Skip to Main Content

ENGL 388: Contemporary African Fiction: 21st Century African Women Writers (BMC)

English 388 (Beard) Spring 2018

Finding Articles

MLA International Bibliography
Database of scholarly books and articles related to literature, language, linguistics, film, theater and folklore. Includes scholarship from 1926 to the present.
Africa-Wide
Offers access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa including books, journal articles, maps and music recordings. Some materials are in full-text. Covers 19th century-present.
JSTOR
Access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in most academic disciplines. For journals, coverage is from first issue through three to five years ago.
Project Muse journals
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Finding Books

Keyword Search:

Subject Search:

"African literature Women authors History and criticism"

Selected books

African Women Writing Resistance by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Difficult Diasporas : The transnational feminist aesthetic of the Black Atlantic by Samantha Pinto
Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and feminism in Maghrebi women's literature by Abdelkader Cheref
Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, sexuality, and difference by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Writing African Women by Stephanie Newell (Editor); Wendy Griswold (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2017-06-15