IB and UB Resources
Reference Books: UB and IB Holdings
This bibliography lists some of the introductory handbooks and reference books available in our campus libraries. These are recommended sources for reading up on transcultural literature, culture and theory.
THEORY/ CRITICISM
- Nünnig, Ansgar, ed. Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ansätze - Personen – Grundbegriffe.¨4th ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008 .
IB: L 500 6633 5229and LX 410 663
- Cuddon, J.A. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin, 1998.
IB:LX 411 225
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. Post-Colonial Studies. The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2007.
IB: LX 410 041
- Edwards, Justin D. Postcolonial Literature. A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. New York: Palgrave, 2008.
SULB
- Wisker, Gina. Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
SULB
LITERATURE
General
- Benson, Eugene, and Conolly, L.W. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of post-colonial literatures in English.2 Vols. London: Routledge, 2005.
SULB and IB: LX 410 663
- Kreutzer, Eberhard, Ansgar Nünnig (eds). Metzler Lexikon Englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999.
IB: LX 420 497
- Johnson, David and Prem Poddar. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Edinburgh. Edinburgh UP, 2005
IB: forthcomming
Surveys of Anglophone Literature
- Durix, Carole and Jean-Pierre. An introduction to the new literatures in English: Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, the Indian Sub-continent, Canada and the Carribbean .Paris : Longman France, 1993
SULB
- Lars Eckstein, ed. English Literatures Across the Globe. A Companion. Paderborn: Fink, 2007.
SULB
- Jahnson, Christa, ed. Companion to the New Literatures in English. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2002.
SULB
- Childs, Peter, Jean Jacques Weber and Patrick Williams. Post-Colonial Theory and Literatures: African, Caribbean and South Asian. Trier: WVT, 2006
SULB
- King, Bruce (ed). New National and Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 1998
IB: VANL 130 4956: 654
Africa
- Gikandi, Simon. The Routledge Encyclopaedia of African Literature. London: Routledge, 2009
IB: AFRL 100 3595 781
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 157: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1996
SULB
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 125: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1993
SULB
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1993
SULB
- Banham, Martin, Erroll Hill, George Woodyard (eds). Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge CUP, 1994
SULB
- Banham, Martin (ed). A History of Theatre in Africa. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
SULB
- Zell, Hans (ed.). The African studies companion: a guide to information sources.Lochcarron: Hans Zell, 2003
SULB
- Parekh, Pushpa Naidu, Siga Fatima Jagne (eds.). Postcolonial African writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport [Conn.]: Greenwood Press, 1998.
IB: AFRL 508 6817 713
Caribbean
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 157: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1996
SULB
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 125: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1993
SULB
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Third Series. Ed. Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander. Detroit, 1993
SULB
- Banham, Martin, Erroll Hill, George Woodyard (eds). Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge CUP, 1994
SULB
Polycultural Britain
- Dabydeen, David. Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford: OUP, 2008.
IB: PCBK 3001 2301 0950
- Donnell, Allison (ed). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London: Routledge, 2001
SULB
- Dabydeen, David, Nana Wilson-Tagoe. A Reader's Guide to Westindian and Black British Literature. London: Hansib, 1997
IB: PCBL 140 2301 757
Pan-Pacific Areas
- Denoon, Donald and Philippa Mein-Smith. A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Malden [Mass.]: Blackwell, 2000.
IB: PACK 3008 2436 4288
Polycultural North America
- Okihiro, Gary Y. Columbia Guide to Asian American History. New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
IB: PNAK 3001 6725 2005
- Huang, Guiyou. Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945. New York: Columbia UP, 2006
IB: PNAL 501 4620 200
- Toye, William. The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford: OUP, 2001
IB: LX 422 933
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 92: Canadian Writers, 1890-1920. Second Series. Ed. W.H. New. Detroit, 1990
IB: LX 152 254 92
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 88: Canadian Writers, 1920-1959. Second Series. Ed. W.H. New. Detroit, 1987
IB: LX 152 254 68
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 53: Canadian Writers since 1960. First Series. Ed. W.H. New. Detroit, 1986
IB: LX 152 254 53
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 60: Canadian Writers since 1960. Second Series. Ed. W.H. New. Detroit, 1987
IB: LX 152 254 60
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol 251: Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Douglas Irvinson. Detroit, 2002
IB: LX 152 254 251
- New, William H., ed. Encyclopaedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2002.
SULB
South Asia
- Emanuel S. Nelson. Writers of the Indian Diaspora: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Westport [Conn.]: Greenwood Press, 1993.
SULB