Reference Works (5^th floor, BYU Library, Humanities Reference area) – encyclopedias dictionaries, handbooks, and guidebooks, etc.Look on guides for recommendations of electronic and print reference sources. Some print reference sources:

• The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies / edited by Neil Lazarus.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [call # HUM REF PN 56 .C63 C36 2004]
• Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies / edited by John C. Hawley. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. [call # HUM REF PN 849 .U43 E53 2001]
• Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English [2 vols.] / edited by Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly.  London : Routledge, 1994. [call # HUM REF PR 9080 .A52 E53X 1994]

Library Catalog (for check-out-able books, etc.)

When searching the library catalog, try “advanced  search”, or (if you know the subject terms) use the “alphabetic search.”   Here are SOME subject terms for Postcolonialism (be aware that in the library catalog the term still might appear hyphenated as “post-colonialism”; however, all the variant spellings have been combined into “postcolonialism” for subject searches):postcolonialism

• "postcolonialism in literature"
• "decolonization in literature"
• "commonwealth literature"

Electronic Databases (scholarly articles, criticism, reviews, book chapters, biographies, etc.)

On the Web