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24 books
A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Independence week. Everyone's keeping a secret.
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Ambiguous Adventure
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Sent to learn the enemy's weapons. He loses himself.
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Beyond a Boundary
CLR James
Cricket, colonialism, and what it means to play the master's game.
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Black Elk Speaks
John G. Neihardt
A Lakota medicine man's vision, finally written down.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Westward expansion, told by the people it destroyed.
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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka
A ritual suicide interrupted by colonialism.
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In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming
A Barbadian childhood, and colonialism arriving without announcement.
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King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
The most profitable atrocity in history. Documented.
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Malinche
Laura Esquivel
History's most complicated woman gets her own voice.
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The mansion is poisoning her. So is the colony it was built on.
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Omeros
Derek Walcott
Homer's Odyssey, reborn in the Caribbean.
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Orientalism
Edward Said
The West didn't study the East. It invented it.
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Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
A colonist's love letter to the land she took.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
Three girls walked into the rock. Nobody came back.
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Shark Dialogues
Kiana Davenport
Four Hawaiian women. Five generations. The kingdom that was stolen.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg
A half-Greenlandic woman investigates a child's death in Copenhagen.
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Song of the Simple Truth
Julia de Burgos
Puerto Rico's greatest poet, collected at last.
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The Broken Spears
Miguel León-Portilla
The conquest of Mexico, told by the conquered.
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The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes
Australia was built by convicts. This is what that actually meant.
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The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
The Himalayas, an insurgency, and a cook's son in New York.
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
Monique Roffey
A mermaid caught by tourists. A fisherman sets her free.
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
The bible of decolonization, written by a psychiatrist.
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This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A Javanese student in colonial Indonesia learns what modernity costs.
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
Nelson Denis
The American colony that never made it into American history class.
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