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cultural academia pt. 2

here’s pt. 1

This is a continuation of spreading cultural books to end eurocentrism in academia. There’s definitely more “dark academia” books that fit the aesthetic this time around! Thank you to everyone who added books in the notes of the first post- I just put all those suggestions together in this list so complete credit to everyone who made these suggestions <3

Chinese: 

Shen Congwen

Geling Yan

From Emperor to Citizen 

Life and Death in Shanghai by Niem Cheng

Jin Ping Mei by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

Japanese:

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Sonezaki Shinju by Chikamatsu Monzaemon

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami

Works of Oe

Tosa Nikki by Ki no Tsurayuki

Torikaebaya Monogatari 

Ise Monogatari by Ariwara  no Narihira

A Fool’s Love by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro

The Golden Death by  Tanizaki Jun’ichiro

Hell Scene

I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki

The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Edogawa Ranpo

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

Flower Tales by Yoshiya Nobuko

Books of Hayashi Fumiko

Books of Enchi Fumiko

The Demon’s Sermon on the Marrial Arts by Issao Chozanshi

Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

Fool’s Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Thai:

Garin’s Uncanny Files

Irani/Persian:

Disoriental by Negar Djavadi

Mesopotamia:

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Pakistani:

Poetry of Allama Iqbal

Works of Saadat Hassan Manto

My Feudal Lordand Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani

The Reluctant Fundmamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia

Four Tragic Romances of Punjab (Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiba, Sassi Punnun, and Sohni Mahiwal)

The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa

Indian:

Ramayana by Valmiki

Nonviolent Soldier of Islam by Eknath Easwaran

The Wildlings by Nilanjana Roy

Sivagamiyin Sapatham by Kalki Krishnamurthy

Chitralekha

Chandralekha

Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories

Works of Satyajit Rai

Byomkesh Bakshi

Munshi Premchand (Godan, Gaban, Nirmala)

The River Sutra

Mehlua

(comics)

Nagraj

Chacha Choudhary

Lotpot

Champak

Nandan

Vikram Betal

(poets)

The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu

Gitanjali

Works of Ruskin Bond

Mahadevi Verma

Hajari Prasad Divedi

Arabian:

Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail (he lived in Al-Andalus but was Arab I believe)

Filipino:

Works of Nick Joaquin

Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan

The Eight Muses of the Fall By Edgar Calabia Samar

Isabelo’s Archive by Resil B. Mojares

Noli Me Tangere by Dr. Jose Rizal 

El Filibusterismo by Dr. Jose Rizal

Indonesian:

Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Saman by Ayu Utami

The Years of the Voiceless 

Beauty is Wound by Eka Kurniawan

Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan

(poets)

Sapardi Djoko Darmono

Chairil Anwar

Sustardji Calzoum Bachri

W.S. Rendra

Taufik Ismail 

Wiji Thukul

NH Dini 

Dee Lestari

Mira W.

Malaysian:

Garden of Evening Mists

Brazilian:

O Ateneu by Raul Pompeia

Ursula by Maria Firmino

The Hidden Cause; The Alienist by Machado de Assis (short stories)

The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto

Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos

Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus

Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha

Macunaima by Mario de Andrade

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado

Captain of the Sands by Jorge Amado

Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna 

City of God by Paulo Lins

Budapest by Chico Buarque

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis

Poems by Vinicius de Moraes

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

Antologia Poetica by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Senhora by Jose de Alencar

Colombian:

Works of William Ospina

Chilean:

Works of Isabelle Allende

Mexican: 

Poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Laura Esquivel

El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata Quiroz

(authors)

Gerardo Murillo

Ruben M Campos

Maria Enriqueta Camarillo de Pereya

Aura by Carlos Fuentes

El Llano by Juan Rulfo

La Casa Junto Al Rio by Elena Garro

Amparo Davila

Guadalipe Duenas

Ines Arredondo

Fransisco Tario

Max Aub

Bernado Couto Castillo

Amado Nervo

Adriana Diaz Enciso

Emiliano Gonzalez

H. Pascal (poetry of vampires and ghosts)

Tequila Gotico: Literatura Gotica en Mexico (published in magazine/good intro to gothic lit in Mexico)

Argentinian:

The Invention  of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato

Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

Nigerian:

Americanah by Chimamanda Adiche

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo 

Malian:

Fatoumata Keita

Senegalese:

Amadou Kane 

Cheik Anta Diop

Sudanese:

Season of Migration to the North

Native American:

Works of Leslie Marmon Silko

Canadian:

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Ghanan-Canadian)

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (Indigenous Canadian-Ojibwe)

Birdie by Tracie Lindberg (Indigenous Canadian-Cree)

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican-Canadian)

British:

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Jamaican-British)

American:

Works of Gwendolyn Brooks

Works of Langston Hughes

A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava (Colombian-American)

Once again, if your country wasn’t included, that doesn’t mean it’s not important!! Please continue to add more books with their countries in the notes and correct me if I’ve made a mistake!!

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LITERATURE

House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic (1996)

"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction (2013)

WALKING ALONE TOGETHER: FAMILY MONSTERS IN "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" (2014)

"Some-are like My Own—": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment (2004)

A CIRCUMFERENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON (1973)

TWO WOMEN: THE STUDY OF THE DEATH THEME IN EMILY DICKINSON AND EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1967)

ECCENTRICITIES IN EMILY DICKINSON'S NATURE POETRY (1986)

Presence and Place in Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1984)

The Development of Dickinson's Style (1988)

The Riddles of Emily Dickinson (1978)

Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale (1994)

Forced, Forbidden and Rejected Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2006)

“TWO LEGGED WOMBS”: SURROGACY AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2019)

“I AM A NATURAL RESOURCE”: THE ECONOMY OF COMMODIFICATION IN ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2011)

The Ambiguity of Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2010)

Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque (2010)

IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? — BIBLICAL INTERTEXT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1993)

The Eye as Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk (1978)

The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club" (2007)

Historicizing Japan's Abject Femininity: Reading Women's Bodies in "Nihon ryōiki" (2013)

THEATRE

"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)

"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)

"Service" in King Lear (1958)

In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)

See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)

“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)

"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)

The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)

FILM

Review: Reservoir Dogs (1993)

A Slice of Delirium: Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" Revisited (1995)

Review: Taxi Driver (1976)

TAXI DRIVER (1976)

Docufictions: An Interview with Martin Scorsese on Documentary Film (2007)

AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES (1984)

Anatomy of the "Prick Flick": TAKING THE MEASURE OF MANLY MOVIES (2017)

Films: All the President's Men at the ABC (1976)

Back to the Future: The Humanist "Matrix" (2003)

RE-WRITING "REALITY": READING "THE MATRIX" (2000)

Bringing Love to the Screen (Interview with James Laxton) (2020)

INTERVIEW WITH BARRY JENKINS (2016)

Chasing Fae: "The Watermelon Woman" and Black Lesbian Possibility (2000)

Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977)

Sidney Lumet's Humanism: The Return to the Father in "Twelve Angry Men" (1986)

Intensified Continuity Visual Style in Contemporary American Film (2002)

LOVE AND THEFT (Shoplifters) (2018)

Notes on the Split-Field Diopter (2007)

Positive Images & the Coming out Film: THE ART AND POLITICS OF GAY AND LESBIAN CINEMA (2000)

Rock 'n' Roll Sound Tracks and the Production of Nostalgia (1999)

The Sounds of Silence: Songs in Hollywood Films since the 1960s (2002)

The Godfather Saga (1978)

"Plastics": "The Graduate" as Film and Novel (1985)

The New Wave's American Reception (2010)

OTHER

Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: "Vestiges of Creation," Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain (2001)

Movement, knowledge, emotion: Gay activism and HIV/AIDS in Australia (2011)

On the Trail of the "Witches:" Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts (1987)

"Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power (2010)

Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence (1988)

Feminist Food Studies: A Brief History

A modern day holy anorexia? Religious language in advertising and anorexia nervosa in the West (2003)

Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1985)

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920 (1995)

Women, piety and practice: A study of women and religious practice in Malaysia (2008)

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a crash crash course on the golden age of hollywood

to state the obvious, this is not meant to be a be all end all guide. it’s just a start for people who wanna know more about some of the essentials of the era. there’s plenty of people and movies i didn’t include but at least now you can listen to vogue and understand all the references.

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I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

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This is part 1 of a few on dystopia that I’ll be publishing every Monday because I find it incredibly interesting that we are so fascinated by societies that are going horribly wrong.

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i’ve compiled a huge google drive folder of anarchist, socialist, feminist, anti-colonial, anti-imperial books+ essays, crip + disability theory, queer theory, critical race theory, film theory, transnational + diaspora trauma study essays, and writings that combine all of the above

some essays i’ve got from school, most of the books and some essays r from beautiful people on the internet

to be updated as often as i get more shit. which is fairly often~

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Black Feminism & Abolition

if you want to actually engage with intersectional feminism & what abolition really means, this is your homework:

Angela Davis - “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

Ruth Wilson Gilmore - “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California”

Angela Davis - “Abolition Democracy”

Angela Davis - “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”

“If They Come in the Morning… Voices of Resistance”

Carole Boyce Davies - “Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones”

Safiya Bukhari - “The War Before”

Patrice Douglass - “Black Feminist Theory for the Dead and Dying”

Patrice Douglass & Frank B Wilderson - “The Violence of Presence: Metaphysics in a Blackened World”

“Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?”

Evelyn Hammond - “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality”

Sadiya Hartman - “Seduction and the Ruses of Power”

Sadiya Hartman - “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route”

Audre Lorde - “Sister Outsider”

Audre Lorde - “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

bell hooks - “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators”

Michelle S Jacobs - “Black Women’s Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence”

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

Assata Shakur - “Women in Prison: How We Are”

Assata Shakur - “Assata: An Autobiography”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective”

Zoe Samudzi & William C Anderson - “As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation”

this is a curated list of texts that i find the most helpful for illustrating why we all should also be abolitionists. the bolded are the ones i’ve found the most helpful thus far. & reminder to buy the books when you can, preferably from independent / leftist / black-owned bookstores… and see what you can find at your local library! keep these works in circulation!

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winter book recommendations ❄️

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin

buy me a coffee

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a list of cool websites, with the topic gradually changed:

Library of Short Stories - A free and accessible collection of short stories from the public domain.

Global Grey ebooks - Free ebook downloads on a wide range of topics.

Weird Old Book Finder - A search tool that responds with one public domain book at a time.

Oldest Search - Search for the oldest results on the internet.

Deletionpedia - A wiki for articles deleted from Wikipedia.

Killed by Microsoft - A graveyard for the discontinued.

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book recs masterpost

an ever-updating masterpost of books i've recommended. please check these before you ask for recommendations in case they've been covered —

fiction

"the tragedy still happened, but it was important that the love was there"

japanese literature

korean literature [1], [2]

gothic writing

spooky adult horror gothic

some favourites

marathi books

some ruskin bond

indian fiction [1], [2], historical fiction, stories, [3], [4]

non-fiction

general assorted ones i like

some favourites

about people living through crises

on geopolitics, foreign policy, international affairs

on political philsophy

vaguely sociology

biographies

on economic history

on the silk route

on prisons, convict labour

on afghanistan, soviet invasion, terror

capitalism

on language and linguistics

on the ancient and prehistoric world

just a bunch on india

the indus valley

indian aestheticism, art

gupta empire

sangam literature

on the northeast

india and southeast asia

nur jahan, mughal women | more

islamic conquest and state-making

on kashmir

assorted nonfiction

colonisation and aftereffects

on nationalism

on cities

on mumbai

on bollywood in bombay

on cities

on delhi

on kolkata

essays

history, migration, labour

art, reading, travel, gender, sports

nature, climate, some history

political economy, environmental and urban history, cartography and space

my comfort books

light reading

books that have got me out of my slumps

on art, photography, aesthetics, design [1], [2], [3]

on the environment

just some story and essay collections

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