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