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 (which formed the Union of South Africa in 1910), 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, both digital and paper based: bibliographies, indexes, research guides, archives, special collections, and microforms.

H. Faye Christenberry is English studies librarian at the University of Washington Libraries.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Basics of Online Searching
Chapter 2: General Literary Reference Sources
Chapter 3: Library Catalogs
Chapter 4: Print and Electronic Bibliographies, Indexes, and Annual Reviews
Chapter 5: Scholarly Journals
Chapter 6: Literary Reviews
Chapter 7: Magazines and Newspapers
Chapter 8: Microform and Digital Collections
Chapter 9: Manuscripts and Archives
Chapter 10: Web Resources
Chapter 11: Researching a Thorny Issue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors