African-American Studies

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:

  • Author by name
  • African American authors
  • Caribbean authors
  • African Americans in literature
  • Caribbean literature

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

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Literature or Poetry.