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nothing is as tender as annotating your favourite books. it’s like leaving a piece of your heart on the pages for somebody else to find.

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I feel like these two paintings tell a story, I'm just not sure what it is yet.

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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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"I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever."

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Dark Academia for Brown People

 Most people, when they think of dark academia is books (that’s the whole point) and ancient languages such as Latin or Ancient Greek. I’m here to tell you that you all are SLEEPING on brown culture. Love that is conveyed in the languages of Persian and Urdu (my native language) crosses borders. Sure, Shakespeare and Sappho wrote great pieces of literature but the stories and poems of Rumi, Manto, Hafez and Iqbal have a special place in my heart. 

Some of my favourites are:- (all are translated)

Sit at my grave with wine and a minstrel in a trance, so your smell will raise me from the dead.
HAFEZ
My lover’s sadness lit a fire in my heart that burned my chest, there was a fire in his house that burned the nest.
HAFEZ
O the day turned night, what a shame, a gazelle of kindness a lion became, my partner and lover grew tired of my words and prayers too.
RUMI

These are my personal favourites. I can always make a longer post if you all want.

Female poets deserve a whole other post.

As someone who goes to an English-Medium school, we are always taught to converse in English, see the language as a part of yourself but deny a place to Urdu. As I grow older, I have come to appreciate my identity and so should all my fellow brown people. Take pride in your mother tongue.

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