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• American literature
-- African American authors
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American literature -- African American authors
-- Bibliography
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American literature -- African American authors
-- Encyclopedias
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American literature -- African American authors -- History
and criticism
African-American
women writers
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CIRCULATING BOOKS
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Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus. The Harlem group of Negro
writers.
Westport, Conn.:Greenwood
Press, 2001. Smith, Barbara. The truth that never hurts :
writings on race,
gender, and freedom. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University
Press, c1998.
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Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, editor. The
Norton anthology of African American literature.
New York : W.W. Norton
& Co., c1997.
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Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison : a critical
companion.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press, 1998.
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Monteith, Sharon. Advancing sisterhood?: interracial friendships
in contemporary southern fiction.
Athens : University
of Georgia Press, 2000.
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REFERENCE MATERIALS
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Andrews, William L....[et al]. The Oxford companion to African
American literature.
New York : Oxford University
Press, 1997.
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Draper, James P. , editor. Black literature criticism : excerpts
from criticism of the
most significant works of Black
authors over the past 200 years.
Detroit : Gale Research, c1992.
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Magill, Frank N., editor. Masterplots II. African American
literature series.
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press,
c1994.
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Nelson, Emmanuel S., editor. Contemporary African American
novelists :
a bio-bibliographical critical
sourcebook. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
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Rush, Theressa Gunnels. Black American writers past and present
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a biographical and bibliographical
dictionary. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, [c1975].
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Whitlow, Roger. Black American literature; a critical history
with a 1,520-title bibliography
of works written by and about
Black Americans. Chicago : Nelson Hall, [1973].
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Witalec, Janet, editor. Twentieth-century literary criticism.
Detroit, Mich. : Gale
Research Co., c1978-present.
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Zott, Lynn M., editor. Short Story Criticism.
Detroit, Mich. : Gale
Research Co., c1988-Present.
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JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
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Computers and the Humanities
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English Today
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Language Arts
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American Literature
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Contemporary Literature
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World Literature Today
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Studies
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WEBSITES
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Writing
Black from the School of American Studies. Offers a list
of African American literature resources on the web in a
general format as well as author specific ones. |
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purpose of this web site is to provide the reader with a
comprehensive guide to African American Literature during
the Twentieth Century. Here, you will find over 75 novels,
poems, autobiographies, and essays along with summaries
of the selected literature. Also, we have provided you with
some significant events of each decade and the literary
themes that African American authors were writing about
during that decade. |
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From
Bluefield State College Library. This site includes several
resources in culture, literary movements, literary sites,
women writers, etc. |
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University
of Virginia offers a site with links to all major African
American electronic classical texts. Read poems, short stories,
speeches, books, etc. fully online. |
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Osaka
University Language and Culture Dept. provides a very comprehensive
site that details bibliographies, biographies, individual
author's list site, etc. Very well arranged and user friendly. |
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AUDIOVISUAL |
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Correct citations & works cited page. Dir. Neville
Cole.
Scottsdale, AZ : Teacher's Video Company,
1999?
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Crediting your sources video recording. Dir. Kathleen Cower.
New York, NY : distributed by Insight
Media, [1991?].
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Editing the paper: looking for grammatical and mechanical errors.
Dir. Kathleen Clower. New York, NY:
distributed by Insight Media, c1991.
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Gloria Naylor. Dir. Matteo Bellinelli. San Francisco,
Calif. : California Newsreel,
c1992.
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Richard Wright : writing is his weapon. Dir. Rex Barnett.
Atlanta, Ga. : History on Video, c1995
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Writing about literature: interpreting and explaining.
Dir. Kathleen Clower. Olathe,
KS : RMI Media Productions, c1991
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Writing for the humanities: the explication. Dir. Kathleen
Clower.
Shawnee Mission, KS : RMI Media
Productions, c1991. |
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DATABASES
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Full-text
access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors
from every age and literary discipline. covers more than 120,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage
of 2,500 of the most-studied authors in full-text. |
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Arts
and Humanities Citation Index
indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It contains
articles from more than 1, 300 leading journals from 1980 to the present.
It is partially full text. Found under FirstSearch. |
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Article
First is an OCLC index of articles from the contents
pages of journals in various subject areas including literature. It
contains over 12 million articles from 1990 to the present. Partially
full text. Found under FirstSearch |
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Wilson
Select Plus Provides indexed
and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles,
many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
It covers articles published from 1994 to the present. All articles
are full text. Found under FirstSearch. |
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Reader's
Guide Abstracts contains articles from popular
magazines in various topics including literature and fine arts. It
has 1.1 million articles from 1983 to the present (abstracts from 1984).
Partially full text. Found under FirstSearch.. |
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Comprehensive,
full-text, online biographical reference database covering literature,
science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics,
sports, government, history, current events and the arts. It provides
articles from reference books, journals, magazines, newspapers as well
as bibliographies and web sites. All resources are full text. |
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