postcolonial literary theory

Anyone have any recommendations for getting into postcolonial studies, in particular literary theory?

I don't know of anything about literary theory, but Patricia M. Pelley has some scholarship on the effects of colonialism in Vietnam. I've read some of her articles on the topic including "'Barbarians' and 'Young Brothers': Remaking Race in Postcolonial Vietnam." This article details the struggle of Vietnamese revolutionaries who had to recreate a non European identity following the french retreat. She also has a book that expands upon these ideas called "Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past" I haven't read the book but she's an excellent scholar that you might look into.

You must have heard of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said: they're classics.
If you're feeling brave (it's a short but difficult read), there's the seminal Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - preferably the latest, reworked version.
Another classic is Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
And there's always Frantz Fanon - not literary theory per se, but because his ideas infused the field, it's a good idea to read him. The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks
Tzvetan Todorov is also worth a look.

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Helpful comments to me, thanks. I'm familiar with many of those titles and have read some, but would not have been able to put them into that context.

Another title I found engaging is Ariel Dorfman's The Empire's Old Clothes, but I vaguely recall it is perhaps not as well-regarded as it once was.