Encyclopedias and Handbooks
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowPublished by Oxford University Press, it is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database containing dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works.
Postcolonial Theory : A Critical Introduction by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that opens up possibilities for debate.
Student Encyclopedia of African Literature by Location: African Studies Library Reference PR9340.A52 K65 2008 and OnlinePublication Date: 2007African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide by Location: Mugar Reference X HQ1115 .G74 2003Publication Date: 2003
Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 Volumes] by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples.
The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience.
Guides to the Literature
- Browse or search Cambridge Companions to LiteratureCambridge Companions provide essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers.
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel by The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by a host of leading scholars in the field, this book offers insight into the representative movements, cultural settings, and critical reception that define the postcolonial novel. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape, and will serve as a valuable resource to students and established scholars alike.Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field.
The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies since the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (1996). The volume's thirteen chapters offer diverse perspectives on emergent areas of interest, including canon formation, postcolonialism, gender, critical reception and adaptation.
Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2007Chinua Achebe's remarkable novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is probably the best known African novel and has become one of the world's most influential literary masterpieces. This is the ideal guide to the text, setting Things Fall Apart in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering analyses of its themes, style and structure, providing exemplary close readings, presenting an up-to-date account of its critical reception and examining its afterlife in literature, film and popular culture.
Literary Biography
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of notable figures from British history who have shaped the culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. Does not include living people or those recently deceased. Limited to one (1) concurrent user.
- Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biography In Context offers biographical information about historically significant figures as well as present-day newsmakers. It includes reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia by Location: African Studies Library Reference PR9387.9.A3 Z459 2003Publication Date: 2003Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.
Encyclopedia of African Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2003The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature by Location: Mugar Reference X PJ7510 .R76 2010Publication Date: 2010The Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature is an authoritative reference source on the most important authors, works, genres, key terms, concepts and issues in the Arabic literary tradition.
Fifty Caribbean Writers : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook by Location: Mugar Reference X PR9205.A52 F54 1986Publication Date: 1986Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author.
