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Africa
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Nigeria) |
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Nigeria) |
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (Ghana) |
Bessie Head, Maru (Botswana) |
Camara Laye,The Radiance of Kings (Cameroon) |
Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel (Nigeria) |
Nuruddin Farah, Maps (Somalia) |
Tsitsi Dangaremba, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe) |
Zakes Mda, The Heart of Redness (South Africa) |
Middle East and North Africa
Djebar Assia, L'amour, L Fantasie (Algeria) |
Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed (Palestine) |
Naguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley (Egypt) |
Iraj Pezeshkzad, My Uncle Napoleon (Iran) |
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Sudan) |
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Asia
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (India) |
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (India/ Britain) |
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Buru Quartet (Indonesia) |
Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family (Sri Lanka) |
Babsi Sidwa, Cracking India (India) |
Mahasweti Devi, Maps (India) |
Ma Jian, The Noodlemaker (China) |
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (India/Britain) |
The Americas
Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (Antigua/U.S.) |
Selected Poetry by Seamus Heaney & Derek Walcott (Ireland/ St. Lucia) |
Derek Walcott, Dream on Donkey Mountain (St. Lucia) |
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (Antigua/ U.S.) |
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Theory
John Kucich, Fictions of Empire |
Patrick Williams & Laura Chisman, eds., Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader |
Dennis Walder, Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory |
Some other links of great interest to any student of Global Literature or to Post-Colonial Studies are:
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/postcolonialism.html
http://www.beyondthecommons.com/postcol.html
http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/
African literature websites:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/guide/hum/english/E_Africa.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Afbks.html
Latin American Literature:
http://hss.fullerton.edu/english/JGass/latin.htm
World Literature in Translation:
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org
http://www.catranslation.org/
Comparative Literature:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/complit/
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/
World Literature and Comparative Literature Organizations:
http://www.africanlit.org/
http://www.acla.org/
http://www.marshall.edu/melus/