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Cultural Dark Academia

After my last post about the lack of representation in academia, I felt it neccessary to provide some examples of what I’m talking about. Obviously there are more countries in the world than I can list and provide books for, so for a quick list this is what I got. !! Keep researching !! If you have any more books by POC please reply them !! If a country isn’t listed, that doesn’t mean it’s not important, this is just what I could get together real quick. If I made any mistakes, please let me know, we’re all learning. We need to help each other end eurocentrism in academia, so value representation and educate yourselves 💓💓💓

Chinese:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Dream of the Red Chamber

The Water Margin

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Journey to the West

The Scholars

The Peony Pavilion

Border Town by Congwen Shen

Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang

To Live by Yu Hua

Ten Years of Madness by agent Jicai

The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong

Japanese:

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë

Pakistani:

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Ghulam Bagh by Mirza Athar Baig

Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K. C. Kanda

Irani/Persian:

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar

Anything by Rumi

The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi

The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam

Shahnameh (translation by Dick Davis)

Afghan:

Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Indian:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Aithihyamala, Garland of Legends by Kottarathil Sankunni

The Gameworld Trilogy by Samir Basu

Filipino:

Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca

The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai

Brazilian:

Night at the Tavern by Álvares de Azevedo

The Seven by André Vianco

Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis

Portuguese:

The Lusiads by Camões

Columbian:

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Delirio by Laura Restrepo

¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo

The Sound of Things Falling by Jim Gabriel Vásquez

Mexican:

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya

Adonis Garcia/El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata

El Complot Mongol by Rafael Bernal

Egyptian:

The Cairo Trilogy by Nahuib Mahfouz

The Book of the Dead

Nigerian:

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Malian:

The Epic of Sundiata

Senegalese:

Poetry of Senghor

Native American:

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Starlight by Richard Wagamese

Almanac of the Dead by L. Silko

Fools Crow by James Welch

Australian Aborigine:

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

First Footprints by Scott Cane

My Place by Sally Morgan

American//Modern:

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Internment by Samir’s Ahmed

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson

Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch

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“𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗.”

— 𝐆𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐲

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God of the northern wind.

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wonder woman

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Some MCU aesthetics

#aesthetic #mine #moodboard #my edit #marvel #mcu #comics #peggy carter #tony stark #iron man #rhodey #james rhodes #warmachine #captain america #steve rogers #thor #hulk #bruce banner #black widow #natasha romanov #clint barton #hawkeye #captain marvel #carol danvers #sam wilson #falcon

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𝑨𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐

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trans gay pirate 🏴‍☠️

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Slovakia

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Mongolia

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Thailand

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Wales

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Bolivia

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𝑨𝑹𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 ↣ Wales

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The Signs and Legends II:

Aries: A people torn asunder by war over the ashes of their god-king. A fragile and tired peace. Grand bridges destroyed by the giants who built them. Tales across the dune seas, beyond the asundergrowth. Tales of an ancient and forbidden city at the waterfall valley, the oldest and greatest of its kind. 

Taurus: A great and powerful king known as the architect. A lifelong infatuation with the builders of old, with their mountain temples and yawning stone aeries. A palace commissioned in their style in the hopes of gleaning new wisdom. Legends of the ancient and hungry thing that returned home to roost. 

Gemini: A young solider, captured by the enemy, an impossible game of marksmanship for her release. Victory. The goddess of the hunt who took up the challenge herself. A star knocked from the very sky. The crossbow made from it.

Cancer: The poet with the feather in her cap. A life of travel and adventure, countless lines of romance learned and translated, all for a dream of the true language of love. Tales of trysts with queens and bandits and soldiers alike. 

Leo: A corrupt and heretical priest, strangled in a fit of righteous fury with a thorned rose vine. Prostration before a loving god. A mantle of heretical miracles, to be wielded only against  the apostates who would twist the divine will for their own gain. Thorns of iron dig into the flesh. A reminder. 

Virgo: Whalers returning with wide-eyed tales of the colossal thing that broke from the clouds and stole their catch. For the first time in generations, the tundra goes silent for the lowing of sacred horns. 

Libra: An uncharted island deep in an old and churning sea. Strange creatures and alien wildlife, evolving untold in years of isolation. Explorers and scientists climbing to the peak of the untouched jungle plateau, only to be met with one of the old whistling stones. A path marker of a forgotten people.

Scorpio: A young man sat in the imperial study, secret sacred tomes spread across his desk by candlelight. In a rough hand he carves the symbols of arcane calculus, shaping the block of fine wood into a prosthetic for his wounded mother.

Ophiuchus: The loom mother is long gone, but still her children’s children know how listen to the hatchlings, to hear them whisper of the secrets of herbs and stones. An empire built sulfur, silk, and saltpeter. 

Sagittarius: An abandoned castle town. The site of an old atrocity. The market square where the mass graves were dug. The fruitless crimson tree that grew there. The sound of creaking wood in the night. 

Capricorn: A great and powerful king. A man who built an empire.. Effigies carved into the rock of the great harbor. Epics of conquest still sung in the great halls. A legacy of untarnished glory, until the necromancers dug him up, and learned it was all a lie.

Aquarius: They say the college goes back to before the second era. That it used to be a monastery, that the library goes deep, deeper than the librarians say. The truth is that even the librarians didnt know what wandered the endless frozen sub-basements. How could they?

Pisces: Nobody remembers the people that lived here. Nobody even remembers their name. The roads through this place haven’t been maintained in centuries. Nobody remembers the people who lived here, but their god still stalks these old woods.

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The Signs and Knights V:

Aries: Elite knights of a nomadic people. The warhammers forged with a checkered head reminiscent of a butchers tools, symbolic as they are practical.

Taurus: Sappers of an isolated jungle kingdom. Fine cloth and scaled plate. Blades in strange shapes meant to curve past defenses. Myths of unweildly throwing daggers that climb over shields. 

Gemini: The garrison lost along with the mine. Centuries in the dark, bone and steel suspended in crystal. The faint light of some ineffable will shimmering as the corpses move.

Cancer: A knight in funerary amarinthine scans the water as the ferryman fords the river of the dead. Men are buried with two coins now. 

Leo: War widows to a fragile peace. Swords bare of the colorful cloth that denotes rank. Peasant clothing worn in the style of the old warriors. The passing soldiers do not meet their eyes.

Virgo: Rumors too tall to be believed. A bandit chieftain in discordant stolen armor, a nicked and battle-scarred sword-spear in one hand, and in the other, the reins of some impossible thing with wings like an eagle and a mane of barbed quills.

Libra: Scouts from the high plains, heralds to the travelling horde. Simple, nimble armor, except for a single manica. A falcon in imperial green scans the plains and returns to its masters shoulder.

Scorpio: Disgraces, offered a last chance at redemption. Suicidal charges and earth soaked red. Ceremonial armor creaking under the strain as the change begins. 

Ophiuchus: Sorcerer knights in royal blue. Azure crystals channeling a glittering blade of pure energy, bathing the candlelit study in a flash of blue-green light to defend their young lord.

Sagittarius: Long inhuman knights. Too-wide eyes watching the verdant hall, too-long arms clad in veridium armor. War scythes made in imitation of the fae queen they serve. 

Capricorn: Knights of a flooded and cursed place. Blunted swords brass armor, green with age, gain new lethality in the clusters of rending barnacles and stinging nettles that cling to what is left of the ancient metal. 

Aquarius: A holy knight in ritual gold. He sits in meditation, the sun at his back, as blood drips from a small cut on his palm and stains the blade of his jagged-edged greatsword. He is nearly ready.

Pisces: A young man in training for service to his lord. Unfocused maneuvers with a wooden practice blade. Dreams of flight. Dreams of donning shed skin. Dreams of flight. 

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The Royal Signs IV:

Aries: A young king who bears the weight of an impossible legacy. Evenings in the necropolis, quiet meditation on matters of state before the sarcophagus where his mother sleeps. 

Taurus: A bandit. A mercenary. A raider. He wears no crown and holds no keep, but make no mistake. These lands are his. 

Gemini: A philosopher king. Scholars sent to the corners of the earth. A library citadel built high in the mountains. A thirst to learn, to know. Whispers from the old step well. 

Cancer: Stories of war from the retainers. Starry-eyed and swelling with pride at the mural of his grandmother’s conquests. Foolish, short-lived dreams of imperial glory. A humble twilight.

Leo: The old temple sealed. No more orders from a supposed sleeping god. No longer shall the gods be hidden from his people. His husband in holy gold and blood, the new cult of the god-king.

Virgo: A queen determined to heal the scars of war. Dignitaries to the pale foreigners. A college, constructed on a barren rock in the strait between the empires. The Greatest of its kind.

Libra: A lineage of wealth and power. Courts and parties and marriage abandoned in favor of theorems and graphs.  Evenings on the veranda studying the stars with a childhood friend. 

Scorpio: A father who cut short so many royal bloodlines. An eldest son born with an ancient mark of kingship. A toddler on shaky legs, chatting to the birds and foxes in the garden.

Ophiuchus: The tomb of an ancient king, buried in seclusion, far from the royal valley. The wall of stories left blank. Hundreds of nameless sarcophagi of impossible sizes, all with strange feline features.  

Sagittarius: A simple life guiding traders across the dune seas. Though she does not know it, she is the last of an ancient bloodline. The sole inheritor to a legacy swallowed by the dust she fords.

Capricorn: A young princess. She spends her mornings in the great stone aviaries, tossing mice to the serpents as they warm their feathers in the morning light. 

Aquarius: The holy king to a kingdom in duress, supplicant to a supposed holy empire. All a farce. Secret stone temples. Wicker effigies of the old gods stalk the royal wood.

Pisces: A princess that simply vanished. Her body was discovered years later. Sat in meditation on a lonely mountainside, a single ancient scale in her hands.