Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference collection:
The Concise Oxford companion to Canadian literature
Encyclopedia of literature in Canada
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance
Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in EnglishSearch selected dictionaries and encyclopedias from Oxford University Press:
Oxford Reference Online includes a number of works containing general information on the topic of Tomson Highway and First Nations Literature. These titles include: