Hello there,
I’m looking for novels with a colonial setting, contemporary novels written by people from that era who would have had some idea of what it was like back then. Preferably British Empire colonialism, but all ideas are welcome.
To my knowledge I am currently aware of/have read the following books. Please recommend books written by different authors to the ones listed here as I am likely already aware of their other contributions.
A few of these books (Ceremony, Potiki) bend the truth a little. They aren’t directly about the colonial experience but are about the clash of European and non-European cultures. So I am also open to semi-colonial literature like that too if you can think it’d be a good read. All of them — without exception — are contemporary though, the authors have experienced something like what they wrote about.
Here’s what I have so far:
A Grain of Wheat, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Burmese Days, George Orwell
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
Greenmantle, John Buchan
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Potiki, Patricia Grace
Red Strangers, Elspeth Huxley
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
The First Man, Albert Camus
The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Thank you!
Edit: unsure why I cannot make the text un-bold. The button doesn't appear to be working. Sorry about this!
