The sixth meeting was on Saturday the 27th of June.
This session’s essay can be found here or in pdf form.
Curious about the next one? You can find out via the general WONDROUS CALS Book Club page.
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Revisiting Colonial History
The stories written by the empires that colonised large parts of the words often reduced the humanity of the people they subjected, erased the cultures they destroyed and ravaged the landscapes they exploited. Postcolonial literature is the field of studying these narratives and the counter-narratives that appeared to rectify the image of colonised people. Without understanding the crimes and cruelty of these systems, modern conflicts cannot be fully understood.
Required reading: none!
Short read: The Ultra-Black Fish by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (found here and here)
Longer read: The Rabbits by Shaun Tan.
Extra Reading: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Black Lake / Oeroeg by Hella Haasse.