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Postcolonial non-fiction

Pre-2000

• Alatas, Syed Hussein. 1977. The Myth of the Lazy Native.
• Anderson, Benedict. [1983] 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. ISBN 0-86091-329-5.
• Ashcroft, B., G. Griffiths, and H. Tiffin. 1990. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature.
• ——, eds. 1995. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-09621-9.
• ——, eds. 1998. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge.
• Amin, Samir. 1988. L'eurocentrisme ('Eurocentrism').
• Balagangadhara, S. N. [1994] 2005. "The Heathen in his Blindness..." Asia, the West, and the Dynamic of Religion. Manohar books. ISBN 90-04-09943-3.
• Bhabha, Homi K. 1994. The Location of Culture.
• Chambers, I., and L. Curti, eds. 1996. The Post-Colonial Question. Routledge.
• Chatterjee, P. Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press.
• Gandhi, Leela. 1998. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Columbia University Press: ISBN 0-231-11273-4.
• Guevara, Che. 11 December 1964. "Colonialism is Doomed" (speech). 19th General Assembly of the United Nations. Havana.
• Minh-ha, Trinh T. 1989. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. Indiana University Press.
  • German edition: trans. Kathrina Menke. Vienna & Berlin: Verlag Turia & Kant. 2010.
  • Japanese edition: trans. Kazuko Takemura. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. 1995.
• —— 1989. Infinite Layers/Third World?
• Hashmi, Alamgir. 1998. The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World: Two Lectures. Islamabad: Gulmohar.
• Hountondji, Paulin J. 1983. African Philosophy: Myth & Reality.
• Jayawardena, Kumari. 1986. Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World.
• JanMohamed, A. 1988. Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa.
• Kiberd, Declan. 1995. Inventing Ireland.
• Lenin, Vladimir. 1916. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
• Mannoni, Octave, and P. Powesland. Prospero and Caliban, the Psychology of Colonization.
• Nandy, Ashis. 1983. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism.
• —— 1987. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness.
• McClintock, Anne. 1994. "The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Postcolonialism'." In Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory, edited by M. Baker, P. Hulme, and M. Iverson.
• Mignolo, Walter. 1999. Local Histories/Global designs: Coloniality.
• Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1986. Under Western Eyes.
• Mudimbe, V. Y. 1988. The Invention of Africa.
• Narayan, Uma. 1997. Dislocating Cultures.
• —— 1997. Contesting Cultures.
• Parry, B. 1983. Delusions and Discoveries.
• Raja, Masood Ashraf. "Postcolonial Student: Learning the Ethics of Global Solidarity in an English Classroom."
• Quijano, Aníbal. [1991] 1999. "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality." In Globalizations and Modernities.
• Retamar, Roberto Fernández. [1971] 1989 . "Calibán: Apuntes sobre la cultura de Nuestra América" ['Caliban: Notes About the Culture of Our America']. In Calibán and Other Essays.
• Said, Edward. 1993. Culture and Imperialism.
• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1988. Can the Subaltern Speak?
• —— 1988. Selected Subaltern Studies.
• —— 1990. The Postcolonial Critic.
• —— 1999. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present.
• wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ. 1986. Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.
• Young, Robert J. C. 1990. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West.
• —— 1995. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race.

After 2000

• Ankerl, G. 2000. Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations. Geneva: Indiana University Press. ISBN 2-88155-004-5.
• Bachetta, Paola. 2012. Cahiers du CEDREF on Decolonial Feminist and Queer Theories.
• Dabashi, Hamid. 2007. Iran: A People Interrupted.
• Dean, B., and J. Levi, eds. 2003. At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights, Identity, and Postcolonial States. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-06736-2.
• Dhawan, N. 2005. "Postkolonial Theorie. Eine kritische Einführung" ['Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Enquiry'].
• Mbembe, Achille. 2000. On the Postcolony. Regents of the University of California.
• McLeod, John. 2000. Beginning Postcolonialism.
  • 2010. Beginning Postcolonialism (2nd ed.). Manchester University Press.
• Mignolo, Walter. 2005. The Idea of Latin América.
• Paperson, L. 2005. "The Postcolonial Ghetto." doi:10.5070/B81110026.
• Poddar, Prem, and David Johnson, ed. 2008. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-3602-0. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
• Prine, Richard. 2014. The Disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World.
• Risam, Roopika. 2018. New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy.
• Salzman, Philip C., and D. Robinson Divine, eds. 2008. Postcolonial Theory and the Arab–Israeli Conflict. Routledge.
• Young, Robert J. C. 2001. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction.

postcolonialism in term of Arab representation

Many Islamic countries in the Middle East suffered from colonial occupation on their lands. The Colonization that has occurred through this part of the world was by two counties; France that occupied Algeria in 1830, Tunisia in 1881, Morocco in 1912. Britain occupied Aden in 1839, Egypt in 1882, and Sudan in 1889. A British-France occupation in Libya occurred in 1912. This influence expanded with the Sykes-Picot agreement in 1915 with Britain and France expanding their colonial rule to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine.

After this colonization ended in these countries, many literate minds wrote about postcolonial literature and other topics. These are some of the major influencers and authors that had major contributions in the Middle East post colonization:

Aden (Yemen):

Aden was colonized in 1839 by Britain and decolonized in November 1963; the city later became part of Yemen in 1967. Aden was largest seaport on the Arabian Peninsula harboring a lot of traffic and nationalities, primarily Indians which were an extension of the British colonization.

By the late 1950s, major disparities in wealth has been showing grounds in Aden and signs of an Arabian revolution was already showing in Egypt led by President Gamal Abdul Nasser. During these difficult times, Yemeni literature vividly described the horrible state of living in Aden as an Arabian focusing on the difficulties that are arising in the city like violence, racism, improper distribution of wealth and corruption. Literature focused on fictional stories to portray reality like ‘The Torn Ultimatum’ by Ahmad Mahfuz Umar and ‘Self Denial’ by Mohamad Qasim Muthanna was stories that sparked the revolution in Aden.

The style of these writing has made it difficult for historians to properly compile a description of how Aden truly was as most literature described this city in the perspective of the oppressor; hence a true image of the city was never depicted. Soon after its decolonization, Aden became part of Yemen.

Lebanon:

French colonization of Lebanon ended in 1943 and suffered drastically after that during the civil war that lasted from 1975 until 1990. Since then, Lebanon has been home of many literate minds that spoke of the civil war and discussed Lebanon’s history along with many literature pieces focusing on philosophy and fiction.

Great writers published critically acclaimed books and publications like Jabbour Douaihy that published ‘June Rain’ narrating her experience during the Christian clash in 1957 between northern Lebanese villages; Samir Kassir the author of ‘Beirut’ shined as a historian during recent Lebanese history through narrating Lebanese history during different manifestations of Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French leading up to the “westernized Mediterranean Arab metropolis” of today (Naji Bakhti, 2020). Kassir was assassinated on June 5 2005 in Achrafieh, Lebanon during a period where his free speech was unwelcomed by some political parties. A recent publication that described Lebanon’s recent history was ‘Lebanon: A Country in Fragments’ by Andrew Arsan that dived deeply in Lebanon since 2005 that suffered from a series of assassinations, bombings, wars, and the recent financial collapse Lebanon is witnessing. Arsan’s writing is considered an accurate depiction of Lebanon’s recent history.

Syria:

Syria gained independence from the French colonization on April 1946. Post colonization, Syria has harbored many of the greatest writers of the Middle East publishing numerous books discussing politics and the civil war along with numerous romantic novels and philosophy and mythical fiction.

Salim Barakat one of Syria’s most acclaimed writers, the father of ‘magical realism’ in Arabic literature. He authored many books shining in ‘The Caves of Hydrahose’ which was his masterpiece in magical realism, a book that tells a story about a village of centaurs that face cultural and society challenges reflected by the real world. Syria also harbored acclaimed poets like Ali Ahmad Said Esber, known as Adunis, that was nominated for the nobel prize in Literature since 1988. Adunis has also been recognized by the Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression winning the Bjørnson Prize in 2007.

Some Syrian novelists went on to shed light on the French colonization period like Ulfat Idlibi through her novel ‘Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet’ that narrated the challenges women faced during the colonization period in Syria. The story reflected on the social struggles and oppression women suffered during these times and have been successful that it was adapted by Syrian television and has become a classical in Syria. (Anahit Behrooz, 2016)

Iraq:

Iraq was under the colonization of Britain up until 1958, and since then many critically acclaimed publications and authors have originated from Iraq.

Najem Wali the author of ‘Journey to Tell Al-Lahm’ has been a great novel depicting the horrors that were accompanied by Saddam’s regime. Wali suffered a lot during his life in Iraq especially after being drafted for military service where he was tortured for dissertation. After that he travelled to Berlin in 1980 where he still remains in exile. Other Iraqi writers shined in the art of storytelling like Luay Hamzah Abbas that received international recognition for his short stories. Hamzah’s greatest publications were ‘Closing His Eyes’ in 2008 that was translated to English and found a lot of success among English readers. His writings were recognized and won awards including Creative Short Story Award from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture (2009) and the Kikah Best Short Story Award from London (2006). Betool Khedairi is another Iraqi writer that authored ‘A Sky So Close’ that was translated from Arabic to English, French and Dutch. Her writing is internationally recognized and is a center of critique studies in international universities. (Lucy Freeland, 2016)

Palestine:

While Palestine never really went through a post colonization phase as its British colonization ended in 1948 followed by the Israeli declaration of independence, it has harbored many great publications especially those describing occupation and revolution.

One of the most revered Palestinian poets and writers of all time is Mahmoud Darwiche. His poems depicted homeland, suffering and exile that he experienced as a child as he was exiled from his home in Palestine to Beirut. Some of his greatest poems were ‘I Come from There’ and ‘Passport’ and ‘Identity Card’ that reflected upon his identity crisis and his love for his home vividly describing his loneliness and life. His work was critically acclaimed globally winning awards including but not limited to France’s Knight of Arts and Belles, USSR’s Stalin Peace Prize, and Lenin’s Peace Prize among many more.