Selected Reference Works
Africa
Chabal, Patrick. The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996. https://bit.ly/3jm85zf.
Killam, G. D., and Ruth Rowe. The Companion to African Literatures. Oxford: James Currey, 2010. https://bit.ly/3A8UAcc.
Smithe, Jonathan P. African Literature: Overview and Bibliography. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2002. https://bit.ly/3hi43Wb.
Caribbean, Latin America
Balderston, Daniel. Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2004. https://bit.ly/3vWmzso.
Benson, Eugene, and Leonard W. Conolly. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2005. https://bit.ly/3qurlfw.
→ Organized by genre, major subject, and biographies.
Figueredo, D. H. Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2006. https://bit.ly/3w6t242.
Knight, Franklin W., and Henry Louis Gates. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford: University Press, 2016. https://bit.ly/3h1I1rL.
Pactor, Howard S. Colonial British Caribbean Newspapers: A Bibliography and Directory. Bibliographies and Indexes in World History, No. 19. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. https://bit.ly/35Ys3Za.
Poddar, Prem, and David Johnson. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. https://bit.ly/2U9hWhi.
→ Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Redmond, Walter Bernard. Bibliography of the Philosophy in the Iberian Colonies of America. International Archives of the History of Ideas, 51. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1972. https://bit.ly/3x60sB2.
North America
Lecker, Robert, and Jack David. The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors. Downsview, Canada: ECW Press, 1979. https://bit.ly/2ULOXk9.
O’Brien, Elmer J. The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era American Christianity and Religious Communication, 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography. ATLA Bibliography Series ; No. 57. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009. https://bit.ly/3hcabz6.
Ocampo, Aurora M. Diccionario de escritores mexicanos. 1. ed. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Centro de Estudios Literarios, 1967. https://bit.ly/3A9AwX4.
Retrospective
Library of Congress Division of Bibliography. The British Empire in Africa: Selected References. Washington, 1942. https://bit.ly/3jomwTA.
Meyers, Charles Lee. Bibliography of Colonial Costume: Compiled for the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey. New York: sn, 1923. https://bit.ly/3A8DtXV.
Royal Commonwealth Society Library. A Select Bibliography of Publications on Foreign Colonisation--German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgian--Contained in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute. Royal Colonial Institute Bibliographies ; No. 1. London: Royal colonial institute, 1915. https://bit.ly/3A3NjKO.
Women's Studies
Biblowitz, Iris, Women and Literature Collective, and Sense and Sensibility Collective. Women and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Women Writers. 3d ed. Cambridge, Mass: Women and Literature Collective, 1976. https://bit.ly/2UCPRzc.
Buvinić, Mayra. Women and World Development: An Annotated Bibliography. Washington: Overseas Development Council, 1976. https://bit.ly/3A6cOLn.
Daims, Diva. Toward a Feminist Tradition: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; v. 201. New York: Garland Pub Co, 1982. https://bit.ly/3huf9aP.
Leonard, Kathy S. Latin American Women Writers: A Resource Guide to Titles in English. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2007. https://bit.ly/3y1htwy.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, and Olga Torres-Seda. Caribbean Women Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, No. 36. Westport, Conn. ; Greenwood Press, 1993. https://bit.ly/2UHiyuV.
Resources in Postcolonial Studies
Bibliographies and Directories
- Africa-Wide Information
- AfricaBib
- African Literature on the Internet
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
- Postcolonial Studies @ Emory
- Zotero Groups: Postcolonial Digital Humanities, Postcolonialism and Technology, Postcolonial Feminism
Websites
New Books in Postcolonial Thought
Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts by
Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contextsreflects that critiques of ideological formations occur within intersecting social, political, and cultural configurations where each position is in itself 'ideological' - and subject to asymmetrical power relations. Postcolonialism has become an object of critique as ideology, but postcolonial studies' highly diversified engagement with ideology remains a strong focus that exceeds Ideologiekritik. Fourteen contributors from North America, Africa, and Europe focus (I) on the complex relation between postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, and conceptualizations of ideology, (II) on ideological formations that manifest themselves in very specific postcolonial contexts, highlighting the potential continuities between colonial and postcolonial ideology, and (III) on further expanding and complicating the nexus of postcolonial ideology, from veiling as both ideological practice and individual resistance to home as ideological construct; from palimpsestic readings of colonial photography to aesthetics as ideology.
ISBN: 9789004437456Publication Date: 2020-11-26
Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics by
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyses comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics.
ISBN: 9789462702417Publication Date: 2021-03-15
Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature by
Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to regulate cultural visibility and modes of identification in an unevenly structured world. The representation of visual practices in the imaginative realm of fiction opens up a zone in which established orders of the sayable and visible may be revised and transformed. In 12 chapters, the book examines narrative fiction by writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, David Dabydeen and NoViolet Bulawayo, who employ word-image relations to explore the historically fraught links between visual practices and the experience of modernity in a transcultural context. Against this conceptual background, the examination of verbal-visual relations will illustrate how Anglophone fiction models alternative modes of re-presentation that reflect critically on hegemonic visual regimes and reach out for new, more pluralized forms of exchange.
ISBN: 9781000060584Publication Date: 2020-04-23
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