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Mark Crinson’s book, Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (1996), explores how racial theories, along with political and religious motives, influenced British architects and how Eastern concepts impacted Western architecture.
Okwui Enwezor edited The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994 (2001), a compilation of writings and visuals. This collection includes essays, studies, speeches, manifestos, and photographs that document Africa’s cultural and political history from 1945 to 1994, providing insights into the ideologies that shaped the continent during this period.
Andrew Gurr’s Writers in Exile: The Identity of Home in Modern Literature (1981) defines “exile” as a characteristic of literature from West Indian, African, Australian, and New Zealand authors writing in English. The book reviews many prominent writers from these regions.
In 2000, Oxford University Press published World Cinema: Critical Approaches, edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson. This anthology features essays on global cinema, with a significant focus on postcolonial countries. Topics include national cinema concepts, East Central European cinema, Anglophone national cinemas, and African cinema.
George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile (1960) recounts his experiences as a West Indian in London. It includes his famous essay on Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, which raises questions about literary canons, exile, and the dynamic between the cultural center and the periphery.
Albert Memmi’s The Colonizer and the Colonized (1965) is an early sociological examination of the harmful effects of colonialism on both colonizers and the colonized.
In Missionaries in India (1998), Arun Shourie critiques the deliberate misinterpretations of Hinduism by Christian missionaries and examines the negative impacts these distortions have had on India.
Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel, Almanac of the Dead (1991), is arguably her most provocative work. Silko tackles numerous issues concerning American Indians, including the European conquest of indigenous peoples.
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