Books by Nuruddin Farah
“I chose Maps for this conversation because I think it allegorises the complexity of colonial boundary drawing and what implications that has—linguistically, in terms of ethnonationalism, in terms of postcolonial conflicts inherited from these artificially drawn boundaries. I am 100% sure that Farah is going to win the Nobel at some point. These books are magical, deep and like nothing else I’ve read before.” Read more...
The Best Postcolonial Literature
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Nuruddin Farah were recommended
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Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
by Aimé Césaire -
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A Dying Colonialism
by Frantz Fanon -
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé -
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Maps: A Novel
by Nuruddin Farah -
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Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea
ed. Rosalind Morris, original essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
The Best Postcolonial Literature, recommended by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Postcolonial literature brings together writings from formerly colonised territories, allowing commonalities across disparate cultures to be identified and examined. Here, the University of Toronto academic Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb recommends five key works that explore philosophical and political questions through allegory, personal reflection and powerful polemic.
