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African
American Literature Research Guide
Books
Electronic Databases
Web Sites
This guide serves as a brief
introduction to the major resources found in the college library. The library
has a vast collection of books, journals, videos, and sound recordings, most of
which can be found in the online catalog. You can explore these resources when
looking for background information or doing research on a particular book or
author.
A subject heading or keyword
search on
African American literature in the online catalog will present many books in the
Chesnutt Library. Titles include:
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African American
literature: an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama.
(Main Stacks PS508.N3 A33 1993)
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Masterpieces of
African American literature. (Ref PS153.N5 M264 1992)
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The Norton
anthology of African American literature. (Ref PS508.N3 N67 1997)
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Oxford companion to
African American literature. (Ref/Main Stacks PS153.N5 O96 1997)
The library has several
databases for information on African American literature including reviews of
specific works and criticism and theory.
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Academic Search Elite
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly
journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more.
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African
American Poetry
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900.
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American Poetry
(1600 - 1900). Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the
Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
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American Slavery: A
Composite Autobiography
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States
compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
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Ebscohost
Master File Premier
Provides full text for over 1,770 general reference, business, consumer health,
general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.
NCLIVE
A core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text
electronic information and indexes.
JSTOR
An electronic database with a reliable and comprehensive archive of
scholarly journal literature covering many disciplines.
Check out the following web
sites on African American literature:
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