Post Colonial Literature Bibliography


Table of Contents

 

Post Colonial Literature—General Sources

Background Information—British Empire

Empire in British Literature

Background Information: Spanish, French and other Empires

Africa (Sub-Saharan)

Asia

Australia/New Zealand

Caribbean

Latin America

Middle East/North Africa

North America

General Works on Post-Colonial Writing and Post-Colonial Feminist Approaches

Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernity

Orientalism

Websites


 

Post Colonial Literature—General Sources:

 

The empire writes back : theory and practice in post-colonial literatures

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.

      London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.

      Stacks  PR9080 .A85 1989

 

Interviews with writers of the post-colonial world

      Conducted and edited by Feroza Jussawalla and Reed Way Dasenbrock.

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

      Stacks  PR9080 .J87 1992

 

The ballistic bard : postcolonial fictions

Judie Newman.

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : Distributed exclusively

      in the USA by St Martin's Press, 1995.

      Stacks  PR9084 .N49 1995.

 

Colonial and postcolonial literature : migrant metaphors

Elleke Boehmer.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

      Stacks  PR9080 .B64 1995.

 

The post-colonial studies reader

edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.

London ; New York : Routledge, c1995.

      Stacks  PR9080 .P57 1995

 

Recasting the world : writing after colonialism

edited by Jonathan White.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993.

      Stacks  PR9080 .R42 1993

 

Culture and imperialism

Edward W. Said.

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993. 1st ed.

      Stacks  PN761 .S28 1993

 

Encyclopedia of world cultures

      Reference  GN307 .E53 1991 

 

The world and the West : the European challenge and the overseas response in the Age of Empire / Philip D. Curtin.

      Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

      Stacks  CB417 .C87 2000 

 

English Literature: Opening Up the Canon / ed Leslie A. Fiedler and Houston A. Backer, Jr.

      Stacks PR9080.E53 1981

 

The New English Literatures / Bruce King

      Stacks PR9080.K53 1980

 

The Commonwealth Pen: An Introduction to the Literature of the British Commonwealth / ed A.L. McLeod

      Stacks PR9080.M3

 

Countermodernism and the Francophone Literary Game Culture of Slipknot / Keith L. Walker

            Stacks PQ3897.W35 1999

 

Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory : a reader

      edited and introduced by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman.

      New York: Columbia University Press, c1994.

      Stacks  JV51 .C73 1994

 

Postcolonialism : an historical introduction / Robert J.C. Young.

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Stacks  JV51 .Y68 2001 

 

The colonizer and the colonized / Albert Memmi ; introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre ; afterword by Susan Gilson Miller ; [translated by Howard Greenfeld].

      Boston : Beacon Press, c1991.

      Stacks  JV51 .M413 1991 

 

The lords of human kind : black man, yellow man, and white man in an age of empire / V.G. Kiernan.

      New York : Columbia University Press, 1986.

      Stacks  JV305 .K53 1986 

 

Post-colonial studies : the key concepts

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002, c2000.

      Stacks  JV185 .A74 2000

 

The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History.

      J.M. Blaut.

      New York: Guilford Press.

      Stacks  D 16.9 .B49 1993


Background Information—British Empire

 

Eclipse of empire / D.A. Low. 

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Stacks  DA16 .L8684 1991 

 

Atlas of British overseas expansion / edited by A.N. Porter.

      New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991.

      Reference G1805 .A8 1991 

 

Atlas of the British Empire / [editor: C. A. Bayly].

      New York : Facts on File, c1989.

      Reference  G1805 .A75 1989

 

European women and the second British Empire / Margaret Strobel.

      Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1991.

      Stacks  HQ1593 .S85 1991 

 

Heaven's command : an imperial progress / James Morris.

      New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, c1973.

      Stacks  DA16 .M596 1980 

 

Pax Britannica : the climax of an empire / James Morris.

      New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, c1968.

      Stacks  DA16 .M597 1980 

 

Farewell the trumpets : an imperial retreat / James Morris.

      New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, c1978.

      Stacks  DA16 .M598 1980 

 

Women of the Raj / Margaret Macmillan.

      New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, c1988.

      Stacks DS428 .M28 1988


Empire in British Literature

 

Romantic imperialism : universal empire and the culture of modernity

Saree Makdisi.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1998.

      Stacks  PR468.I49 M35 1998

 

Place matters : gendered geography in Victorian women's travel books about Southeast Asia / Susan Morgan.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1996.

Stacks  PR788.T72 M67 1996 

 

Shakespeare's Troy : drama, politics, and the translation of empire

Heather James.

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.

      Stacks  PR2836 .J36 1997

 

Rule of darkness : British literature and imperialism, 1830-1914

Patrick Brantlinger.

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1988.

      Stacks  PR469.I52 B73 1988

 

The ruling passion : British colonial allegory and the paradox of homosexual

desire

Christopher Lane.

Durham : Duke University Press, c1995.

      Stacks  PR468.H65 L36 1995

 

Joyce, race, and empire

Vincent J. Cheng.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1995.

      Stacks  PR6019.O9 Z52644 1995

 

The poetics of imperialism : translation and colonization from The tempest to

Tarzan

Eric Cheyfitz.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

      Stacks  PS169.I45 C4 1991.

 

Rule Britannia : women, empire, and Victorian writing

Deirdre David.

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1995.

Stacks  PR468.I49 D38 1995


Background Information—Spanish, French and other Empires

 

Belgium

King Leopold's Congo.

London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962.

      Stacks DT655 .S55

 

King Leopold's legacy: the Congo under Belgian rule, 1908-1960.

London, Oxford U.P., issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, 1966.

Stacks DT511 .A65

 

Challenge of the Congo.

      New York, International Publishers [1967]

      Stacks DT658 .N43 1967a

 

Politics in the Congo; decolonization and independence.

      Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1965.

      Stacks DT658 .Y6

 

The truth about the Congo; the Chicago tribune articles, by Frederick Starr.

      Chicago, Forbes & Company, 1907.

      Stacks DT646 .S7

 

France

 

French colonialism, 1871-1914: myths and realities. Introd. by Ronald E. Robinson. [English translation from the French by William Granville Brown]

      New York, Praeger [1966,c1964]

      Stacks  JV1817 .B743 1966a 

 

France and decolonisation / Raymond F. Betts.

      New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.

      Stacks  JV1818 .B48 1991 

 

The French encounter with Africans : white response to Blacks, 1530-1880 / William B. Cohen.

      Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1980.

      Stacks  DT33.3 .C63 

 

France and Britain in Africa: imperial rivalry and colonial rule. Edited by Prosser Gifford and Wm. Roger Louis.

      New Haven, Yale University Press, 1971.

      Stacks  DT33 .F7 

 

France and the Africans 1944-1960: a political history.

      London, Faber, 1969.

      Stacks  DT33 .M65 

 

Africans learn to be French; a review of educational activities in the seven federated colonies of French West Africa, based upon a tour of French West Africa undertaken in 1935, by W. Bryant Mumford in consultation with Major G. St. J. Orde-Brown.

London, Evans brothers, [1937?]

Stacks  LA1661 .M8 

 

French-speaking Africa since independence.

      New York, Praeger [1969]

      Stacks  DT30 .L8 1969 

 

Italy

 

The Italianization of African natives; government native education in the Italian colonies, 1890-1937, by Roland R. De Marco.

      New York, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943.

      Stacks  LA1881 .D4 1943a 

 

Ethiopia under Mussolini : fascism and the colonial experience / Alberto Sbacchi.

      London : Zed, 1985.

      Stacks  DT387.9 .S25 1985 

 

 

Netherlands

 

The Dutch seaborne empire, 1600-1800 / C.R. Boxer.

      Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1990, c1965.

      Stacks  JV2511 .B67 1990 

 

Portugal

 

The First Portuguese colonial empire / edited by Malyn Newitt.

Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, 1986.

Stacks  JV4212 .F57 1986 

 

Race relations in the Portuguese colonial empire, 1415-1825.

      Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963.

      Stacks  JV4235 .B6 

 

Portuguese Africa.

      Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1959.

      Stacks  DT36 .D8 

 

Spain

 

Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492-1700 / by Lyle N. McAlister.

      Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1984.

      Stacks  E123 .M38 1984 

 

Spain's empire in the New World : the role of ideas in institutional and social change / Colin M. MacLachlan.

      Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988.

      Stacks  JV4062 .M32 1988 

 

Las Casas : in search of the poor of Jesus Christ / Gustavo Gutiérrez ; translated by Robert R. Barr.

      Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1993.

      Stacks  F1411 .G97913 1993 

 


Africa (Sub-Saharan)

 

Background information

 

Africa and the West: A documentary history from the slave trade to independence William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark, and Edward A. Alpers.

      Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2001.

      Stacks  DT353.5.E9 A34 2001 

 

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara

      Reference  DT351 .E53 1997

 

The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 / Thomas Pakenham.

      New York : Random House, c1991.

      Stacks  DT28 .P34 1991 

 

African perspectives on colonialism / A. Adu Boahen.

      Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.

      Stacks  JV246 .B63 1987 

 

Citizen and subject : contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani.

      Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

      Stacks  JV246 .M35 1996 

 

Women in African colonial histories / edited by Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi.

      Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.

      Stacks  HQ1787 .W655 2002 

 

Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960: edited by L. H. Gann & Peter Duignan.

      London, Cambridge U.P., 1969-1975.

      Stacks  DT31 .G35 v.1-3

 

African voices, African visions / edited by Olubenga Adesida and Arunman Oteh.

Uppsala : Nordic Africa Institute, 2001.

      Stacks  DT30.5 .A3658 2001

 

Collapsed states : the disintegration and restoration of legitimate authority / edited by I. William Zartman.

     Boulder : L. Rienner Publishers, c1995.

      Stacks  JQ1879.A15 C647 1995

 

African independence : the first twenty-five years / edited by Gwendolen M. Carter and Patrick O'Meara.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : Hutchinson, 1985.

Stacks  DT30.5 .A356 1985

 

Literary Criticism

 

African/English Literature / ed. Anne Tibble

      Stacks PR9799.T5 1965

 

Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria / Wendy Griswold

      Stacks PR9387.4.G75 2000

 

Manichean aesthetics : the politics of literature in colonial Africa

      Stacks  PR9344 .J36 1983

 

Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa / Christopher L. Miller

      Stacks PQ3980.M55 1990

 

Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture / Christopher L. Miller

      Stacks PQ3980.M548 1998

 

The literature and thought of modern Africa; a survey

Claude Wauthier. Translated by Shirley Kay.

New York: F. A. Praeger, 1967.

Stacks  DT21 .W313 1967

 

This Africa / Judith Illsley Gleason

      Stacks PQ3984.G4 1965

 

White shadows : a dialectical view of the French African novel

      Carroll Yoder.

Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1991.

      Stacks  PQ3984 .Y63 1991

 

Resistance in postcolonial African fiction

Neil Lazarus.

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990.

      Stacks  PR9379.9.A7 Z75 1990

 

The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature.

Edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.

London ; New York : Routledge, c1997.

Stacks  PL8010 .P57 1997

 

Francophone African women writers : destroying the emptiness of silence / Irène Assiba d'Almeida.

      Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1994.

      Stacks  PQ3980.5 .A46 1994 

 

African oral Literature : backgrounds, character, and continuity

      Isidore Okpewho.

      Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992.

      Stacks.  GR350 .O37 1992.

 

The epic in Africa: toward a poetics of the oral performance

      Isidore Okpewho.

      New York: Columbia University Press, c1979.

      Stacks.  PL 8010.4  .O38.

 

Decolonising the mind: the politics of language on African Literature.

      Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o

      London: J. Curry; Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1986.

      Stacks PL8010.N48 1986.

 

Moving the centre : the struggle for cultural freedoms / Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o.

      London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, c1993.

      Stacks  PL8010 .N485 1993 

 

Myth, Literature, and the African World.

      Wole Soyinka.

      Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

      Stacks PL8010. S64.

 

African Writing Today.

      Ezekeil Mphahlele.

      Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.

      Stacks PL8013.E5 M64 1967.

 

The African Image.

      Ezekiel Mphahlele.

      New York, Praeger [c1962]

      Stacks PL 8010.M7 1962.

 

Writer and Region.

      Athol Fugard.

      New York: Anson Phelps Stokes Institute for African, Afro-American, and

      American Indian Affairs, 1987.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 Z95 1987.

 

Fiction, Theater, Poetry & Prose

Cameroon: Mongo Beti

Lament for an African pol

      Mongo Beti.

      Washington D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1985.

      Stacks PQ3989.2.B45 R813 1985.

 

Mission to Kala.

      Mongo Beti.

      London : Heinemann Educational, 1964, c1958.

      Stacks PR9052.E8 M5 1964.

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire):

La Vie est Belle (Film)

Video PN 1995.9 .F67 V53 1997

 

Ghana: Ayi Kwei Armah

The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born : A Novel

      Ayi Kwei Armah.

      Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

      Stacks PR6051.R55 B4 1968.

 

Kenya and Britain: Beryl Markham

West With the Night / Beryl Markham

      Stacks PR9381.9.M374 Z46 1983

 

Kenya: Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o

A Grain of Wheat.

      Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o

      London, Heinemann, [c1967]

      Stacks PR9381.9.N45 G7.

 

Weep not,Child.

      Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o

      London: Heinemann Educational Books, c1964.

      Stacks PR6064.G8 W4 1964.

 

Nigeria: Chinua Achebe

Anthills of the Savannah.

      Chinua Achebe.

      New York : Doubleday, 1989, c1987.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 1989.

 

Arrow of God.

      Chinua Achebe.

      London : Heinemann, 1965, c1964.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 A8 1965.

     

Beware, Soul Brother : Poems.

      Chinua Achebe.

      London : Heinemann Educational, 1972.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 B4 1972.

 

Girls at War and Other Stories.

      Chinua Achebe.

      New York : Anchor Books, 1991, c1973.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 G57 1991.

 

Hope and Impediments : Selected Essays.

      Chinua Achebe.

      New York : Doubleday, c1988.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 H6 1989.

 

A Man of the People.

      Chinua Achebe.

      London, Heimann, 1966.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 M3 1966.

 

No Longer at Ease.

      Chinua Achebe.

      London : Heimann Educational Books, 1963, c1960.

      Stacks PR9287.9.A3 N6 1963.

 

Things Fall apart.

      Chinua Achebe.

      London : Heinemann Educational, 1967, c1958.

      Stacks PR9387.9.A3 T47 1967.

 

Nigeria: T.M. Aluko

One Man, One Matchet / T.M. Aluko

      Stacks PR9387.9.A4 O5 1965

 

Nigeria: Elechi Amadi

The Concubine / Elechi Amadi

      Stacks PR9387.9.A48 C7 1966

 

Nigeria: Cyprian Ekwensi

Beautiful Feathers

     Cyprian Ekwensi.

      London; Hutchinson, 1963.

      Stacks PR6055.K9 B42 1963                                   

 

Burning grass: a story of the Fulani of Northern Nigeria

      Cyprian Ekwensi; Ill by A Folarin.

      London: Heinemann, 1962.

      Stacks.  PR 9387.5.E37 B8 1962.

 

Nigeria: Buchi Emecheta

The Joys of Motherhood : A novel.

      Buchi Emecheta.

      New York : G. Braziller, 1988, c1979.

      Stacks PR9387.9.E387 J6 1979.

 

Nigeria: Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike

Toads for Supper / Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike

      Stacks PR6059.K4 T6 1965

 

Nigeria: Ben Okri

The Famished Road.

      Ben Okri.

      New York: N.A. Talese, 1992, c1991.

      Stacks PR9387.9.O394 F3 1992.

 

Flowers and Shadows.

      Ben Okri.

      Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1989, c1980.

      Stacks PR9387.9.O394 F5 1989.

     

Songs of Enchantment.

      Ben Okri.

      New York: Nan A. Talese, c1993.

      Stacks PR9387.9.O394 S6 1993.

 

Stars of the New Curfew.

      Ben Okri.

      New York: Penguin Books, 1990, c1988.

      Stacks PR9387.9.O394 S7 1990.

 

Nigeria: Wole Soyinka

Ake: The Years of Childhood.

      Wole Soyinka.

      New York: Random House, c1981.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 Z462 1981.

 

Collected Plays.

      Wole Soyinka.

      London, New York, Oxford Uniersity Press.

      Stacks PR9387.9 .S6 1973.

 

A Dance of the Forest.

      Wole Soyinka.

      London, Oxford University Press, 1963.

      Stacks PR6069.O9 D3.

 

Five Plays.

      Wole Soyinka.

      London, Oxford University Press, c1964.

      Stacks PR6069.O9 F5.

 

The Interpreters.

      Wole Soyinka.

      London: Heinemann, 1970, c1965.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 I6 1970.

 

Isara, a voyage around Essay.

      Wole Soyinka.

      New York: Random House, c1989.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 Z466 1989.

 

Madmen and Specialists, a play.

      Wole Soyinka.

      New York, Hill and Wang c1971.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 M3 1971.

 

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis.

      Wole Soyinka.

      New York: Oxford University Press, c1996.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 Z473 1996.

 

Mandela’s earth and Other Poems.

      Wole Soyinka.

      New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1988.

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 M36 1988.

 

A Shuttle in the Crypt.

      Wole Soyinka.

     New York, Hill and Wang [1972].

      Stacks PR9387.9.S6 1972b.

 

Somalia: Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah / Patricia Alden and Louis Tremaine

      Stacks PR9396.9.F3 Z54 1999

 

South Africa: Andre Brink

A Dry White Season / André Brink

      Stacks PR9369.3.B7 D7 1984

 

South Africa: Dennis Brutus

A Simple Lust: Collected Poems of South African Jail and Exile / Dennis Brutus

      Stacks PR9390.9.B7 A6 1973b

 

South Africa: Athol Fugard

The Blood Knot, a Play in Seven Scenes.

      Athol Fugard.

      New York, Odyssey Press, 1964.

      Stacks PR6056.U4 B4 1964.

 

Boesman and Lena and other plays.

      Athol Fugard.

      Cape Town : Owford University Press, 1980.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 A19 1980.

 

Boesman & Lena. (Film Adaptation of Fugard’s play)

      Berry, John.

New York : Kino International : [Distributor] Kino on Video, [2001], c1999.

      Video PN1995.9.R22 B63 2001.

 

Statements : [Three Plays].

      Athol Fugard.

      New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1986.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 S8 1986.

 

A Lesson from Aloes.

      Athol Fugard.

      New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1989, c1981.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 L4 1989.

 

“Master Harold” and the boys : a drama.

      Athol Fugard.

      New York: S. French, c1982.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 M3 1982b.

 

The Road to Mecca.

      Athol Fugard.

      New York, NY : Theatre Communications Group, 1988, c1985.

      Stacks PR9369.3.F8 R6 1988.

 

South Africa: Nadine Gordimer

Burger’s Daughter.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York: Viking Press, 1979.

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 B8.

 

The Conservationist.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      London: Peguin Books, 1978, c1978.

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 C65 1978.

 

A Guest of Honour.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York, Viking Press [1970].

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 G8.

     

Jump and other Stories.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York: Farrer Straus Girouz, 1991.

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 J83 1991.

 

Livingstone’s Companions; stories.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York, Viking Press [1971].

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 L5.

 

My Son’s Story.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York: Farrer, Straus, Giroux, c1990.

      Stacks PR3969.3.G6 M9 1990.

     

None to Accompany Me.

      Nadine Gorimer.

      New York: Farrer, Straus, Giroux, c1994.

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 N6 1994.

 

Something out there: stories.

      Nadine Gordimer.

      New York: Viking Press, c1984.

      Stacks PR9369.3.G6 S66 1984.

 

Writing and Being.

      Nadine Gordimer.