Foundational Texts in Postcolonial Theory

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.

Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Joan Pinkham, trans. Monthly Review Press, 1955.

Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. James Currey, 1986.

Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Edited by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, University of Illinois Press, 1988, pp. 271-313.

Key Texts in Postcolonial Literature

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Heinemann, 1958.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Constance Farrington, trans. Grove Press, 1961.

Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.

Phillips, Caryl. Crossing the River. Knopf, 1993.

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997.

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981.

Critical Works in Postcolonial Studies

Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989.

---. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts. Routledge, 2000.

Childs, Peter, and R.J. Patrick Williams. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Prentice Hall, 1997.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean. SUNY Press, 2000.

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Routledge, 1998.

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Oxford University Press, 1983.

Parry, Benita. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. Routledge, 2004.

Young, Robert J.C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2001.

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