Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources (Volume 11) (Literary Research: Strategies and Sources, 11)

Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literature of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have been addressed. This volume offers guidance for those researching the postcolonial literature of the former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Among the forty nations represented in this volume are South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, Swaziland, Belize, and Namibia. With the exception of South Africa (which formed the Union of South Africa in 1910), this guide picks up its coverage in 1947, when both India and Pakistan gained their independence. The literature created by writers from these nations represents the diverse experiences in the postcolonial condition and are the subject of this book. The volume provides best-practice suggestions for the research process and discusses how to take advantage of primary text resources in a variety of formats, both digital and paper based: bibliographies, indexes, research guides, archives, special collections, and microforms.

Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literature of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have been addressed. This volume offers guidance for those researching the postcolonial literature of the former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Among the forty nations represented in this volume are South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, Swaziland, Belize, and Namibia.

With the exception of South Africa (which formed the Union of South Africa in 1910), this guide picks up its coverage in 1947, when both India and Pakistan gained their independence. The literature created by writers from these nations represents the diverse experiences in the postcolonial condition and are the subject of this book. The volume provides best-practice suggestions for the research process and discusses how to take advantage of primary text resources in a variety of formats, both digital and paper based: bibliographies, indexes, research guides, archives, special collections, and microforms.

Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors: whose lands were formerly subjugated, to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literatures of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have been addressed. This volume offers guidance to those researching the postcolonial literatures of the former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Among the forty nations represented in this book are South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, Swaziland, Belize, and Namibia Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Basics of Online Searching Chapter 2: General Literary Reference Sources Chapter 3: Library Catalogs Chapter 4: Print and Electronic Bibliographies, Indexes, and Annual Reviews Chapter 5: Scholarly Journals Chapter 6: Literary Reviews Chapter 7: Magazines and Newspapers Chapter 8: Microform and Digital Collections Chapter 9: Manuscripts and Archives Chapter 10: Web Resources Chapter 11: Researching a Thorny Issue Appendix Bibliography About the Authors Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly colonized. This book is a research guide to postcolonial literatures in English, specifically from former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. While this volume focuses exclusively on Anglophone literatures, it does not address those from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand as they have already been covered in previous volumes in the series