Literary research and postcolonial literatures in English : strategies and sources / H. Faye Christenberry [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and indexes.

Basics of online searching -- General literary reference sources -- Library catalogs -- Print and electronic bibliographies, indexes, and annual reviews -- Scholarly journals -- Literary reviews -- Magazines and newspapers -- Microform and digital collections -- Manuscripts and archives -- Web resources -- Researching a thorny issue.

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, 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.