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Post-colonial Literature

  • Charlotte Brontë
    1816 BCE

    Charlotte Brontë

    She was an English novelist and poet.
  • Shakespeare
    Apr 1, 1564

    Shakespeare

    Shakespeare was born in the United Kingdom
  • Sonnets and tragedies
    Dec 24, 1579

    Sonnets and tragedies

    Among the most important works of Shakespeare we can found "Macbeth", "Othelo", "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Hamlet"
  • Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe

    He was born in London
  • Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    Defoe was an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for being the author of Robinson Crusoe
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    By Charlotte Brontë
  • Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad

    He was a Polish-British novelist
  • Mansfield Brith

    Mansfield Brith

    Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand.
  • Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys

    She was born in Dominica a Caribbean island. She spend part of her life in England.
  • Heart of darkness

    Heart of darkness

    A novel about imperialism and racism. By Joseph Conrad
  • 1910-1911

    As a result of her lonely period of six months in Germany Katherine wrote short stories which were published at that time.
  • "The Woman at the Store"

    Her impressions of a camp were encapsulated in this short story
  • Mansfield moves to England

    Mansfield moves to England

    Katherine moved to England at the age of 19 and made her reputation as a writer for the work "Bliss"
  • Mansfield Death

    She died because of a disease in France.
  • Derek Walcott

    Derek Walcott

    He was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia.
  • Chinua Achebe

    Chinua Achebe

    He was born in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria.
  • Walcott's Debut

    At the age of 18 he makes his debut with "25 Poems"
  • "Things Fall Apart"

    "Things Fall Apart"

    In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages.
  • Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Tsitsi Dangarembga

    She was born in Zimbabwe but most of her education was in England.
  • 1960-1966

    1960-1966

    Achebe wrote the novels No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of the People (1966), all of which address the issue of traditional ways of life coming into conflict with new, often colonial, points of view.
  • In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1962

    In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1962

    His breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962) a book typical of his early poetry in its celebration of the Caribbean landscape's natural beauty.
  • Wide Sargasso Sea

    Wide Sargasso Sea

    A prequel to the novel Jane Eyre of Brontë.
  • Citadel Press

    In 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for a new kind of African-oriented children's books.
  • Shae

  • Nervous conditions

    Nervous conditions

    Written by Dangarembga
  • Nobel Prize

    Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment"
  • The T. S. Eliot Prize

    Walcott won the T. S. Eliot Prize for his work in "White Egrets"
  • Chinua Achebe Death

    He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Team

    Team

    Abel López, Betty Sánchez, Fer Hernández and Lore Urbina