Special Literatures

Malay literature

• General resources & Relevant websites
• Newspapers
• Authors & Works
• Literature by genre
• Courses & Teaching resources
• Electronic journals
• Professional bodies & Associations

• General resources & Relevant websites 
• Reference resources 
• Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias
• Directories

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Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
Developer: Piet Wesselman
A "selection of useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books." Topics also include Sources for real and electronic texts, Literature from many countries, Literature & the Other Arts, Literary journals, Some prominent periodicals and Great writers and poets. 

BUBL LINK: 800 Literature and rhetoric
http://link.bubl.ac.uk/literature/
Developer: BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University
Covers general Literature links as well as specific literatures: English, American, Germanic, Hellenic, other European literatures. Also has a section on literatures of other languages.

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Literature and Books
http://lii.org/search/file/literature
Developer: California State Library
Contains annotated links to Internet resources for Literature categorized under Books (best of...), Directories, Databases and Specific resources. Links to other categories (Awards, Book reviews, Genres, Full-text, Poetry, Writing) may be reached from the main index.

The Literary Web (IS 490)
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jbh/litweb.html
Developer: Antoinette Arsic, et al.
A hypermedia guide to literary resources available on the World Wide Web that  is geared toward readers of fiction and poetry as well as those who write it, and those who teach it. Categories include Authors, Books, Children's literature, Journals, Literary resources, Poetry, Writing resources.

Literature(Argus Clearinghouse)
http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/Arts___Humanities
/literature?kywd++
Developer: Argus Clearinghouse
Literature is defined here as the writings of a period, language or people, especially those preserved for beauty of style or thought. Topics included are: American literature, children's literature, classics, English Literature, fiction, literary resources, literature, mysteries, poetry, postmodernism, science fiction, and Shakespeare.

Literature (Humanities)
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature.html
Developer: Galaxy
Contains numerous links to authors, hypertext fiction, poetry, writing, academic organizations, articles, collections, directories and periodicals.

Literature Webliography
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit.html
Developer: Steven R. Harris, Louisiana State University Libraries
Categories in this virtual library include general guides, bibliographies, library catalogs, dictionaries, discussions, organizations, periodicals, style guides, electronic guides, electronic texts and individual authors.

NISS Directory of networked resources: Languages. Linguistics. Literature
http://www.niss.ac.uk/cgi-bin/GetUdc.pl?8
Developer: National Information Services and Systems, United Kingdom
The resources in NISS's Web service can be found by browsing an alphabetic or UDC list or by performing a keyword search. 

Social Sciences & Humanities INFOMINE
http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/liberalsearch.phtml
Developer: Library of the University of California, Riverside
This site of scholarly Internet resource collections in social sciences, humanities and general reference has a search facility as well as browse features which will lead to annotated links in literatures and related resources.

The WWW Virtual Library: Humanities - Language/Literature
http://www.hum.gu.se/w3vl/lang.html#h6b
Developer: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Göteborg University.
This Index contains many useful links.

The Internet Book Information Center
http://www.internetbookinfo.com/
Developer: W. Frederick Zimmerman, Internet Book Information Centre
This guide (aka the IBIC Guide to Book Related Resources on the Internet) includes sections on Authors, Publishers, Booksellers, Libraries, Readers, Mailing Lists, Book Reviews, Rare Books, On-line Books and Magazine, Poetry, Short Stories, and Web Review Databases. 

Yahoo! Arts: Humanities: Literature
http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/literature/
This is the Yahoo directory to thousands of links to sites on literature.

The LOGOS Dictionary
http://www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/sp?lg=EN
Developer: Logos Group
A mutating international dictionary (spanning several languages) maintained by a large group of professional translators.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Developer: Robert Beard, Bucknell University
Linked to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages.Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary, 10th Ed. 

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Yahoo! - Arts: Humanities: Literature: Institutes: College and University Departments
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Institutes/College_and_University_Departments/
This is the Yahoo list and links to literary studies departments, mostly English literature.

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Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Events
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Events/
Contains list of literary events and links to other events including conferences, seminars, festivals, book fairs, and author events.

Yahoo! - Social Science:Communications:Writing:Conferences
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/Writing/Conferences/
This site provides links to Writers/Writing Conferences and other events.

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Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Journals
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Journals/
Contains a listing and links to literary journals in the web.

Zines (Books in Chains)
http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~RETTBESR/zines.html
Developer: Scott Rettberg 
This is a listing of links to Literary Magazines on the web divided into Zino (Web Affairs), University Associated Lit Mags, Small Press Lit Mags, Commercial Mags.

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Center for Electronic Texts in Humanities (CETH)
http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/
Developer: Rutgers University
The CETH was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in 1991 to provide a national focus for those involved in creating, disseminating and using electronic texts in the humanities. This includes works of literature (prose, verse, drama) A gateway to a very large number of important works.

Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Developer: University of Virginia
This site is an on-line archive of thousands of electronic texts which include Middle English texts, Bibles and Biblical materials, several Latin and French texts, and Modern English texts. 

The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Developer: John Mark Ockerbloom 
This listing of some 6000 titles of electronic texts may be searched by author, title or subject. Other than English, its archives also contain foreign language links.

Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ox.ac.uk/
Developer: University of Oxford
"The Archive contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It contains collections and corpora of unpublished materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects worldwide. The total size of the Archive exceeds a gigabyte and there are over 2000 titles in its catalogue..."

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/links.html
Developer: Project Gutenberg & PROMO.NET
This site makes available collections of electronic texts especially classic literature. "Project Gutenberg has blazed the path for making classic literature available electronically".

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Liszt: Humanities
http://www.liszt.com/select/Humanities/

Liszt: Books
http://www.liszt.com/select/Books/
A database of listservs with subcategories: Classics, Genres, Life and Works of ..., Poetry, Science Fiction, Writing, etc.

Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Usenet
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Usenet/

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General resources & Relevant websites

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
http://dbp.gov.my/
Developer: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
This is the homepage of the Institute of Language and Literature with contents including Galeri Sastera, Galeri Bahasa,  Galeri Penulis, etc.

Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
http://ib.edu.my/
Developer: Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
This site contains topics: Classical Malay Literature, Modern Malay Literature and Malay Literary Criticism.

LontarWeb: Laman Web Pengajian Melayu
http://lontarweb.umlib.um.edu.my:8080/ 
Developer: Perpustakaan Universiti Malaya and Akademi Pengajian Melayu, Universiti Malaya. 
Dibina berasaskan tiga buah pangkalan data iaitu: Bibliografi Pengajian Melayu (20,000 rekod), Direktori (biodata tokoh-tokoh, cendekiawan dan penyelidik dalam bidang Pengajian Melayu) dan Sumber Internet  (alamat laman-laman web yang berkaitan dengan Pengajian Melayu).

The Malay Book Collection At The ANU
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/hikayat
Developer: Raimy Che' Ross
A catalogue of images documenting a selection of rare Malay books from the Menzies Library at the Australian National University. The selection of Malay texts presented here include Sejarah Melayu, Syair Bidasari, Hikayat Putri Balqis, Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah, Syair Karangan Cheki and Syair Sinyor Laila. Images on the page may be zoomed in for a detailed look, and this would enable viewers to actually read the text in its original Jawi-Arabic script with ease. The page also provides a transliteration of certain sections of the text which have been referred to and a sypnosis of the Malay tales examined. (See also under individual texts).

KampungNet: the Singapore Muslim Community Page
http://www.pointpub.com/kampungnet/
Developer: Point Publishing Pte Ltd 
The Malay Language and Literature section include sudut sastera (literary corner), sastera lama (pantun, syair, gurindam) and common Malay proverbs. Profiles and selected works of  Abdul Ghani Hamid, Hj Muhammad Ariff Ahmad (Mas), Masuri S. N. are also included.

Malay Condordance Project
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/ahcen/proudfoot/MCP/Welcome.html
Developer: Ian Proudfoot, Australian National University
Searchable database of classical Malay texts. "You may use these pages to look for words and contexts occurring in a selection of classical Malay texts -- at present nearly a million words." 

Pusat Manuskrip Melayu
http://www.pnm.my/services/manusk.htm
Developer: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia
This web page is about the original Malay manuscript collection at the National Library of Malaysia.

Bibliotheekdiensten UL
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/ub-digi.htm
Developer: Leiden University Library
The catalogue of the Leiden University Library which contains many Malay manuscripts.

Concordances and Classical Malay
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/ahcen/proudfoot/pub/CCM.html
Article "published in 1991 in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde vol. 147, pp.74-95. Some of its perspectives are now dated, but the main issues remain pertinent".

Newspapers

Malay Newspaper Catalogue
http://arkib.gov.my/html/ktlog10.html
Developer: Arkib Negara Malaysia
This site contains the catalogue of  Malay language newspapers and journals/magazines.

cyBerita
http://cyberita.asia1.com.sg/
Developer: Berita Harian Singapura
A Singaporean Malay Daily with poetry and short stories in its Literature and Culture columns.

Suara  Merdeka
http://www.suaramerdeka.com/
Developer:PT SUARA MERDEKA PRESS
Indonesian Daily.

KOMPAS Cyber Media
http://www.kompas.co.id/
Developer: Kompas Cyber Media
This KOMPAS web site also contains its daily newspaper.

Authors & Works

Hikayat Putri Balqis
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/putri.html
Developer: Raimy Che' Ross
Description of the text (dated 1881, published by Gerth Van Wijk, Leiden) and a transliteration from Jawi to Rumi of Chapter One.

Kisah Pelayaran Munshi Abdullah
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/pelayaran.html
Developer: Raimy Che' Ross
Description of the 1889 Dutch compilation of “Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi dari Singapura sampai ke negeri Kelantan terkarang olehnya dan Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke negeri Jeddah”, found at the Menzies Library, ANU.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer
http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/prampage.html
Developer: Alex G. Bardsley
Website dedicated to Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer. It is intended primarily as a research tool. It contains photos, biographical and bibliographical information, essays and interviews in translation, news reports and book reviews, abstracts, articles and letters, and many other links

Sejarah Melayu
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/sejarah.html
Developer: Raimy Che' Ross
A description with transliteration and images of the original text dated ca. 1831 published by The London Missionary Society Press. The Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals) is believed to be one of the most important example of classical Malay prose to be ever produced.

Syair Bidasari
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/bidasari.html
Developer: Raimy Che' Ross
Synopsis of the tale and description of the 1844 text published by W.R. Van Hoevell, Batavia (Java ).

Literature by genre

The Hikayat Genres
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/malay/genre.html
Developer:Raimy Che' Ross
Looks at the different genres in Malay "Hikayat" Literature adapted from Kesusasteraan Melayu Tradisional (Traditional Malay Literature), Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1993.

The Legacy of the Malay Letter - Taiping Exhibition
http://arkib.gov.my/malay/malay.html
Developer: Arkib Negara Malaysia
This site is the Online Exhibit Hall of "The Legacy of the Malay Letter" organised by Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism and National Archives.

Courses & Teaching resources

Malaysia
Academy of Malay Studies, Universiti Malaya
http://www.cc.um.edu.my/apm.html

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
http://dbp.gov.my/

Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu
http://www.ukm.my/ukm/faculties/atma/index.html

Institut Bahasa Melayu Malaysia
http://ib.edu.my/

School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
http://www.hum.usm.my/

Faculty of Language Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
http://www.fpbahasa.ukm.my/

The rest of the world
Asian Studies at University of Virginia
http://minerva.acc.virginia.edu/~amelc/asianstudies.html

Australian National University Faculty of Asian Studies: Indonesian Program
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/seacen/indonesia.html

Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University
http://www.lu.se/ace/

Cornell University Department of Asian Studies
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/asian/

International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University)
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
http://www.iseas.ac.sg/

Malay Language and Culture Unit, Nanyang Technological University
http://www.ntu.ac.sg/arts/malay/

National University of Singapore, Department of Malay Studies
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/malay/

NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)
http://nias.ku.dk/

Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
http://corn.cso.niu.edu/acad/cseas/index.html

Sophia University, Faculty of Foreign Studies (Japan)
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/

Southeast Asian Studies, Rangsit University, Thailand
http://www.scs.unr.edu/~usac/sthai.html

SOAS: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
http://www.iseas.ac.sg/

University of Pittsburgh, Asian Studies Program
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asp/

University of California, South and Southeast Asian Studies
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/

Electronic Journals

Majalah DBP
http://dbp.gov.my/dbp98/dbp98.htm
Developer: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
This site contains synopses and  some full text of articles from journals published by Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka including Dewan Budaya, Dewan Sastera and Malay Literature.

Professional bodies and associations

The Association for Asian Studies
http://www.aasianst.org/
Developer: Jon Wilson
The AAS website is an official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate site and contains a bibliography of Asian Studies online. 

Lontar  Organization
http://www.lontar.org/
Developer: Lontar Foundation
This website contains the programs, publications, and activities of the Lontar Foundation, "a private not for profit organization established in 1987 for the purpose of promoting appreciation of Indonesian literature and culture ..."

NZ Asian Studies Society
http://www.nzasia.waikato.ac.nz/
"The New Zealand Asian Studies Society is a wholly independent body that since its establishment in
1974 has sought to encourage the spread of knowledge about Asia, its history, its culture and its role
in international affairs." 

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Bibliomania, The Network Library
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Developer: Data Text Publishing Ltd 
This site has links to literature and language references, fiction and non fiction, and poetry.

Books in Chains
http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~RETTBESR/links.html
Developer: Scott Rettburg
The links collected here relate to Literature, Authors, Drama, Film, Writing, and Literary Magazines on the net. Books in Chains is divided into three main pages: General English Resources, Author Pages and Literary Mags/E-Zines.

The English Server
http://eserver.org/
Developer: English Department, Carnegie Mellon University
The English Server is a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. It offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests. "A veritable treasure trove of literature and culture".

The Great Books of Western Civilization
http://www.ilinks.net/~lnoles/grtbks.html
Developer: Mercer University 
Selection of texts of the Mercer University Great Books Program, modeled after the course of study at St John's College. Works are in English unless otherwise noted.

Links to places literary
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/favelink.htm
Developer:  Rob Watt
A long, unannotated but well chosen listing of British/U.K. and North American and other literary sites including text archives. Probably of most value for its U.K. listings.

Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Developer: Jack Lynch
This site contains a search facility for links to literary resources. Categories include Classical & Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, American, Theatre & Drama, etc. 

My Virtual Reference Desk - Books and Literature
http://www.refdesk.com/books.html
Developer: Bob Drudge
Provides links to an alphabetical listing of sites related to books and literature.

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Developer: Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara
This English Literature site includes works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature. Other literatures written in English and minority literatures pages are also included. The "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research" is woven by Alan Liu. Highly recommended.

The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource Homepage
http://www.zuzu.com/
Developer: Acclaimed Web Marketing & Design.
"With 7000+ organized links to helpful resources for writers, artists, performers, and researchers". Also contains link to their fully electronic publication of Zuzu's Petals Quarterly (established 1991).

   Reference resources

Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
Developer: Columbia University, Academic Information Systems (AcIS), Bartleby Library
Based on the 9th ed. of  Bartlett's Familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. 

OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
http://www.onelook.com/
Developer: Robert K. Ware, Study Technologies
An Index of 2,299,280 English words in 461 dictionaries - a very useful resource.

Oxford English Dictionary
http://www.hti.umich.edu/dict/oed/
Developer: Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
For subscribers only.

Roget's Internet Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/
Developer: Lexico LLC
The online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.

Directories

English Department Worldwide
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.htm
Developer: David Hoover, Department of English, Hoover University
A worldwide hyperlink list of over 1,300 English Department homepages.

English Departments Online
http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/engdep.html
Developer: Tom Goldpaugh, Marist College.
An excellent annotated list of links for U.S and Canadian Institutions.
 

Beowulf Resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/beowulf/beowulf.html
Developer: Martin Irvine, Georgetown University
Includes Bibliography of studies of Beowulf for students, Beowulf in the original Old English, Translations of the poem by Francis Gummere and Ruth Lehmann and key word search of Beowulf (in translation).

The complete works of William Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
Developer: Jeremy Hylton
This is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.This site has all the Bard's work online (plays, sonnets and poems) with links to other sites, literary criticism and text search facility.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/
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 An annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.

Children’s literature

Children's Writing Resource Center -- Writing for Children
http://www.write4kids.com/index.html
Developer: Children's Book Insider
The site contains information on writing for children, exclusive Special Reports, messaging and live chat, the latest children's bestsellers, links to other important sites and much more. CWRC is presented by Children's Book Insider, the newsletter for children's writers.

Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Developer: Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC)
This page focuses on children's literature in education. 

Electronic Resources for Youth Services
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa331/childlit.html
Developer: Erez Segal
"This web site is dedicated to reviewing WWW resources related to children's literature and youth services. These resources are aimed towards school librarians, children's writers, illustrators, book reviewers, storytellers, parents, and others interested in this area." 

CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
Developer: David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary, Canada
 A website with a guide to Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Creative writing

Inkspot: the writer's resource 
http://www.inkspot.com/
Developer: Debbie Ridpath Ohi
A writing resource and community that offer market information, tips on improving your writing, articles, interviews with professional authors and editors, networking opportunities, and a guide to the best resources for writers on the net. 

The UVic Writer's Guide
http://webserver.maclab.comp.uvic.ca/writersguide/welcome.html
Developer: Department of English, The University of Victoria
"This Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature. Includes extensive detailed information on: Essays, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words, Sources, Literary Terms Alphabetically, Literary Terms By Category, Summaries, Logic, Grammar, Marking Symbols. A good reference resource."

Writing Resources on the Internet
http://www.marist.edu/humanities/english/writers.html
Developer: Tom Goldpaugh, Marist College
This page contains links to writing centres, writing projects
The resources include online writing centres, writing projects and resources, and electronic journals on composition theory for writers, teachers of writing and students. 

Literature by genre

Classic Short Stories
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/
Developer: Gary Lindquist, 
Collection of classic short stories in full-text: Balzac, Chekhov, Dahl, London, Poe, Thurber and many others. 

Poetry (Literature)
http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Literature/Poetry.html
The Galaxy directory and search page for poetry resources in Internet.

American Literature

Mark Twain
http://marktwain.miningco.com/
Developer: Jim Zwick
This is the Mining Co. guide to Mark Twain resources.

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Authors & Works

Ben Okri Text Page
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/rbennett/okri/okritext.html
Developer: Robert Bennett, Dept. of English, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
The contents of this Ben Okri page include biographical information, primary text, secondary criticism, quotes, multimedia images, teaching tips and links to other Ben Okri information on the web.

Courses & Teaching resources

University of the Witwatersrand Department of African Literature courses
http://www.wits.ac.za/wits/fac/arts/african/co2.html

Listservs & Newsgroups

African Literature Homepage
http://www.africamissions.org/africa/afrlit.htm
Developer: Eugene Baer
Afrlit is a listserv to promote discussion of works of literature by African authors, including both past and contemporary writers and works in all genres. WWW Virtual Library Africa Section: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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Index of Chinese Classics
http://www.cnd.org:8028/Classics/index.html
Developer: CND International
Chinese Classics aims at collecting as many Chinese classic texts as possible for the benefit of the Internet community. Includes: Pre-Qin Philosophers, Poetry, Prose, Biography, Commentary, Novels, Poetry about Moon and Other Classical Literature.

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General resources & Relevant websites

WWW Virtual Library: Asian Studies: India: Literature 
http://webhead.com/WWWVL/India/india211.html
Developer: Sergio Paoli
This is a WWW Virtual Library site on Indian literature.

Indian Authors
http://authors.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa100697.htm?terms=indian
+literature&COB=home
Developer: Scott Rettberg, Mining Co.
This is the Mining Co. guide to Indian authors and Indian literature resources.

Indian Writing in English
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~anoop/indian.literature.html
Developer: Anoop Sarkar
This page contains several links to Indian authors who write in English and to sites that talk about Indian literature.

Authors & Works

Salman Rushdie
http://www.crl.com/~subir/rushdie.html
Developer: Subir Grewal
This site contains information about his published works and numerous links to other pages about the author and his works.

Listservs & Newsgroups

SASIALIT: Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora
http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/play/sasialit/
Developer: Prentiss Riddle
This mailing list is for the discussion of contemporary literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), including works by authors of South Asian origin throughout the world. The primary focus of the list is on authors who work in English.

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General resources & Relevant websites

Japanese Literature
http://www.daiwa-foundation.org.uk/literature.html
Developer: Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation
This is the literature section of some useful links from the Bridge to Japan web site.

Japanese Text Initiative
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.html
This is the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library site of the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.

Persian Literature
http://www.iranonline.com/literature/
Developer: Iran Online
Features selected works of Persian poets and writers in Farsi and/or English translation.

Literature by genre

Persian Poets, Poetry and Poetic Art
http://www.farsinet.com/poetry/
Developer: FarsiNet
This page contains a selection of poems (in Farsi and English translation) by Khayyam, Sa'adi, Hafez, Mowlavi and others.

Literature by genre

Arabic Literature
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/arabic_lit.html
Developer: Columbia University
This site provides links to Arabic literature resources in Arabic or English language.

• General resources & Relevant websites
• Authors & Works 
• Listservs & Newsgroups

An Internet guide to Latin American literature
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~decooke/pathfinder.html
Developer: Douglas Cooke
This website is designed to help you find Internet resources on Latin American Literature. It attempts to bring together sites relevant to one of the most exciting areas of contemporary literature.

Authors & Works

Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/
Developer: Jorge Luis Borges Center, University of Aarhus
The Borges Center web site includes a comprehensive biblography, essays, book reviews, and a view of some manuscripts. In English, Spanish or French.

Julio Danis Cortazar
http://www.crl.com/~subir/cortazar/index.html#1994
Developer: Subir Grewal
Biography, bibliography, graphics, links to other sites, including Literatura Argentina Contemporánea.

Macondo: A Gabriel García Márquez Web Site
http://rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/gabo/
Developer: Allen Ruch
An excellent website including a biography, bibliography and links to other sites. (English)
 

Listservs & Newsgroups

Latino Listservs
gopher://clnet.ucr.edu:70/11/Researcher/Electronic/Listservers
Guides to many listservs, including literary.

Saludos Web: Hispanic Resource Center-- Mailing Lists
http://www.saludos.com/hispaniclinks/lists.html

General resources & Relevant websites

ÉCLAT: The Essential Comparative Literature And Theory Site
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/Eclat/
Developer: University of Pennsylvania
An index of well chosen sites for those interested in comparative literature. Contents include Comparative Literature at Penn, Other Web Sites of a Literary or Cultural Studies Bent, Journals, News & the Profession, Comparative Literature Programs Elsewhere on the Web, Electronic Library Sites, Theory Sites & Resources on the Web, Humanities Computing and Electronic Text Archives.

BCLA: Comparative Literature Worldwide
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/bcla/clww.htm

Electronic Journals

Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature
http://www.indiana.edu/~ycgl/
Developer: Indiana University

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture journal
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/index.html
Developer: Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, University of Alberta (Editor)
 

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