Thanks Mohsen. Last night I bought Kader Abdolah's My Father's Notebook. It claims to be "A Novel of Iran." Have you read it?

You might want to use Things Fall Apart by Achebe. A novel dealing with the changing taking place in the colony (Nigeria) upon the arrival of the Colonizer, but a significant one for a Postcolonial course.

Purple Ibyscus by Ngozi Adichie, or her Half of a Yellow Sun, or again her The things Around Your Neck. Are good examples of postcolonial assessment of the experience of African States after Independence. But the most challenging book is Soyinka's The Interpreters.

Being a Philipino, you mith want to start with The Poem by the Rudyard Kipling The Burden of the white Man which is about the Philipines colonisation by the USA in 1921 (although this is only a poem). But is sets up the Ethos of the Postcolonial Writers who all condemned the colonial intrusion.

The Beautyful Ones are Yet Born, (Awke Armah) is a typical example of a postcolonial novel criticising the Rulers who took over.

Okot M'bitek's the Song of Lawino is also another intersting text to use for that purpose.

Among the Novels that deal with the colonial experience from a Western point of view, you could use Passag to India, (Forster).

The reason why all these novels are useful comes from the fact that most of them are written after the independence except for Things Fall Apart and the Kipling Poem. That is why also they figure as postcolonial texts.

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I've used Things Fall Apart and the Kipling poem before, and I've already read some of the other texts like Passage to India, so I'll try to read your other suggestions and see how they can fit in to the course. Here are other texts I'm also considering, in case you're interested:

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (Dominican Republic/USA)

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar (Algeria)

School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (Philippines)

Dogeaters by Jessica Haggedorn (Philippines)

For further information on this topic, Consult with [email protected]. He had just completed a very wonderful Phd Dissertation, Worth publishing on Nation and Narration using voices of the immigrant groups in Europe, and America.

Sir,'Shadow Lines' by Amitav Ghosh is an excellent example of postcolonial style of writing...and can be related even at a the thematic level..

The African Novels is a good post colonial course. Consider Ayi Kwe Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

Hola Karl! :) what about One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia, more metonymic) and/or The House of Spirits (Chile, more literal and maybe somehow parallel to Dogeaters)?