LIT 2230-01: Introduction to Global Literature

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Postcolonial Links

Here are links to some important postcolonial sites

The link to Bedford's web resources: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/worldlit/default.asp? uid=0&rau=0

Urdu Literature: www.columbia.edu/~fp7/

Chinweizu http://people.africadatabase.org/en/profile/15846.html

Information about Parsi Faith (Needed for Rohinton Mistry's works; http://palette.ecn.purdue.edu/~bulsara/ZOROASTRIAN/zoroastrian.html

Parsi faith:http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html

Keynesian Economics http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Glossary/KeynesEc.html

Bandung Conference http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/BandungC.html

Aime Cesaire http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Cesaire.html

Marcos: http://images.google.com/images?q=subcomandante+marcos&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

The Zapatista Movement: http://www.chiapaslink.ukgateway.net/ch1.html

Mohammed bin Abdullah Hassan(Note this is a British account of events in Somaliland, so keep in mind its Eurocenteric bias): http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/mike/madmullah1899.htm

Marcus Garvey http://www.swagga.com/marcus.htm

Pan Africanist Movement http://www.fact-index.com/p/pa/pan_africanist_congress.html

Robert Sobukwe: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/sobukwe,r.htm

Patrice Lumumba http://www.africawithin.com/lumumba/patrice_lumumba.htm

Guevara, Che (1928-1967) http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/biography.htm

Negritude Movement: http://french.about.com/library/bl-negritude.htm

Léopold Sédar Senghor http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.radio-france.fr/parvis/senghor.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsenghor%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

Wole Soyinka http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/soyinka/soyinkabio.html