Postcolonial Literature and Criticism
  • Achebe, Chinua. Girls at War, and Other Stories. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973. Print.
  • ---. Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. N.p., 1989. Print.
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.
  • Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London; New York: Verso, 1992. Print.
  • Appiah, Anthony, and Allen R Grossman. In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.
  • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London; New York: Routledge, 1989. Print.
  • Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London; New York: Routledge, 1994. Print.
  • Brennan, Timothy. Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Print.
  • Césaire, Aimé, and Robin D. G Kelley. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. Print.
  • Chatterjee, Partha. “Secularism and Tolerance.” Secularism and Its Critics. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 345–379. Print.
  • Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Print.
  • Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions: A Novel. New York: Seal Press : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, 1989. Print.
  • Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. Print.
  • Ekwensi, Cyprian. People of the City. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1963. Print.
  • Emecheta, Buchi. Second-Class Citizen. New York: G. Braziller, 1975. Print.
  • Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]: Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2008. Print.
  • ---. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965. Print.
  • Ghosh, Amitav. River of Smoke. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print.
  • Gordimer, Nadine. The Conservationist. New York: Viking Press, 1975. Print.
  • Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003. 233–246. Print.
  • Hall, Stuart, and Paul Du Gay. Questions of Cultural Identity. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. Print.
  • Mahāśvetā Debī, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Imaginary maps: three stories. New York: Routledge, 1995. Print.
  • Mbembe, Achille. “Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola.” Research in African Literatures 34.4 (2003): 1–26. Print.
  • ---. On the Postcolony. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Open WorldCat. Web. 6 Nov. 2014.
  • Mbembe, Achille, and Libby Meintjes. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15.1 [39] (2003): 11–40. Print.
  • Mbembe, Achille, and Steven Rendall. “African Modes of Self-Writing.” Public Culture 14.1 [36] (2002): 239–273. Print.
  • Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Print.
  • Mudimbe, V. Y. The Idea of Africa. Bloomington; London: Indiana University Press ; J. Currey, 1994. Print.
  • Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1979. Print.
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London; Portsmouth, N.H.: J. Currey ; Heinemann, 1986. Print.
  • ---. Devil on the Cross. London: Heinemann, 1982. Print.
  • ---. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. London; Portsmouth, N.H.: J. Currey ; Heinemann, 1992. Print.
  • ---. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Toward a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.
  • Said, Edward. “Secular Criticism.” The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. 1–30. Print.
  • Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993. Print.
  • ---. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. Print.
  • Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England; New York, USA: Longman, 1994. Print.
  • Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy: A Novel. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993. Print.
  • Soyinka, Wole. Art, Dialogue, and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Print.
  • ---. Myth, Literature, and the African World. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Print.
  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Death of a Discipline. New York; Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2005. Print.
  • ---. Outside in the Teaching Machine. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.
Gender and Sexuality
  • Alexander, M. Jacqui, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.
  • Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987. Print.
  • Arndt, Susan. The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African-Feminist Literatures. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2002. Print.
  • Bell, David, and Jon. Binnie. The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and beyond. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity ; Blackwell Publishers, 2000. Print.
  • Benedicto, Bobby. Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Print.
  • Brandzel, Amy L. “Queering Citizenship? Same-Sex Marriage and the State.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.2 (2005): 171–204. Print.
  • Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge, 2014. Print.
  • Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. [S.l.]: Routledge, 2014. Print.
  • ---. Undoing Gender. New York; London: Routledge, 2004. Print.
  • Dasgupta, Shamita Das. A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Print.
  • Dave, Naisargi N. Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Print.
  • D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Print.
  • Duggan, Lisa. “The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism.” Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics. Ed. Russ Castranovo and Dana D. Nelson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. 175–194. Print.
  • Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Print.
  • Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Print.
  • Garcia, J. Neil C. Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2008. Print.
  • Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Durham [u.a.]: Duke Univ. Press, 2006. Print.
  • Hoad, Neville Wallace. African Intimacies Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Open WorldCat. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
  • Jagose, Annamarie. Queer Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Print.
  • Johnson, E. Patrick, and Mae Henderson. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Print.
  • Linmark, R. Zamora. Leche: A Novel. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2011. Print.
  • Luibhéid, Eithne. “Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line between Legal and Illegal Status.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14.2 (2008): 289–315. Print.
  • Martin, Karen. Queer Africa. New and Collected Fiction. Modajaji Books, 2013. Print.
  • Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2003. Print.
  • Newton, Esther. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Print.
  • ---. Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Print.
  • Nyong’o, Tavia. “Queer Africa and the Fantasy of Virtual Participation.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 40.1 (2012): 40–63. Project MUSE. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
  • Puar, Jasbir K. “Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8.1 (2002): 101–137. Print.
  • Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Print.
  • Rubin, Gayle. “Sexual Transformations.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. 889–891. Print.
  • Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Print.
  • Silva, Neluka. The Gendered Nation Contemporary Writings from South Asia. New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2004. Open WorldCat. Web. 27 Sept. 2013.
  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. 271–313. Print.
  • ---. Other Asias. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008. Print.
  • ---. “Scattered Speculations on the Subaltern and the Popular.” Postcolonial Studies 8.4 (2005): 475–486. EBSCOhost. Web. 12 June 2014.
  • Vaid, Urvashi. Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics. New York, NY: Magnus Books, 2012. Print.
  • Vanita, Ruth. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. Print.
  • Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. New York: Free Press, 1999. Print.
  • Weston, Kath. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007. Print.
Transnational Literature
  • Abani, Christopher. GraceLand. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. Print.
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. London: Fourth Estate, 2013. Print.
  • Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free Press, 2008. Print.
  • Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Print.
  • ---. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. London: New York : Verso Books, 2013. Print.
  • Apter, Emily S. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. New York: Verso, 2013. Print.
  • Briggs, Laura, Gladys McCormick, and J. T. Way. “Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis.” American Quarterly 60.3 (2008): 625–648. Project MUSE. Web. 13 May 2015.
  • Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names: A Novel. New Yok: Reagan Arthur Books, 2013. Print.
  • Chow, Rey. “Against the Lures of Diaspora.” Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. London: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003. 163–183. Print.
  • Cole, Teju. Open City: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2011. Print.
  • Das Gupta, Monisha. Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Print.
  • Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Print.
  • Dimock, Wai-chee, and Lawrence Buell. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Print.
  • Dirlik, Arif. Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2007. Print.
  • Fluck, Winfried, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe. “Introduction: Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn.” Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2011. 1–48. Print.
  • Gates, Henry Louis, and W. J. T Mitchell. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.
  • Gilroy, Paul. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. Print.
  • ---. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993. Print.
  • Grewal, Inderpal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Print.
  • Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata. Dogeaters. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1991. Print.
  • Jameson, Fredric. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.” Social Text 15 (1986): 65–88. JSTOR. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
  • Jameson, Fredric, and Masao Miyoshi. The Cultures of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Print.
  • Lionnet, Françoise, and Shumei Shi. The Creolization of Theory. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, 2011. Print.
  • Lowe, Lisa. “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. 1031–1050. Print.
  • Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Print.
  • Radhakrishnan, R. Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Print.
  • Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2005. Print.
  • ---. The Satanic Verses. New York, N.Y.: Viking, 1989. Print.
  • Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go. New York: Penguin Press, 2013. Print.
  • Smith, Zadie. NW. New York: Penguin Press, 2012. Print.
  • ---. White Teeth: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2000. Print.
  • Walkowitz, Rebecca L. “The Location of Literature: The Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer.” Contemporary Literature 47.4 (2006): 527–545. Project MUSE. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.