English Literature->Theory & Studies->Critical Theory
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies
English Literature->Drama->Europe & others
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts

This site provides resources for all those interested in the influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Using colonial discourse and post-colonial theory as a point of departure, some pages examine the British idea of 'Empire' and the colonial enterprise in a selected range of 19th-century authors and their work; others consider 20th and 21st-century texts, in an attempt to understand how imperialism affected literary texts produced in Britain's former colonies.

The Section of "Imperial Archive" indicates political and cultural history of Australia, Canada, India, The Carribean, Ireland, Nigeria and other African regions. In addition, this section also gives Transnational Imperial & Post-colonial Themes, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, more than 50 links of post colonial sites but many of them do not work.

The pages are authored by students working on the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies in the School of English at the Queen's University of Belfast.

URL : http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/imperial.htm

Keyword(s) : drama, colonial,  postcolonial,  aime cesaire, shakespeare, 

English Literature->Drama->Europe & others
English Literature->Drama->By period->English renaissance(1500-1640)
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Cultural Studies
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Critical Theory

"A Tempest," which is an adaptation of the Shakespeare's original work, was written in 1969 by a French writer, Aimne Cesaire. And it was translated into English in 1985 by Richard Miller. It is written with the postcolonial view.

It originally offers the colonial & Postcolonial Literature. Cesaire's 'A Tempest' is one of this kind of literary works. It links to other colonial & postcolonial works from English/American, Indian/Native American, African, Carribean, Latin American and Middle Eastern.
It also have 4 historical and theological texts. It offers short introduction of the work, biography of wrtiter, links, teaching point

The contents are mainly for the high school students.
However It is good enough for anyone who doesn't know about the postcolonial literary or who is interested in the postcolonial literary.

URL : http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/atempest.html

Keyword(s) : drama, shakepeare, the tempest, adaptation, post colonial, rewriting, aime cesaire, a tempest, post colonialsim

English Literature->Prose & Novel->By Period->20th Century
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Critical Theory

This webpage, a section of literary history.com, is divided into General Articles and Bibliography and Websites. General Articles provides 18 valid links to various articles, including journals, book reviews, conference papers, magazine articles etc. Bibliography and Web Sites has 4 links available, including one to the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

URL : http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Woolf.htm

Keyword(s) : 20th British writer, Virginia Woolf , History and criticism, Essay

English Literature->Theory & Studies->Critical Theory

This site displays an article titled Postmodernism: Rearranging the Future of the Universe by Fayaz Chagani.

The writer tries to define what postmodernism is and how the definition and concept of postmodernism has been developed.

URL : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/9095/postmodernism.html

Keyword(s) : Postmodernism (Literature), The May 1968 student protests, Nietzsche, Anti-modernism, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault

English Literature->Theory & Studies->Critical Theory

This is a sub-site of the Department of English Language and Literature, Fu Yen University, Taiwan.

Liang summarized John Barth's The Literature of Replenishment--Postmodernist Fiction and contrasted the concept of modernism and postmodernism.

This one-page website contains general views about postmodernism & postmodernist fiction, Barth's disagreement with modernism, Barth's view of postmodernism & postmodernist fiction, Modernism, Two Examples, and Questions.

URL : http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/replenishment.htm

Keyword(s) : Postmodernism, Fiction, Modernism (Literature)