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For background information and definitions refer to the following library reference works and online reference collections:
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English [CREDO Reference], Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
Authoritative and international survey of world literature in English with entries on eras, theses, genres and critical terms, authors, poems, novels, literary journals and plays.
Contemporary Novelists [Gale Virtual Reference Library] St. James Press, 2001.
Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature [CREDO Reference], Continuum International Publishing Group, Ltd., 2006.
A comprehensive guide to all British literature, including literature in English from the colonial and postcolonial periods.
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, Routledge, 2004.
Main Level, Reference: R 860.03 En19E2
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge, 1994.
Main Level, Reference: R 820.9917 En19E [2 vols]
A comprehensive collection of 1600 alphabetically arranged genre, subject, country and author entries, spanning the literatures in English of Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, the Caribbean, East Africa, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, St. Helena, South Africa, South Central Africa, the South Pacific and West Africa.
The Encyclopedia is alphabetically organized and includes three major categories of survey: national entries, which trace the literary and cultural development of a country in terms of its geography, history, economy, and politics; major subject and genre entries, which provide a historic perspective on the trends and currents of literary activity in different countries; and biographical and critical entries on individual authors.
Modern Women Writers, Continuum, 1996.
Main Level, Reference: R 809.8928709 M72M [4 vols]
Rhys entry appears in volume 3, with excerpts from book, newpaper, and journal articles about her writing.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005.
Main Level, Reference: R 801.950904 J62J
This informative, reliable introduction to criticism and literary theory is for those with interest in theoretical issues but without specialized knowledge. Entries contain cross references, see also, and a bibliography with selected primary and secondary sources. Helpful indexes of Names and Topics in back of volume.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature [Oxford Reference Online] Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
Provides extensive coverage of writers, works, literary theory, allusions, and characters. The Companion places English literature in its widest context, offering an extensive exploration of the classical roots of English literature, and the European and non-European works and writers that have influenced its development.
Also available Main Level, Reference: R 820.9 Ox2O [2000]
Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Main Level, Reference: R 325.3 C718C [3 vols]
Includes 600 entries covering ideologies, religions, theory, geography, imperial nations, colonies, colonized regions, ethnic groups, individuals, and treaties.
Contributions from an international team of academic experts in history, political science, economics, sociology, and other social sciences. Comprehensive coverage of colonies, international organizations, powerful companies and individuals, doctrines, wars, and the role of religion. Examination of how colonialism left nationalism, racism, capitalism, cultural transformation, human migration, and gross inequities of wealth in its wake.
World Authors, H.W. Wilson Company.
Main Level, Reference: R 809 W893W
Series includes coverage from 1950 to 2000, with most volumes covering a 5-year span. Rhys appears in 1950-1970 volume; Ishiguro appears in 1985-1990 volume.
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Jean Rhys, Sylvie Maurel, St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Main Level, Circulation Desk, Reserve Shelf: 823.91209 M446J
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966, Penguin Books, 1984.
Main Level, Circulation Desk, Reserve Shelf: B 349R
Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole, Veronica Marie Gregg, UNC Press, 1995.
Main Level, Circulation Desk, Reserve Shelf: 823.91209 G861J
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: A Reader's Guide, Continuum, 2001.
Main Level, Circulation Desk, Reserve Shelf: 823.91409 P229K
The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D., Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Cornell University Press, 1989.
Main Level, Circulation Desk, Reserve Shelf: 820.9355 K692U
Literature Resource Center [Thomson Gale] 
Search here for your author or use advanced search criteria to compile a list of authors by type. Contains biographical information from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, as well as British Writers [Main Level Reference: R 820.9 B777B] and thirteen Scribner print sources.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, 1990.
Main Level, Reference: R 809 D561D
DLB provides career biographies of literary figures from a vast range of cultural backgrounds and historical periods. In addition to biographical information, DLB also provides an overview of authors’ major works.Also searchable in Literature Resource Center.
Access Note: Select “Advanced Search” select search field from pull-down menu options (author, keyword, title, etc.), and type in appropriate search terms for field. To limit search to DLB, from “limit the current search” go to “database” and select Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Multicultural Writers since 1945: An A-Z Guide, Greenwood Press, 2004.
Main Level, Reference: R 809.045 M919M
Each entry provides biographical information about the author, major multicultural themes, survey of criticism, and bibliography with selected studies of the author’s work. Includes Achebe, Rhys, Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.
Humanities: Documenting Sources [Research and Documentation Online], Bedford/St. Martins, 2003.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Main Level, Ready Reference: RR 808.02 M72M
Main Level, Reference: R 808.02 M72M
Writing Center, Presbyterian College
Citation styles, writing guides, and scheduling an appointment with a tutor.
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THOMCAT
Use the online catalog to locate books in Thomason Library. You can search by author, title, word, or subject.
- Search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, with last name, then first name:
- SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings related to Postcolonial literature:
- Try a KEYWORD search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find if you are unsure of the exact title or the correct subject heading to use. Place phrases in "quotation marks."
- Connect words with AND, OR, NOT to focus your search.
- Try truncation at the end of a word stem to retrieve singular, plural, and other variations of the word. Use an asterisk (*) to truncate from 1 to 5 characters. Use a double asterisk (**) to include word endings with an unlimited number of characters.
KEYWORD Searching Tips |
· Add * to the root of a word to truncate or expand a term:
postcolonial* = postcolonial, postcolonialist, postcolonialism
· Use AND between words to narrow your search:
England AND antisemiti*
· Use OR between words to expand your search and
group words with parentheses:
(England OR Great Britain) AND antisemiti*
Try WORD searching with ThomCat, other library catalogs & library databases
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Literature Resource Center[Thomson Gale]
Biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, and the British Writers series. Also provides full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database. Contains full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals, critical essays, author biographies, and definitions of literary terms from Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection
This collection brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's largest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, and more detailed information from titles in the Oxford Companions Series.
Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]
A large collection of active full text peer-reviewed journals, Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
Academic OneFile [Thomson/Gale]
A comprehensive database of academic journals for scholarly research. Covers the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more with articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, mostly in full-text. Includes New York Times content from 1995 to the present in full-text.
MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOhost]
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
http://hdl.handle.net/1880/44661 link to MLA Tutorial - basic search. Choose Shockwave Flash
JSTOR
An archive of over 350 full-text journals which can be searched at this site. Other PC databases link to JSTOR articles through Journal Finder, which guides the user to full-text articles. As an archive, JSTOR does not provide the most current three to five year issues of the journals as specified by the publishers in their agreements with JSTOR.
Project MUSE Basic Undergraduate Collection
Current and recent volumes of 112 core journals in the humanities and social sciences.
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Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English [George P. Landow, Brown Univ., with funding from National University of Singapore]
Note: site is no longer receiving updates.
Jane Eyre [Victorian Web]
Kazuo Ishiguro [National University of Singapore]
Web page from Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English.
Postcolonial Literature of the Caribbean: A Pathfinder [SUNY Albany]
Provides an annotated bibliography of postcolonialism scholarship under category “Important Works on Postcolonial Theory and Literature,” as well as a list of key journals and links to other web sites.
Postcolonial Literatures: Theories [Pittsburgh State University]
This web site provides a wealth of information on postcolonial literatures and postcolonial theory in general. Authored by students with faculty supervision, this web site is bursting with information covering nearly every aspect of postcolonial studies. Essays range in length from a few paragraphs to two pages of text. Bibliographies are included
The Voice of the Shuttle: Other English Literatures [Alan Liu]
Provides annotated links to a variety of Postcolonial sites, covering literature from Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Australia, and other areas. Caution: some links do not work.
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