Research Guides: WRPR 172: Ecological Imaginaries (HC): Additional Primary Sources

Primary Sources Beyond Your Class Texts

Many primary sources, particularly ones on which scholars have not written before, are available in Special Collections. For additional primary works, including fiction, poetry, films, republished historical sources, and so on, you can search the Tri-College Libraries' catalog Tripod, or you can use WorldCat to find items not held by the Tri-Co.

For specific authors/artists or creative works, search Tripod by Author or Title. To discover new authors or works, browse the collections below or use secondary sources to discover new primary texts. You can also use some of the same search techniques discussed in the "Secondary Sources" tab; for example, these advanced searches that combine subject headings and/or keywords:

Online

African American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
(Use hyperlink or the "H" icon for access from Haverford; use the "B" and "S" icons to the right if trying to access to this resource from Bryn Mawr or Swarthmore.)
All Literary Collections: Literature Online (LION)
LION's online literature collections in English from 600 A.D. to the present.
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In Print

Anthologies:

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
ISBN: 9780393911558
Publication Date: 2014-03-25
The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms--from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections--with an emphasis on contemporary writers--combine to make The Norton Anthology of African American Literature an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.
The Ecopoetry Anthology
ISBN: 9781595341464
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
Presents a historical section that includes poetry written from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Iconic American poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are followed by more modern poets like Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and even more recent foundational work by poets like Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, and Muriel Rukeyser.
Wild Reckoning: An anthology provoked by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
ISBN: 1903080002
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
An anthology inspired by the fortieth anniversary of Rachel Carson's controversial and prophetic book 'Silent Spring'. The anthology features poems commissioned from leading poets - including Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion and Mark Doty - which are the fruit of discussions with scientists such as Richard Fortey and John Sulston.

Class Texts:

Arctic Voices: Resistance at the tipping point
ISBN: 9781609804961
Publication Date: 2013-10-22
First-person narratives from nearly 30 of the world's most recognised activists, writers and researchers which address the issues of climate change, resource war and human rights with stunning urgency and ground breaking research.
Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes
ISBN: 9780452273870
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. This first novel tells the story a young girl, Estrella, and her Latino family as they struggle with arduous farm labor during the summer months, and still manage to latch onto the hope of a liberating future.
Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane
ISBN: 0822962624
Publication Date: 2013-10-21
Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue.
Watershed by Percival Everett
ISBN: 0807083615
Publication Date: 2003-05-15
A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, espionage. On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Introduced by Sherman Alexie, who has taken a film option on the novel, this important novel is published in paperback for the first time.
Brokeback Mountain
ISBN: 1417030321
It's 1963, a time in the United States when the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming, and are inexorably drawn to each other.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 0374266387
Publication Date: 1988-07-01
This expansive essay shows us -- in a delighfully Swiftian mode -- what we have not yet seen of Antigua, the small island in the British West Indies where Kincaid grew up.