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— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique
Cultural Dark Academia
After my last post about the lack of representation in academia, I felt it neccessary to provide some examples of what I’m talking about. Obviously there are more countries in the world than I can list and provide books for, so for a quick list this is what I got. !! Keep researching !! If you have any more books by POC please reply them !! If a country isn’t listed, that doesn’t mean it’s not important, this is just what I could get together real quick. If I made any mistakes, please let me know, we’re all learning. We need to help each other end eurocentrism in academia, so value representation and educate yourselves 💓💓💓
Chinese:
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Dream of the Red Chamber
- The Water Margin
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- The Journey to the West
- The Scholars
- The Peony Pavilion
- Border Town by Congwen Shen
- Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
- To Live by Yu Hua
- Ten Years of Madness by agent Jicai
- The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong
Japanese:
- A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë
Pakistani:
- Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
- Ghulam Bagh by Mirza Athar Baig
- Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K. C. Kanda
Irani/Persian:
- Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
- Savushun by Simin Daneshvar
- Anything by Rumi
- The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi
- The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
- Shahnameh (translation by Dick Davis)
Afghan:
- Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Indian:
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Aithihyamala, Garland of Legends by Kottarathil Sankunni
- The Gameworld Trilogy by Samir Basu
Filipino:
- Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca
- The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai
Brazilian:
- Night at the Tavern by Álvares de Azevedo
- The Seven by André Vianco
- Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Colombian:
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Delirio by Laura Restrepo
- ¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo
- The Sound of Things Falling by Jim Gabriel Vásquez
Mexican:
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya
- Adonis Garcia/El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata
- El Complot Mongol by Rafael Bernal
Egyptian:
- The Cairo Trilogy by Nahuib Mahfouz
- The Book of the Dead
Nigerian:
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Malian:
- The Epic of Sundiata
Senegalese:
- Poetry of Senghor
Native American:
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Starlight by Richard Wagamese
- Almanac of the Dead by L. Silko
- Fools Crow by James Welch
Australian Aborigine:
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
- First Footprints by Scott Cane
- My Place by Sally Morgan
American//Modern:
- Real Life by Brandon Taylor
- Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Internment by Samir’s Ahmed
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson
- Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch
“Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell