction
| Author | Nationality | Title | Year | Geographic/Cultural Focus | Original Language | ISBN(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinua Achebe | Nigerian | Things Fall Apart | 1958 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigerian | Half of a Yellow Sun | 2006 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Ama Ata Aidoo | Ghanaian | Our Sister Killjoy | 1977 | Africa, Ghana | English | |
| Mariama Ba | Senegalese | So Long a Letter (Une si longue lettre) | 1981 | Africa, Senegal | French | |
| Giannina Braschi | Puerto Rican | Yo-Yo Boing! | 1998 | Americas, United States, Puerto Rico | English, Spanish, Spanglish | |
| Giannina Braschi | Puerto Rican | United States of Banana | 2011 | Americas, United States, Puerto Rico | English | |
| J.M. Coetzee | South African, Australian | Disgrace | 1999 | Africa, Cape Town | English | |
| Joseph Conrad | Polish | Heart of Darkness | 1899 | Africa, Congo | English | |
| Edwidge Danticat | Haitian-American | Breath, Eyes, Memory | 1994 | Americas, United States; Caribbean Islands, Haiti | English | |
| Edwidge Danticat | Haitian-American | The Farming of Bones | 1998 | Americas, Caribbean Islands, Dominican Republic, Haiti | English | |
| Edwidge Danticat | Haitian-American | The Dew Breaker | 2004 | Americas, United States; Haiti | English | |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | In the Ditch | 1972 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | Second-Class Citizen | 1974 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | The Joys of Motherhood | 1979 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Buchi Emecheta | Nigerian | Head Above Water | 1986 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Circle of Reason | 1986 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Shadow Lines | 1988 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Calcutta Chromosome | 1995 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Glass Palace | 2000 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | The Hungry Tide | 2004 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | Sea of Poppies | 2008 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | River of Smoke | 2011 | Asia, India | English | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Indian | Flood of Fire | 2012 | Asia, India | English | |
| Mohsin Hamid | Pakistani-British | Moth Smoke | 2000 | Asia, Pakistan | English | |
| Mohsin Hamid | Pakistani-British | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | 2007 | Asia, Pakistan | English | |
| Mohsin Hamid | Pakistani-British | Exit West | 2017 | Asia, Pakistan | English | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Antiguan-American | Lucy (novel) | 1990 | Americas, United States; West Indies | English | |
| Hanif Kureishi | Pakistani-English | The Buddha of Suburbia | 1990 | Europe, United Kingdom; India | English | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | American | Interpreter of Maladies | 1999 | Americas, United States; India | English | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | American | The Namesake | 2003 | Americas, United States; India | English | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | American | The Lowland | 2013 | Americas, United States; India | English | |
| Doris Lessing | British | The Grass is Singing | 1950 | Europe, United Kingdom; Africa, Rhodesia | English | |
| Ben Okri | Nigerian | The Famished Road | 1991 | Europe, United Kingdom; Africa | English | |
| Jean Rhys | Dominican | Wide Sargasso Sea | 1966 | Americas, Caribbean island, Jamaica | English | |
| Arundhati Roy | Indian | The God of Small Things | 1997 | Asia, India, Kerala | English | |
| Sam Selvon | Trinidadian | The Lonely Londoners | 1956 | Europe, United Kingdom; Americas, Caribbean, West Indies | English | |
| Salman Rushdie | British Indian | Midnight's Children | 1981 | Europe, United Kingdom; Asia, India | English | |
| Salman Rushdie | British Indian | Shame | 1983 | Asia, Pakistan | English | |
| Salman Rushdie | British Indian | The Satanic Verses | 1988 | Europe, Britian; Asia, India | English | |
| Ousmane Sembene | Senegalese | God's Bits of Wood (Les Bouts de bois de Dieu) | 1960 | Africa, Sengal; Europe, France | French | |
| Bapsi Sidhwa | Pakistani-American | Cracking India | 1988 | Asia, India, Pakistan | English | |
| Zadie Smith | English | White Teeth | 2000 | Europe, United Kingdom; Asia, Bangladesh | English | |
| Wole Soyinka | Nigerian | The Interpreters | 1965 | Africa, Nigeria | English | |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | Weep Not, Child | 1964 | Africa, Kenya | English | ISBN 1-4050-7331-4 |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | The River Between | 1965 | Africa, Kenya | English | ISBN 0-435-90548-1 |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | A Grain of Wheat | 1967 | Africa, Kenya | English | ISBN 0-14-118699-2 |
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o | Kenyan | Petals of Blood | 1977 | Africa, Kenya | English, Gikuyu | ISBN 0-14-118702-6 |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Year | Author(s) | Cultural/Geographic Focus | Theme/Topic | ISBN(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African Philosophy: Myth & Reality | 1983 | Paulin J. Hountondji | Africa | African philosophy | ISBN
0-253-21096-8 |
| At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights, Identity, and Postcolonial States | 2003 | Bartholomew Dean and Jerome Levi | Various | Indigenous peoples; ethnic identity development | ISBN 0-472-06736-2 |
| Beginning Postcolonialism | 2010 | John McLeod | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN
0-719-07858-X |
| Calibán and Other Essays | 1989 | Roberto Fernández Retamar | Latin America | Latin American literature | ISBN
0-816-61743-0 |
| Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese and Western | 2000 | Guy Ankerl | Various | Eastern world, civilization | ISBN 2-88155-004-5 |
| Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race | 1995 | Robert J.C. Young | Various | Ethnocentrism, Race and society | ISBN
0-415-05374-9 |
| Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory | 1994 | Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen | Various | Postcolonialism, cultural theory | ISBN
0-719-04876-1 |
| Colonialism and postcolonial development : Spanish America in comparative perspective | 2010 | James Mahoney | Latin America | Postcolonialism in Latin America | ISBN
0-5117-4957-0 |
| Colonialism/postcolonialism | 2015 | Ania Loomba | Various | Postcolonialism, colonialism | ISBN
0-415-35064-6 |
| Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World: Two Lectures | 1998 | Alamgir Hashmi | Commonwealth, english literature | N/A | |
| A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present | 1999 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Postcolonial literature,transnationalism | ISBN
0-674-17764-9 | |
| Culture and Imperialism | 1993 | Edward Said | Europe | Imperialism, colonialism, western literature | ISBN
0-679-75054-1 |
| Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature | 1986 | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. | Africa | African literature, languages of Africa | ISBN
0-435-08016-4 |
| Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British imagination, 1880-1930 | 1983 | Benita Parry, Michael Sprinker | Asia, India | Indian literature, Anglo-Indian, Indian English literature | ISBN
1-859-84128-7 |
| The disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World | 2014 | Richard Pine | Europe, Ireland | Music of Ireland, Irish literature, Government of Ireland, Politics of the Republic of Ireland | ISBN
1-443-85893-5 |
| Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism | 1997 | Uma Narayan. | Various | Postcolonial feminism | ISBN
0-415-91418-3 |
| Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature | 1990 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN
0-415-28020-6 |
| Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English | 2005 | Eugene Benson , L.W. Conolly | Various | Postcolonial literature | ISBN
4-152-7885-6 |
| Encyclopedia of postcolonial studies | 2016 | Sangeeta Ray, Henry Schwarz, J. L. Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras, April Shemak | Various | Postcolonialism, postcolonial literature | ISBN
1-119-07650-1 |
| Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World | 1986 | Kumari Jayawardena. | Various | Postcolonial feminism, nationalism | ISBN
0-862-32264-2 |
| Gayatri Spivak: deconstruction and the ethics of postcolonial literary interpretation | 2015 | Ola Abdalkafor | India | Postcolonial literature | ISBN
1-4438-7777-8 |
| The Heathen in His Blindness: Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion | 1994 | S. N. Balagangadhara | Asia | Eastern religions | ISBN 90-04-09943-3. |
| A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English | 2005 | Prem Poddar and David Johnson | Various | Postcolonialism, Literary theory | ISBN
0-231-13507-6 |
| The Idea of Latin América | 2005 | Walter Mignolo. | Latin America | Postcolonialism in Latin America | ISBN
1-405-10085-0 |
| Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism | 1983 | Benedict Anderson | Various | Nationalism, Imagined community | ISBN 0-86091-329-5. |
| Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма) | 1917 | Vladimir Lenin | Imperialism, capitalism, social criticism | ISBN
0-717-80098-9 | |
| The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism | 1983 | Ashis Nandy. | Asia, India | Imperialism, postcolonialism, colonialism, colonial India | ISBN
0-195-61505-0 |
| Inventing Ireland | 1995 | Declan Kiberd | Europe, Ireland | Nationalism, Irish literature | ISBN
0-674-46363-3 |
| Invention of Africa: gnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge | 1988 | V. Y. Mudimbe | Africa | African philosophy, Epistemology | ISBN
0-253-33126-9 |
| Iran: A People Interrupted | 2007 | Hamid Dabashi | Asia, Middle East, Iran | Iranian studies, History of Iran
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ISBN
1-912-30320-5 |
| Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies | 1998 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonialism, colonialism, decolonization | ISBN
0-415-15303-4 |
| Eurocentrism (L'eurocentrisme) | 1988 | Samir Amin | Europe | Ethnocentrism, capitalism | ISBN
0-853-45786-7 |
| Local Histories/Global designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking | 2000 | Walter Mignolo | Various | Postcolonial literature, colonialism, literary Theory | ISBN
0-691-00140-5 |
| Location of Culture | 1994 | Homi Bhabha | Various | Imperialism, postcolonial literature | ISBN
1-136-75104-1 |
| Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa | 1988 | Abdul JanMohamed | Africa | African literature, Imperialism | ISBN
0-870-23395-5 |
| Myth of the Lazy Native: a study of the image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th century and its function in the ideology of colonial capitalism | 1977 | Syed Hussein Alatas. | Asia, Southeast | Colonialism | ISBN
0-714-63050-0 |
| Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories | 1993 | Partha Chatterjee | Asia, India | Nationalism, colonial India | ISBN
0-691-01943-6 |
| New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy | 2019 | Roopika Risam | Various | Postcolonial literature, digital humanities | ISBN
0-810-13887-5 |
| On the Postcolony | 2000 | Achille Mbembe | Africa | Postcolonialism | ISBN
0-520-20434-4 |
| Postcolonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues | 1990 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sarah Harasym | Postcolonial literature, literary Theory, philosophy | ISBN
0-4159-0170-7 | |
| Post-Colonial Question: common skies, divided horizons | 1999 | Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti | Various | Nationalism, cultural pluralism, | ISBN
0-4151-0857-8 |
| Post-Colonial Studies Reader | 1995 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin | Various | Postcolonialism, postcolonial literature Imperialism, Colonialism, Decolonization , | ISBN 0-415-09621-9. |
| Postcolonial Theory and the Arab–Israeli Conflict | 2008 | Salzman and D. Robinson Divine | |||
| Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction | 1998 | Leela Gandhi | ISBN 0-231-11273-4. | ||
| Postcolonialism and postcolonial writing in Latin America | 2012 | F. A Ortega | |||
| Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction | 2001 | Robert J.C. Young | |||
| Postcolonialism: Theoretical and critical perspectives | 2016 | M Carbin | |||
| Postkolonial Theorie. Eine kritische Einführung | 2005 | N. Dhawan. | |||
| Presentations of Postcolonialism: New Orientations | 2007 | Jaydeep Sarangi | |||
| Prospero and Caliban, the Psychology of Colonization | 1983 | Octave Mannoni and P. Powesland. | |||
| Selected Subaltern Studies | 1988 | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | |||
| The Postcolonial Ghetto | 2010 | L Paperson | |||
| Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness | 1987 | Ashis Nandy | |||
| Under Western Eyes | 1986 | Chandra Talpade Mohanty. | |||
| White Mythologies: Writing History and the West | 1990 | Robert J.C. Young | |||
| Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism | 1989 | Trinh T. Minh-ha |