Beginning Postcolonialism (Beginnings)
By: John McLeod
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- theory
- politics
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Hard to Be a God
By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky
3.39
Format: 440 pages,
The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an… read more
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4. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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5. Blasted
By: Sarah Kane
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more
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6. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Joys of Motherhood
By: Buchi Emecheta
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children -… read more
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8. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)
By: George R.R. Martin , Gary Gianni
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdom… read more
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9. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: None
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more
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10. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
11. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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12. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Robert J.C. Young
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing … read more
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13. Go Set a Watchman
By: Harper Lee
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more
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14. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
15. Translations
By: Brian Friel
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more
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16. We Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more
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17. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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18. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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19. The Location of Culture
By: Homi K. Bhabha , Teresa Miller
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working… read more
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20. Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more
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21. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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22. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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23. Metamorphosis and Other Stories
By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he t… read more
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24. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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26. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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27. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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28. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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29. El peligro de la historia única
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.21
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
La TED talk más popular de Chimamanda, con más de doce millones de reproducciones. «Las historias i… read more
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"Así es como se crea una historia única, se muestra a un pueblo solo como una cosa, una única cosa, una y otra vez, y al final lo conviertes en eso."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, El peligro de la historia única
30. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
31. Beginning Postcolonialism (Beginnings)
By: John McLeod
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, expanding and challenging areas of literary an… read more
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- post colonial
- education
- literary criticism
