Postcolonialism & Postcolonial Literature

This is a listing of (primarily) English-language authors and texts that have been associated with postcolonial studies, as well as a number of topic essays related to them. The list is not exhaustive.

Articles Year
Ali, Monica. Brick Lane 2003
Aslam, Nadeem. Maps for Lost Lovers 2004
Biyi Bandele 1989 -
Homi K Bhabha 1969 -
Carnival, Carnivalesque, Carnivalisation
Vikram Chandra 1995 -
J. M. Coetzee 1974 -
Coetzee, J. M.. Disgrace 1999
Coetzee, J. M.. Foe 1986
Lindsey Collen 1990 -
Desai, Anita. In Custody 1984
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. The Imperialist 1904
Leoncio Evita Enoy 1950 - 1953
German Postcolonial Literature 1945 - 2005
Amitav Ghosh 1976 -
Ghosh, Amitav. In an Antique Land 1992
Ghosh, Amitav. The Shadow Lines 1988
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2007
Nalo Hopkinson 1985 -
Keri Hulme 1985 - 2021
Arun Joshi 1968 - 1990
Joshi, Arun. The Apprentice 1974
Joshi, Arun. The City and the River 1990
Joshi, Arun. The Foreigner 1968
Joshi, Arun. The Last Labyrinth 1980
Joshi, Arun. The Strange Case of Billy Biswas 1971
Hanif Kureishi 1990 -
Kureishi, Hanif. The Black Album 1995
Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia 1990
Levy, Andrea. Small Island 2004
Magic Realism, Magical Realism 1960
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby 1981
Mo, Timothy. An Insular Possession 1987
Timothy Mo 1982 -
Mo, Timothy. The Monkey King 1978
Naipaul, V. S.. A Bend in the River 1979
Donato Ndongo 1973 -
Ben Okri 1980 -
Okri, Ben. The Famished Road 1991
Michael Ondaatje 1967 -
Okot p'Bitek 1966 - 1982
Caryl Phillips 1978 -
Phillips, Caryl. The Nature of Blood 1997
Post-colonialism, Postcolonialism 1945
Jean Rhys 1924 - 1979
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea 1966
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children 1981
Salman Rushdie 1975 -
Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar The Clown 2005
Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh 1995
Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses 1988
Said, Edward. Orientalism 1978
Edward Said 1955 - 2003
Smith, Zadie. On Beauty 2005
Zadie Smith 2000 -
Smith, Zadie. White Teeth 2000
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1974 -
Walcott, Derek. Omeros 1990
Article Groups
Postcolonial literature - Britain, The Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand
Indian Poetry in English
Indian Prose Fiction in English

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