Subject
Research Guides
English Literature:
African-American & Caribbean Literature
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on African-American and Caribbean literature.
Background Information Sources
| Black Writers | REF PN 490 .B5455 1999 |
| Modern Black Writers | REF PN 490 .M58 2000 |
| Caribbean Women Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography | REF PN 849 .C32 1993 |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Caribbean and Black African Writers | REF PR 9205 .A52 T89 1993 |
| African-American Writers(2 v.) | REF PS 153 .N5 A344 2001 |
| Concise Oxford Companion to African-American Literature | REF PS 153 .N5 C59 2001 |
| Gale Critical Companion to Harlem Renaissance(3 v.) | REF PS 153 .N5 H245 2003 |
| A Biographical Guide to African-American Women Writers | REF PS 153 .N5 J67 1993 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations such as:
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Or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers PN 849 and PR 9205-9340 (Caribbean literature), PS 153 (African-American literature), and PS 700-3576 (individual authors).
Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
- Contemporary Literary Criticism/InfoTrac: author biographies and criticism
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Literature or Poetry.
- DMOZ Open Directory Project: Caribbean literature
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Caribbean/
provides links to various web resources - DMOZ Open Directory Project: African-American literature
http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-American/Literature/
provides links to various web resources