Introduction: montage

• Postcolonialism’s relation to the anti-colonial movements: Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016)
• Two Indian introductions to postcolonial theory: Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998); Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015)
• Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto & Windus, 1993)

Chapter 1: Subaltern knowledges

You find yourself a refugee

• Jeremy Harding, Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants out of the Rich World (London: Verso, 2012)
• Elisabeth Leake, The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
• Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano, Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour (London: Hurst, 2016)

Different kinds of knowledge

• Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000)
• Vinay Lal, Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto Press, 2002)
• Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001)
• Linda Tuhiwei Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books, 1999)

Knowledge, politics, and power

• Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977, trans. Colin Gordon (New York: Vintage, 1980)
• Gillian Rose, Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993)
• Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (New York: Vintage Books, 1997)
• Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, 3 vols (New York: Academic Press, 1974–89)

The subaltern and the subaltern woman

• Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989)
• José David Saldívar, Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012)

Languages

• Robert J. C. Young, "That Which is Casually Called a Language," PMLA 131.5 (2016), pp. 1207–21.

Literatures

• Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (London: Verso, 2013)
• Neil Lazarus, The Postcolonial Unconscious (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Chapter 2: Colonialisms, decolonization, decoloniality

• Jerry Brotton, A History of the World in Twelve Maps (New York: Penguin Books, 2014)
• Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, trans Joan Pinkham (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001)
• Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (New York Vintage 2015)
• Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995)
• Ashis Nandy, Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983)
• Robert J. C. Young, "Postcolonial Remains," New Literary History 43.1 (2012), pp. 19–42.

Decoloniality

• Fernando Coronil, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter, eds Julie Skurski et al. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018)
• Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008)
• Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)
• Anibal Quijano, "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality,"Cultural Studies 21.2–3 (2007), pp. 168–78.
• For the internationalist tradition, see: Anne Garland Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018)

Chapter 3: Slavery, race, caste

Race and racism

• George M. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015)
• Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics," Public Culture, 15.1 (2003), pp. 11–40
• Laura Ann Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995)
• Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race (London: Routledge, 1995)

Caste

• Robert Deliège, The Untouchables of India (Oxford: Berg, 1999)
• Anupama Rao, The Caste Question (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009)
• Suraj Yengde, Caste Matters (Delhi: Penguin, 2019)

Chapter 4: History and power, from below and above

Bombing Iraq—since 1920

• James Barr, A Line in the Sand: Britain, France, and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012)
• Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Chapter 5: Nomads, nation-states, borders

• Andro Linklater, Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
• Doreen Massey, For Space (London: Sage Publications, 2005)

Nation-states

• Homi K. Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990)
• Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (London: Zed Books, 1986)
• James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)

Unsettled states: nations and their borders

• Joe Cleary, Literature, Partition and the Nation-state: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines (London: Bloomsbury, 1988)
• Ian Lustick, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993)
• Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (London: James Currey, 1996)

The wall

• Néstor Garcia Canclini, Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity, trans. Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. López (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
• Cetta Mainwaring, At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Todd Miller, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (San Francisco: City Lights, 2017)

Chapter 6: Hybridity

Raï and Islamic social space

• Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music—Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (New York: Pantheon, 2014)
• Jon Lusk and S. Broughton (eds.), The Rough Guide to World Music, Vol. 1 (London: Penguin, 2006)
• Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War 1990–1998 (London: Hurst, 2000)

Chapter 7: The ambivalence of the veil

• David C. Gordon, Women of Algeria: An Essay on Change (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968)
• Sarah Graham-Brown, Images of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East, 1860–1950 (London: Quartet, 1988)
• Neil MacMaster, Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the ‘Emancipation’ of Muslim Women, 1954–62 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)
• Subcomandante Marcos, Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995)

Chapter 8: Gender, queering, and feminism in a postcolonial context

• Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan, eds, Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York: New York University Press, 2002)
• Joseph A. Massad, Desiring Arabs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres, eds, Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991)
• Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira, Queer in the Tropics: Gender and Sexuality in the Global South (Cham: Springer, 2019)

Women’s movements after independence

• Hind Wassef and Nadia Wassef, eds, Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women’s Movements, 1900–1960 (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001)

What makes postcolonial feminism ‘postcolonial’?

• Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
• Gisèle Halimi, Avocate irrespectueuse (Paris: Plon, 2002)
• Saba Mahmoud, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011)

Chapter 9: Globalization from a postcolonial perspective

• Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)
• Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate (London: Flamingo, 2002)
• John Madeley, Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World’s Poor (London: Zed Books, 1999)
• John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World (London: Verso, 2002)
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, Caliban and Other Essays, trans. Edward Baker (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1989)
• Ken Saro-Wiwa, Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy (London: Saros International Publishers, 1992)
• Robert J. C. Young, “Dangerous and Wrong”: Shell, Intervention, and the Politics of Transnational Companies," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1.3 (1999), pp. 439–64

Chapter 10: Ecology and indigeneity

• Saliha Belmessous, ed., Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
• Ken S. Coates, A Global History of Indigenous Peoples: Struggle and Survival (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011)

Feminism and ecology

• Narmada dam: http://www.narmada.org
• The Greenbelt movement: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/
• Luiz C. Barbosa, Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development (New York: Routledge, 2017)
• Elizabeth Deloughrey, Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
• Mary Mellor, Feminism and Ecology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997)
• Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, ed. Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, trans. Ann Wright (London: Verso, 1984)
• Vandana Shiva, in association with J. Bandyopadhyay et al., Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts over Natural Resources in India (New Delhi: Sage, 1991)

Chapter 11: Translation

• Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, Post-Colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (London: Routledge, 1999)
• Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972)