Literary Resources -- Other National Literatures
This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch. Please direct comments and suggestions to jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
I make no pretense to having a comprehensive collection of Internet sources in languages other than English: these are just a smattering. I also exclude single-author pages.
- Mailing lists
- Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview (Brown) -- An extensive collection of information on postcolonial literature and theory. Very impressive.
- European Literature -- Electronic Texts (Virginia) -- Extensive catalogue of Western European literature.
- Western European Specialists (Virginia) -- Big meta-index on Western European literature and culture.
- Australian and New Zealander:
- Larrikin's Lair: Australian Literature -- A fan's attempt to increase the visibilty of serious Australian authors.
- Aurora Australis -- A guide to contemporary Australian literature, including Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert Drewe, Marion Halligan, Robert Dessaix, Brian Castro, Carmel Bird, Richard Flanagan, David Foster, Marele Day, Delia Falconer, and Roberta Sykes.
- OzLit -- An extensive fan site on Australian literature. A section on "Research" may be useful to students.
- SETIS Australian Literature Database (Univ. of Sydney Library) -- 19th- and 20th-c. Australian texts in TEI.
- Zoetropes: New Zealand Literature
- Peter Carey Website (Rebecca J. Vaughan, Flinders Univ.) -- Brief biography, extensive bibliography, plot synopses, links, and other materials.
- Garry Disher (Ioana Petrescu, Flinders Univ.) -- Biography, bibliography, synopses, and links.
- Amy Witting Website (Yvonne Miels, Flinders Univ.) -- Biography, primary bibliography, synopses, selective secondary bibliography, and links.
- Canadian and Commonwealth:
- Dutch:
- Dutch literature (Laurens Jansz. Coster) -- Extensive set of links to information on Dutch authors. Requires frames.
- French (and Francophone):
- German:
- Indian:
- Salman Rushdie:
- Salman Rushdie (Subir Grewal) -- A useful overview of Rushdie's publications, with brief commentary. Includes links to interviews, bibliographies, and other sites. Well done.
- Salman Rushdie: An Overview (Brown) -- Collaborative project on postcolonial writers includes this incomplete and not always scholarly overview of Rushdie's life, works, and contexts.
- Notes on Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (Paul Brians, WashingtonState) -- An impressive study guide to The Satanic Verses, with links to other Rushdie sites.
- Irish:
- Italian:
- Japanese:
- Japanese Literature (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) -- very extensive list of links on Japanese literature and culture.
- Japanese Text Initiative (Virginia) -- "A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web." Includes more than a dozen texts.
- Lithuanian:
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese:
- Russian and Slavic:
- Scandinavian:
- Spanish Language:
- Turkish:
- Welsh:
- Welsh Authors (Chris Grooms, CCCCD) -- A few dozen Welsh texts, heavily annotated for those learning the language.
- General Asian:
This page, part of the larger collection of literary resources, is maintained by Jack Lynch.