Internet Materials Related to Postcolonial Studies:
General:
Postcolonial
Studies Page. Founded by Deepika Bahri at Emory University, this
excellent site includes pages devoted to individual
authors, theorists, and "key terms" in postcolonial studies.
Internet Resources
in Anglophone Literatures. An exhaustive list of
links pertaining to literatures in English from countries other than the
U.S. and the U.K. Compiled by Alan Liu for his "Voice of the Shuttle"
site at UCSB.
Notable links include Jouvert:
A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, a freely accessible online journal published by the College of
the Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University.
According to the statement of purpose, Jouvert "offers a widely
accessible--indeed, international--forum for the interrogation of textual,
cultural and political postcolonialisms....Our title, the Trinidadian Creole
word for the opening morning of Carnival, was chosen to suggest...the possibilities
of a second- and third-generation postcolonialism addressing the material
and discursive realities of the twenty-first century."
Resources on British (and European) Colonialism & Imperialism:
Engl 316K, "The
Development of Empire: Narratives of Colonialism and Resistance in
British Literature" (Bret Benjamin, U of Texas) (See esp.
Unit 3: "High Imperialism: 'The British Empire Colored Red.'")
Anti-Imperialism in the United States,
1898-1935. A splended site assembled and maintained by
Jim Zwick of Syracuse University. "These pages introduce the first
organizations formed to oppose U.S. territorial and economic imperialism
and make available ...a large collection of anti-imperialist literature.
Much of it was written by authors whose works are still appreciated and
studied today but whose roles in the anti-imperialist movement are not
widely known. Other literary responses, like the numerous newspaper and
magazine verses written in response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's
Burden," are restored here from near-total obscurity. These writings...represent
part of the important cultural response to imperialism."
Center For World Indigenous
Studies. CWIS
is an independent, non-profit research and education organization dedicated
to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous
peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous
nations.
Encyclopedia Britannica'sNations
of the World (HSU users only). Maps, flags, essays statistics
on individual countries.
CIA World
Factbook 2000. Country-by-country maps, statistics, demographics,
etc., brought to you by everyone's favorite global spooks.
World Map: The Peters
Projection Which is bigger, Greenland or China? With
the traditional Mercator map (circa 1569, and still in use in many schoolrooms
and boardrooms today), Greenland and China look the same size. But in reality
China is almost 4 times larger! In response to such discrepancies, Dr.
Arno Peters created a new world map that dramatically improves the accuracy
of how we see the Earth.
Official development propaganda from the World
Bank and the IMF, and a hilarious parody
from GATT.org.
