Information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain as well as places like Latin America and the Philippines.
This Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work from A (Gemino Henson Abad) to Z (Fay Zwicky) and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. It explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Aiming to be as broad and inclusive as possible, the encyclopedia covers all of native North American Latino literature as well as that created by authors originating in virtually every country of Spanish America and Spain.
This text provides an overview of the main themes, issues, and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures. Discussing the historical, cultural and contextual background that has affected postcolonial literatures and our reading of them, it contains selected work of some of the major writers from this period.
Draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors (Zee Edgell), critics (Margo Glantz), major works (Paradiso), magazines (Amauta), genres, schools and movements (Spanish American modernism) in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.
Criticism
The books in the reference collection (DLB, CLC, TCLC, etc.) are amazing resources for literary criticism. The best way to use them is to find the most recent index in any of the series (they are all part of a collective publication) and find your author. The index will tell you in which title and which volume your author is in. For example you may see: TCLC 28 or DLB 99. That tells you the series and then the volume. You just have to pull that specific volume.
Current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Contains online Dictionary of Literary Biography.
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields.
The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and is international in scope. The bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. Next to basic search and advanced search, you can also search via the thesaurus: a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography. The database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals which provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Entries cover:
publication details
contact information
submission requirements and editorial policies
subscription terms
electronic availability and advertising
useful statistics such as circulation, average number of articles submitted and published, time from submission to decision, and time from decision to publication.
All periodicals and book series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography are listed in the directory.
Literature Criticism Online: Children's Literature Review covers more than 750 authors and includes numerous entries focusing on individual titles and topics in children’s and young adult literature, including picture books, folklore and graphic novels.
An advanced, multidisciplinary database featuring secondary resources in history, scholarly articles, over 57,000 eBooks and other resources spanning the humanities and sciences.
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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by 
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Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature by 
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 by 
