Bibliography of Readings on Postcolonialism

Recommended by Terry DeHay, English Dept.

 

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffen. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.

----------, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Beverley, John. Against Literature. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Cesaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1972.

Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.

Dallmayr, Fred. Life-World, Modernity and Critique. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.

Ebert, Teresa.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1963.

Freire, Paulo. The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation. Trans. Donaldo Macedo. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey, Publishers, Inc., 1985.

Harlow, Barbara. Resistance Literature. New York: Meuthen, 1987.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectics of Enlightenment. New York: Continuum, 1993.

Hutcheon, Linda. "Circling the Downspout of Empire": Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism." Ariel 20, 4 (October 1989), 149-175.

----------. Poetics of Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1988.

Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. New York: The Orion Press, 1965.

Mishra, Vihay, and Hodge, Bob. "What is Post(-)Colonialism?" Textual Practice 5, 3 (1991):399-414.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Decolonizing the Mind. London: James Curry, 1989.

----------. Moving the Center: the Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. London: James Curry, 1993.

Niranjana, Tejaswini. Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism, and the Colonial Context. Berkeley: U of California Press.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. London: Routledge, 1978.

Soyinka, Wole. Myth, Literature and the African World. London: Cambridge UP, 1976.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York and London: Routledge, 1987.

----------. Outside in the Teaching Machine. New York and London: Routledge, 1993.

----------. The Post-colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.

Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: a Reader. 1994.