Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features articles by top scholars in the field, images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, maps, charts and tables, and biographies.
Literature Resource Center
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Provides biographies, bibliographies and scholarly articles on novelists, poets, essayists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of highly-studied authors.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
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A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
A New Handbook of Literary Terms by David Mikics
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ISBN: 9780300135220
Publication Date: 2007-06-01
An indispensable literary reference guide that comes at a time of formidable complexity in literary studies A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics's definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism. The Handbook also supplies a helpful map to the intricate and at times confusing terrain of literary theory at the beginning of the twenty-first century: the author has designated a series of terms, from New Criticism to queer theory, that serves as a concise but thorough introduction to recent developments in literary study. Mikics's Handbook is ideal for classroom use at all levels, from freshman to graduate. Instructors can assign individual entries, many of which are well-shaped essays in their own right. Useful bibliographical suggestions are given at the end of most entries. The Handbook's enjoyable style and thoughtful perspective will encourage students to browse and learn more. Every reader of literature will want to own this compact, delightfully written guide.
Companions and Histories
A Companion to African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781405188623
Publication Date: 2010-05-10
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres,historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches,A Companion to African American Literature presents acomprehensive chronological overview of African American literaturefrom the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins,through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leadinginto the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporaryAfrican American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and politicalideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches toAfrican American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars aswell as newer voices
The concise Oxford companion to African American literature by William Andrews et. al.
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ISBN: 9780199916498
This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and careers of writers not found in other reference works. The abridgement also includes the 150 plot summaries of major works. The editors briefly update the biographic details for author entries to include mention of major new works, death dates, and awards since the Companion's 1997 publication.
News Sources
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New York Times
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Full-text access to news articles, blog posts, videos, images, and multimedia features. Coverage from 1851-present.
Washington Post
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This is the most widely circulated newspaper published in the capital city of the United States with particular emphasis on national politics.
Access World News
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Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 8,000 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The daily newspaper of record for the Philadelphia region. Online coverage 1860 to the present.