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Course
Material 
To find
items in the Short Loan Collection, click the Readings tab in Library Search. On the next screen click on the pull down arrow next to the Course
search box, and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 112. Click Search.
Find Books
The following searches are Subject Heading searches.
Search Tip: You can also use the The Catalogue to find material on the topics discussed in your course, e.g. globalization literature . From the results screen, use the options shown in the left hand side bar to refine your results.
Reference
resources
Ashcroft, Bill, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Caribbean Women Writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997.
Cook, Nathalie. Margaret Atwood : a Critical Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Fakrul, Alam, ed. South Asian Writers in English. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006.
[includes Arundhati Roy]
Gikandi, Simon, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Giles, James H, and Wanda H. Giles, eds.
American Novelists since World War II. Seventh series. Detroit : Thomson/Gale, 2003.
[includes Sherman Alexie]
Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed. Modern Irish Writers: a Bio-critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Hammill, Faye. Canadian Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Lindfors, Bernth, and Reinhard Sander, eds. Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996.
[includes Grace Nichols]
McLinton-Temple, Jennifer, and Alan Velie, eds. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2007.
Moseley, Merritt, ed. Booker Prize Novels, 1969-2005. Detroit, Thomson Gale, 2006.
[includes The God of Small Things]
Quinn, Justin. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Parek, Pushpa Naidu, and Siga Fatima Jagne, eds. Postcolonial African Writers : a Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Serafin, Steven R., and Valerie Grosvenor Myer, eds. The Continuum Encyclopedia of British literature. New York: Continuum, 2003.
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, eds. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Online -
fully searchable collection. Search by keyword or named author, by selecting from the pull down menu in the first seach screen. Typically each author/topic is covered by an extended essay covering background, criticism, commentary, and a list of further reading. Photographs are usually included. Each article can be re-formatted for reading, and e-mailed/printed/downloaded.
Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. All titles are available in print, but also online via the Cambridge Collections Online database. The links below take you to the print edition in Voyager. Within the database, you can either search for an individual title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection.
Howells, Coran Ann, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lazarus, Neil, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Kröller, Eva Marie, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Roche, Anthony, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Richards, Shaun, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.
[only available in Cambridge Collections Online]
Campbell, Matthew, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Blackwell Reference Online
Blackwell Reference Online is a collection of text searchable e-books. Click the red SEARCH link in the right of the home page. Type the author's name in the search box, and from the options below, mark Full Text and Adjacency [exact match]. Results display the chapter and work in which the author's name appears. Click the title to see the full text. Search terms are highlighted in yellow within the text. Further reading is given at the end of the chapter, and also information on how to cite the reference in your assignment. The left hand side panel shows the other chapters in the book.
Find articles
The
following databases will provide references to material on all authors and
topics covered in this course. Contact the subject librarian if you need help with database searching.
Search Tip: You can also use the Articles & More link in Library Search. To ensure the articles meet academic requirements, click Peer-Reviewed Journals in the left hand panel of the results screen. You can continue to refine the search further using this panel, e.g. by date, format, online, from the options provided.
MLA International Bibliography - use the Author as Subject search box to type the author's name, e.g. Atwood Margaret, or the Author's Work search box to type in the name of a text, e.g. Surfacing.
Index New Zealand - INNZ - use the keyword search box to type in the name of the text, enclosed by quotation marks " ". To check Library holdings, search Voyager using the title of the periodical or newspaper as a Serial Title search.
Literature Resource Center - select the Title search option, and type in the name of the text that you are researching [omit "the" at the start of the title]. Click the Exact Title button. Some results may be displayed under the Biographies tab. Also click the Literary Criticism, Articles, and Work Overviews tabs for futher results. Not all texts are represented in this database.
Internet
Resources
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be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites from this page.
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things - from the Postcolonial Web, and on the Luminarium Contemporary Writers website.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - British Council Contemporary Writers website, and the Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie website
from the English Department, University of Liège, Belgium.
Also an interview from theBBC's Africa Beyond.
An interview with Sherman Alexie, from the The Guardian
Other countries and authors can be explored on Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literatures in English
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