Postcolonial Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
MorePostcolonial Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
IntroductionTop 10 List
Million Dollar Questions
Characteristics
Appropriation of Colonial Languages
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (2009)
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
Metanarrative
J.M. Coetzee, Foe (1986)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Colonialism
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990)
Colonial Discourse
Assia Djebar, Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (1985)
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1990)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Patrick Chamoiseau, School Days (1997; first published in French 1994)
Rewriting History
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1980)
Decolonization Struggles
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood (1977)
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1947)
Nationhood and Nationalism
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1980)
Valorization of Cultural Identity
Raja Rao, Kanthapura (1938)
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
Counter-Discourse
Challenging Stereotypes
Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004)
Top Authors
Chinua Achebe
Salman Rushdie
Jean Rhys
Gabriel García Márquez
Derek Walcott
Timeline
Texts
Best of the Web
Module Quizzes
But is it Postcolonial Literature? Identifying Quotes
Postcolonial Literature Obsessions: Themes and Symbols
The Who's and What's of Postcolonial Literature
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