African American Literature
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The OPAL Catalog - Contains the holdings of Otterbein's Library
Suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings might be:Afro-American - Novelists
Afro-Americans in Literature
American Fiction - Afro-American Authors
American Fiction - Afro-American Authors - History and Criticism
American Literature - Afro American Authors
Harlem Renaissance
Literature - Black AuthorsOhioLINK Central Catalog - the combined catalog of 80 + academic libraries in Ohio. You can request books and they will be delivered to the Library circulation desk within an average time of 4 working days.
WorldCat - Provides access to over 44 million records of books and materials from libraries around the world. You can request books if they are not available through OhioLINK, but they will be sent by mail, and delivery will take longer.
20th Century African-American Poetry - 12,000 poems by more than 100 African-American poets, with biographical profiles.
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 - Almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The poets are among those in the William French et al. bibliography, including Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - from the New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, digital Schomburg.
American Verse Project - from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative that includes African American poets if you search by name or poem title.
Project for the History of Black Writing at KU - from the University of Kansas. You can download their bibliography of novels and poetry by Black authors.The Zora Neale Hurston Plays - from the Library of Congress.
Locating Secondary Sources for Book Reviews & Criticism
MLA 1963 to present - The MLA International Bibliography is the most comprehensive database for literary criticism. It indexes journal articles, books, parts of books and dissertations.
Academic Search Complete - an interdisciplinary database that includes journals and magazines from many disciplines. Articles will include locate both book reviews, biography and criticism.
Humanities International Complete 1975 - present literary, scholarly and creative journals from 1975 to the present.
Literary Research Center - published by EBSCOhost with articles, biographies, reviews and books in full text.
Literature Resource Center - A combined database for biography from Contemporary Authors and The Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as reviews, criticism, bibliographies and a timeline.
Biographical Reference Sources
African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ref PS153 .N5 A32 2000
African American Writers. Ref PS153 .N5 A344 1990
African-American Writers: A Dictionary Online - from ABC-Clio
The Concise Companion to African American Literature online from Oxford Reference Online.
Literary Reference Center - from EBSCOhost containing Bloom's BioCritiques. Bloom's Major Novelists and Beacham's Research Guide to Biography & Criticism, and the Cyclopedia of World Authors and more.
Literature Resource Center - contains Contemporary Authors and The Dictionary of Literary Biography and more.
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
Ref PS153.N5 O96 1997
The Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature. Ref PN841 .S3465 1995
Reference Books for Literary Criticism
African American Writers. Ref PS153 .N5 A344 1990
The Harlem Renaissance [electronic resource] : An Annotated Reference Guide for Student Research - a NetLibrary e-book.
The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 PS153.N5 H24 1996 v.1 - 7
Masterpieces of African-American Literature. Frank N. Magill, ed. Ref PS53.N5 M264 1992
The Pen Is Ours: A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910 with Secondary bibliography to the Present.
Ref Z1229 .N39 Y44 1991
Black Literature - from Documenting the American South's Library of Southern Literature. Use the subject index to access works.
Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance - from Poets.org
Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874 - provides text and cartoons from Harper's Weekly and a simulation game.
Langston Hughes - from An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry, from the
Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Harlem Renaissance 1913 - 1937 - PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project - by Paul P. Reuben at California State University, Stanislaus; a chapter on the Harlem Renaissance.
Stone Center Guide to the Web - from the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Voices from the Gaps Women Artists and Writers of Color - from the English Department of the University of Minnesota.
VG, Artist Biographies: African American - University of Minnesota.
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