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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

An all time favorite, admitted, like most girls my age in my field of study. :)

Collected Plays: Volume 1

by Wole Soyinka

One of the first things I noticed about "A Dance in the Forest" is that it is not not very nationalistic, even though it was performed for the celebration of Nigerian independence in October 1960. If anything it seems like a warn...

Arrow of God

by Chinua Achebe

An interesting final book of a series of Achebe's tragedies, said in Achebe's introduction the book he is "most likely to be caught sitting down to read again." Arrow of God is saturated in traditional themes and tensions from co...

Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

I read this book while I was researching in Ghana, Africa. It was amazing to me how the issues seemed to line up with my personal experience that week. Frightening really. I guess I knew that others did not have the same privileges that ...

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

by Bill Ashcroft

Reading this book was extremely helpful in putting postcolonial literature into perspective. Considering the content, it was also fairly easy to digest. Until reading this book I had been frustrated by some of the slang and accents of “en...

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