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This web provides specificinformation about Korean American Literature. It contains historic background, case study, limitation and further studies, and definition of terms regarding studying Korean American literature. If you are interested in studying Asian American Literature, especially Korean American Literature, you may find useful material here.

URL : http://koreanamericanliterature.com/

Keyword(s) : American literature, Korean American authors, Korean Americans

English Literature->Drama->By period->17th century/Restoration
English Literature->Drama->By period->18th century
English Literature->Drama->Theater&Film
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Theatre Studies
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This website attempts to approach plays as not simply a printed text, but a dramatic performance that is seen and heard, as well as read—a “world” that exists in several dimensions. Various aspects of this “world” are looked into, and the division of sub-categories is as follows:

1. Timeline: A chronological timeline that shows the history (and development) of the London Theater, from Pre-1660 to 1800 and after.
2. Places: A map shows the streets of London in the year 1762, and various places, and their significance, are introduced in detail.
3. WWW: Electronic links to additional internet resources are given.
4. Bibliography: A bibliography of helpful written resources.
5. London Life: Quotes from texts which depict the contemporary life in London in the years 1660-1800, from topics such as the situation of women to the use of wigs.
6. People: An alphabetical list of people who influenced the London theater, either as actors/actresses, playwrights, producers, and critics, etc. Pictures are shown for visual aid.
7. Pictures: Pictures of people, costumes, theaters, advertisements, etc. Quality of pictures is not great.
8. Plays: A brief introduction of some Restoration and 18th-century plays, with links to critical discussions for some.
9. Casts: The year in which the respective plays were opened and the venue in which they were performed, along with the original cast is shown here.
10. Comments: Some comments on Wilmot, Earl of Rochester are provided.
11. Production Arts: Technical aspects, such as lighting and scenic design, that were used in the British theaters in the 18th-century are discussed here.
12. Reviews(Modern Productions): Reviews of contemporary productions and revivals can be read.

The website is generally very helpful and provides some very interesting facts and details. The user interface, however, is not exquisite, and much improvement could be made in the font, the layout, the quality of images, etc. Leaving such shortcomings aside, the website will prove to be useful for those studying the history of the British theater.

URL : http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonmen1.html

Keyword(s) : Theatre and drama , London theater , British Plays , London life

General Resources->Libraries
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Biographical Literature
English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Prose & Novel->
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Gender Studies
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

This site contains a digital collection of 52 works by 19th-century black women writers. There are also biographies of black women writers. Additionally, a part of this website- the New York digital library functioning as an online exhibition-shows African American migration experiences vividly.

URL : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Keyword(s) : African American arts, African American authors, African American women, African Americans in literature, African diaspora, Biography

General Resources->Digital Repositories
General Resources->Anthologies/Collections
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

This site, which is a subcategory of the larger BBC site, focuses on providing audio resources to the user through the recordings of various interviews authors had with the broadcasting company.

The voices of well-known U.K. authors, such as Graham Greene, Salman Rushdie, and even Virginia Woolf etc. can be heard via a simple click of the mouse. The authors are listed in alphabetical order, and when you have chosen one, their brief biography is given, along with short audio clippings that were recorded while they were giving their opinions on various issues concerning culture, society, politics, and even their own personal life. Margaret Atwood, for example, talks about the constraints of realism; Nadine Gordimer explains the cross cultural development in South Africa; Vladimir Nabokov expresses his views on contemporary Russia; Agatha Christie tells how she first started writing.

These brief clips, seldom longer than 4 minutes, give the listener the opportunity to experience another side of these brilliant writers. The combination of their actual voices and their truthful opinions turn out to be a great experience to the site-user, especially if that user is a literature student, for it is quite a surreal experience to actually hear the voice of these exalted writers in the flesh.

URL : http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/professions/writers.shtml

Keyword(s) : Interview, Audio resource, Voices from the archive, Fiction, Contemporary British novel

General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies

Collecting research material and coherently organizing it is always an amazing and commendable feat. George P. Landow, an English professor at Brown University, has successfully achieved, then, in such a feat for he has created a webspace dedicated to Postcolonial studies that provides such an abundant amount of information material that it renders additional websurfing unnecessary.

The PoCo web, as it is called, is a site that categorizes a vast collection of materials on recent postcolonial and postimperial literature in English so that users can pinpoint what they need and go right to it. It first divides the resources according to respective continents/countries, authors, and main issues concerning the critical theory (politics, religion, gender matters, etc.). These categories are also then divided into subcategories of their own – for instance, the category of “India” is then divided into subcategories such as geography, demography, economics, history, politics, religion, and so on; these subcategories are further divided into smaller ones such as themes and issues, theorists, terms, symbol and image, etc. What the site is trying to do, essentially, is to introduce information on the country as a backdrop to explain postcolonial theory and its argument; only after understanding the various religions and cultures in India can one be able to understand what Rushdie is trying to say in his works.

All in all, this web has a rich amount of information waiting to be found and owned by the user. The difficulty lies in actually finding your way through this enormous maze, for it takes time and patience to guide yourself through the plethora of categories and the sublinks that lie underneath them. The continuous clicks and the complex navigation are worth it though, for you will find yourself more knowledgeable in the end.

URL : http://www.postcolonialweb.org

Keyword(s) : Post-imperialism, Colonial literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Diaspora