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Jamaica Kincaid, a Black Caribbean writer from Antigua and 
Barbuda.

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Elaine Potter Richardson, known as Jamaica Kincaid, is a Black Caribbean writer born in Antigua and Barbuda on May 25, 1949. Kincaid received her primary education within the British colonial system. In 1965, at the age of sixteen, she left Antigua and Barbuda to work as an au pair in the suburbs of New York, where she continued her studies. Her work, At the Bottom of the River, is a short story collection published in 1983, which earned her the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The short story "Girl" is part of the "At the Bottom of the River" collection, published in 1983. It consists of a dialogue in which a female voice—possibly the girl's mother or another older woman—lists a series of obligations and pieces of advice on how to become a good woman. These teachings go beyond the girl's well-being and encompass societal expectations about how she should behave, perform domestic tasks, interact with others, and, especially, please the men she lives among. The observations are delivered in an oppressive tone, using imperative verbs, which naturalizes the role of women in a patriarchal, sexist, and colonialist society. The narrative also reflects power relations and the subordination of women within that social context.

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Livro/ensaio expandido: "We Should All Be Feminists"

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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a powerful essay that explores the importance of feminism and gender equality. In it, Adichie shares personal stories and observations from her life in Nigeria, offering insightful perspectives on how deeply ingrained gender norms affect both women and men.

The essay advocates for an inclusive and intersectional approach to feminism, arguing that society should redefine what it means to be a feminist. Adichie emphasizes that feminism is not about rejecting men or femininity but about creating a world where everyone has equal rights and opportunities.

It's an accessible and thought-provoking read that challenges preconceived notions about gender roles and encourages a rethinking of societal expectations.

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Grada kilomba. Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism book cover.

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Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by Grada kilomba 

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Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by Grada kilomba 

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Grada Kilomba is a writer, who born in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work critically addresses the legacy of colonialism, structural racism, and the silencing of Black voices, particularly in European contexts.

In Plantation Memories, Kilomba blends autobiographical storytelling with critical theory to explore the everyday experiences of racism faced by Black people. The book is composed of short episodes that reflect real situations of racial violence and microaggressions. Through these narratives, she questions who has the right to speak, to theorize, and to be heard.

The title Plantation Memories evokes the historical trauma of slavery and connects it to the present, showing how colonial violence continues to shape identities, language, and social structures. The book is a powerful example of decolonial literature that challenges Eurocentric narratives and reclaims the act of speaking from a Black, feminist, and diasporic perspective.

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In “Women of Owu” (2006), Osofisan, a Nigerian writer, appropriates of the English language and abrogates at the same time, bringing into the story elements of the native people’s history and culture from Nigeria, and going further, he utilizes of adaptation, collecting a historical literature, “The Trojan women” by Eripedes, dialoguing with this story from 416 b.c that tells about the spoils and survivors of the Trojan war, with his story spoken in “Women of Owu”, which tells about the war between the native people of the actual Nigeria, the Yoruba.

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Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Decolonizing the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a renowned Kenyan writer, academic, and leading voice in postcolonial thought. In his groundbreaking book Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), he explores how colonial powers used language as a tool of domination, erasing native tongues and, with them, cultural memory and identity. Originally writing in English, Ngũgĩ made the radical decision to abandon the colonial language in favor of Gikuyu, his mother tongue, as an act of resistance. The book is a powerful collection of essays that argues for the restoration of indigenous languages in literature and education, presenting language not just as a means of communication, but as a battlefield of power, identity, and liberation. Through his work, Ngũgĩ challenges writers and readers alike to reconsider how deeply colonial structures are embedded in the very words we use to tell our stories.

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Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. The author is Roxane Gay, a fifty years old black woman from the United States of America, she were also a professor at Purdue and Yale.

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Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as a foundational voice in modern African literature. Born in Ogidi in colonial Nigeria, he was shaped by both traditional Igbo culture and Christian missionary influence. He studied at the University of Ibadan, where he became highly critical of Western literature’s portrayal of Africa—particularly works like Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which he challenged for their dehumanizing depictions of Africans.

His debut and most celebrated work, Things Fall Apart (1958), became a landmark in world literature and remains the most studied, translated, and widely read African novel to date. Through the tragic story of Okonkwo—a proud Igbo leader struggling against colonial encroachment and cultural change—Achebe portrays the clash between tradition and transformation. The novel reclaims African dignity by presenting Igbo culture with depth and complexity, countering colonial misrepresentations.

Although often referred to as the “father of modern African literature,” Achebe rejected this label, insisting that he was one of many voices working to reclaim African narratives. Things Fall Apart forms the cornerstone of his “African Trilogy,” followed by No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God, and continues to resonate for its powerful exploration of identity, masculinity, and the disruptive force of colonialism.

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Carolina Maria de Jesus, a Black Brazilian writer 

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Quarto de Despejo by Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Quarto de Despejo by Carolina Maria de Jesus

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The work of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo (1960), can be understood as a postcolonial work because, in it, the author denounces the marks left by colonialism in Brazilian society. Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Black Brazilian writer and waste picker who lived in the Canindé favela in São Paulo. She gained recognition with her book Quarto de Despejo, where she portrayed the harsh reality of life in poverty. Her trajectory is marked by resilience and social criticism. She writes about her reality in the format of a diary, sharing her experiences as a Black woman from the suburbs, using a deeply personal language. Her work denounces the social inequalities that prevail in Brazil and that have their roots in the colonial period.

On this websit you can read this book:

https://dpid.cidadaopg.sp.gov.br/pde/arquivos/1623677495235~Quarto%20de%20Despejo%20-%20Maria%20Carolina%20de%20Jesus.pdf.pdf

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Quarto de Despejo by Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, literary critic and one of the best-known African authors of the 20th century. He is considered a very important figure in African literature. Chinua Achebe wrote about 30 books that portrayed the West's contempt for African civilization and culture. He portrayed African culture in an authentic way, combating colonialist stereotypes.

"Things Fall Apart" was Achebe's first novel, the work was released two years before Nigeria's independence and would be considered one of the most important books in 20th century African literature and considered the founder of modern Nigerian literature.

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The narrative of Wide Sargasso Sea is about Antoinette Cosway, a young Creole woman who lives in Jamaica following the abolition of slavery. She experiences bigotry and rejection from both Black Jamaicans and the British colonists as she grows up in a divided country. When Antoinette marries Edward Rochester, an Englishman, their marriage turns poisonous. She is isolated and her existence is controlled by Rochester, who refers to her as "Bertha." The "madwoman in the attic" from Jane Eyre is brought to England after she has a mental breakdown as a result.

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Alice Walker is an American author, poet, and activist best known for her novel The Color Purple, published in 1982. She was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel, tells the story of Celie, an African American woman in the early 20th century American South, who faces racism, sexism, and abuse through resilience, sisterhood, and self discovery. The book is known for its powerful portrayal of Black women's lives and the themes of empowerment and liberation.

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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

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Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka

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"Death and the King’s Horseman" is a famous play written by Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian author and Nobel Prize winner.

The story is based on a real event in Nigeria during British colonial rule. In the play, after the king dies, it is a tradition that the king’s horseman must also die to follow him into the afterlife.

But the British colonial government tries to stop this, thinking it’s wrong. This creates a big cultural conflict between the British and the Yoruba people.

The play shows the problems caused by colonialism, cultural misunderstanding, and lack of respect for African traditions.

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Conceição Evaristo is a Brazilian writer and poet, born in 1946 in Belo Horizonte. She is one of the most important voices in Afro-Brazilian literature. Her work focuses on the experiences of Black women and marginalized people in Brazilian society. Evaristo created the term “escrevivência,” which means writing from lived experience, especially the experience of Black women. She has won important literary awards, including the Jabuti Prize.

Olhos d’Água (Water Eyes) is a collection of short stories by Conceição Evaristo, published in 2014. The book portrays the lives of Black women living in Brazilian favelas, highlighting their struggles, resilience, and moments of hope. The stories use poetic language to reveal themes of racism, poverty, family, and resistance. It is one of her most recognized works and won the Jabuti Prize in 2015.

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Salman Rushdie is an Indian-British writer known for his blend of magical realism and historical fiction. His novel Midnight’s Children is a landmark in postcolonial literature, exploring India's transition from British rule to independence and partition.

Rushdie’s storytelling is deeply symbolic, intertwining personal and national histories. The novel won the Booker Prize in 1981 and later received the Booker of Bookers award, recognizing it as one of the greatest Booker-winning novels

The novel follows Saleem Sinai, who is born at the exact moment of India's independence on August 15, 1947. He discovers that all children born in India between midnight and 1 a.m. on that day possess supernatural abilities. Saleem, who has telepathic powers, assembles a group called the Midnight’s Children Conference, reflecting India's diverse cultural, linguistic, and political challenges.

Midnight's Children explore themes such as british colonialism, identity and nationality, sex and gender.

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Death and the King's Horseman (1975)- By Wole Soyinka. 

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Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet who was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. A prolific writer, Soyinka has authored 29 plays, two novels, and many memoirs, essays, and poetry collections. After studying and working in the United Kingdom, he became heavily involved in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. In 1965, he seized the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service studio to demand the cancellation of rigged regional elections in western Nigeria. During the Nigerian Civil War, Soyinka was arrested and put in solitary confinement for two years. Soyinka has taught at numerous universities, including Cornell, Emory, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Obafemi Awolowo, and is currently a professor-in -residence at Loyola Marymount University.

The work “Death and the King's Horseman” by Wole Soyinka is an important work for postcolonial literature because it addresses issues related to dramatization of the identity crisis as a disarticulation between subject, culture, and world.

This work features Elesin as its main character the knight Elesin Oba, charged with sacrificing himself to fulfill a ritual of spiritual continuity after the death of the Yoruba king, must carry out this task assigned to him. The play, based on real events in colonial Nigeria, dramatizes the conflict between distinct cultural systems, the Yoruba cosmos and British colonial logic, and how this clash disrupts collective and individual identity (colonizer and colonized).

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Talking about works that show the focus of post-colonial writing, it is certainly necessary to talk about Conceição Evaristo; the author of Olhos d'água shows through this work, certain stories that deal with ancestry, resistance, strength, femininity, motherhood, gender, race, among others. The importance of this work is huge, as it is one of the most important books of Afro-Brazilian literature. During her career, the author lived parts of the themes discussed here. Born on May 29, 1946, she is a renowned intellectual in Brazilian literature, mainly for giving a voice to those in need, winning prestigious awards such as the Jabuti (2015).

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Machado De Assis. Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas

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Machado De Assis. Memórias Póstumas De Brás Cubas

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, a Black Brazilian writer born in 1839 in Rio de Janeiro, was self-taught and one of the greatest names in national literature. He started as a typesetter and proofreader and was the first president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. His work is divided into romantic and realist phases, with The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) being a milestone of realism in Brazil.The novel is narrated by Brás Cubas, a dead man who writes his memoirs with irony, criticizing 19th-century society. With short chapters and sarcastic language, it addresses themes such as social inequality, selfishness, and the futility of life. The narrator interacts with the reader and ends the book with a skeptical view of existence.

The work is recognized for its innovation and social critique, establishing Machado as one of the greatest writers in the world.

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Orientalism is a groundbreaking critique of the Western world’s view and representation of the East. Edward Said's work was published in the 1970s. Although it is not a novel or any other kind of fictional work, this seminal book greatly influenced post-colonial thought.