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Full-Text Articles
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full-text e-resources in the Short Loan Collection. You must be logged on with
NetID and password to gain access. Achebe,
Chinua. "Empire
fights back." Achebe, Chinua. Home and Exile. Oxford ; New
York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 37-72 Banerjee,
Chinmoy. "The
erotics of resistance and postcolonial self-fashioning in Annie John."
Ariel : A Review of International English Literature. 33.2 (2002):
33-56. Jujena,
Renu. "The
backward glance." Juneja, Renu. Caribbean Transactions : West
Indian Culture in Literature. London : Macmillan Caribbean, 1996. 50-86.
Ngugi,
wa Thiongo. "George
Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin." Ngugi, wa
Thiongo. Homecoming : Essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture
and politics. London : Heinemann, 1972. 110-126 Nkosi,
Lewis. "Chinua
Achebe." African Writers Talking : A Collection of Interviews. Ed.
Dennis Duerden and Cosmo Pieterse. London : Heinemann Educational, 1972. 3-17
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Killam, Douglas, and Ruth Rowe, eds. The companion to African
literatures. Oxford : James Currey, 2000.
Alphabetic listing of people and topics. Topic entries extend over several
pages and include literary genres, politics, religion, and other contemporary
issues.
Hawley, John C., ed. Encyclopedia of postcolonial
studies. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Knowles, Owen, and Glen M. Moore, eds. The
Oxford reader's companion to Conrad. Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2000. Lazarus, Neil, ed. The
Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. Lindfors,
Bernth, and Reihhard Sander, eds. Twentieth-century
Caribbean and Black African writers. First series. Detroit : Gale Research Inc., 1992.
Includes Achebe and Walcott. Extended essays of discussion followed by list
of further reading. Lindfors,
Bernth, and Reihhard Sander, eds. Twentieth-century
Caribbean and Black African writers. Third series. Detroit : Gale Research Inc., 1996
Includes Kincaid. Extended essay of discussion followed by list of further
reading. Poddar, Prem, and David
Johnson, eds. A
historical companion to postcolonial literatures in English. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Stape,
J. H., ed. The
Cambridge companion to Joseph Conrad Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
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Lindfors, Bernth. Black African literature in
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This is the latest in a series starting from 1982. Use the Table of Contents
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the Subject Index at the back. Parasevini-Gebert,
Lizabeth. Caribbean women novelists : an annotated critical
bibliography. Westport,
Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Lists authors alphabetically. Includes references to reviews and interviews
as well as general secondary material. Use the Index of Themes and Keywords at
the back for a topical guide. Lawson,
Alan, et al. Post-colonial
literatures in English : general, theoretical, and comparative, 1970-1993. New York :
G. K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,
1997.
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Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English site.
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Lamming and Walcott. Interview
with Jamaica Kincaid about her writing, from the Missouri Review. Jamaica
Kincaid - from the Voices
from the Gap: Women Artists and Writers of Color website The
Introduction to Postcolonial Studies page from the English Department at Emory
University has information on:
Jamaica Kincaid
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Derek Walcott
Tsitsi Dangarembga Andrea
Levy - from the British Council contemporary writers website Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's Purple
Hibiscus - from the Nigerian Village Square. For more reviews see also:
The
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website for poetry, short stories, the first
chapter of Purple Hibiscus, interviews, reviews and a links to secondary
sources. An extract of new writing is available in Granta
88. Granta is shelved at 820.5 G76. Bibliography
of Feminist Criticism in French and English of Tsitsi Dangarembga's work by
Sharon Verba, Reference Department, University of Indiana Libraries June
Henfrey - from the Peepal Tree Press website.
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