1. Dept. Of State: International Information Programs: Publications - Outline Of Am Check out a list of annotated links to resources examining specific genres and periods of American literature. africanamerican literature, literary criticism, articles, dissertations, and general reference materials, as well as links to specific authors and includes biographical authors and/or http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/amlitweb.htm

Key Sites on American Literature American Literature - General Colonial and 19th Century American Literature and Poetry Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Poetry AMERICAN LITERATURE - GENERAL African American Literature Maintained at the University of Southern California, provides links to resources on African-American literature, literary criticism, articles, dissertations, and general reference materials, as well as links to specific genres of literature poetry, drama, novels, and short fiction. African American Literature and History Includes a brief history of African-American literature, online e-texts from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, full text poetry for several African-American poets, and online resource documents on literature by and about blacks. African American Writers: Online E-texts Includes biographical information on as well as the writings of a host of African-American writers, ranging over time from Jupiter Hammon in the 1700s to contemporary writers. American Authors on the Web A very comprehensive site from Nagoya University that presents a chronological listing of almost 800 American authors and includes biographical authors and/or writing samples for the majority of them.

2. VoS - Voice Of The Shuttle literature IN THE COLLECTION BY SUBJECT Sawyer Library, Suffolk University Below is a selected list of subject headings associated with the Collection of African American literature. specific authors, titles, or key words not listed here may be searched for by using Archer, the Sawyer Library Online Catalog. Abolitionists In literature. African American http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2746

3. Disney Educational Productions | Cyberlesson: African American Authors also focus in on famous africanamerican children's authors to look up informationabout specific authors Children's literature Meet authors and Illustrators. http://disney.go.com/educational/cyberlesson_jan01.html

Disney.com Home E-Mail Help Register ... Take a Virtual Trip! African-American Literature February is Black History Month. You can help your school celebrate Black History Month by advertising some of the great books in your public and school library written by African-American authors. This month's lesson will help you discover who those authors are and create posters or a newsletter that will help you advertise these books to other students in your school. First, you'll want to learn who some famous African-American authors are. You can begin a list by learning about award-winning books and authors. The American Library Association gives the Coretta Scott King awards every year for the best African-American literature. You can print a list of the books at the following site. Then see if you can find any of them in your library: The Coretta Scott King Award Other sites with lists of African-American literature include: African-American Voices in Children's Literature Multicultural Bibliography: African-American The Reading Connection: African-American History Month The Reading Connection: African-American History Month (for older readers) Next, you'll want to research in your school or public library which of the books are available. You might want to read and review books as a class. You can even publish your reviews on the Internet at the following site: Just for Kids Who Love Books You could also focus in on famous African-American children's authors. Here are some places to look up information about specific authors:

4. African-American Literature AfroAmerican http//vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-min.html afro-american Excellent textof sites on specific authors and african-american literature in general. http://www.coastal.edu/library/bib17.htm

African-American Literature: A Selected List of Critical Sources Locating Books Background Info. Criticism in Reference Books Periodical Indexes ... Book Reviews Note: The list focuses on resources devoted to African-American Writers. It is intended as a supplement to the " Literature: A Selected List of Critical Sources " handout, since many of these writers also appear in the resources listed on that bibliography. Locating Books: Online Catalog To locate books of criticism on an author, do a subject search , using the author's last name as the subject. Background Information: Dictionary of Literary Biography (198 vols. to date), 1978- Ref PS 221 .D5 Each topical volume contains a lengthy entry providing an overview of an autjor's life and work. This is an excellent source for locating basic information about an author. Use the index in the final volume to locate your author. Sample volumes include: v. 33 Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955 v. 41 Afro-American Poets since 1955 v. 50 Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance v. 51

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Now ! All Papers On-File Are Only $ 9.95/Page! **SAME DAY DELIVERY!** Listing Example Term Papers ... EXAMPLE TERM PAPERS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE Black Authors, Pale Voices / Black Struggle for Articulation in America Afrolit.wps The Spirit of Place in the African American Experience An 8 page paper examining three novels Huckleberry Finn, Love is Medicine , and Beloved and treating the issue of what constitutes a good place, a spiritual home, in all three works. Huckleberry Finn and Beloved are dealt with most extensively. No sources except books. Belov.wps Truman Capote’s "In Cold Blood " : A 4 page paper that discusses the literary significance of Truman Capote's non-fictional novel and demonstrates that his utilization of the novel format does not detract from the factual or historical accuracy of the Clutter murder case in Holcomb, Kansas. Coldbloo.wps Toni Morrison’s "Beloved" / Issues Of Slavery and Motherhood

6. African-American Literature - BookSpot.com Feature to Zora Neale Hurston, africanamerican authors reach audiences of Chronology ofAfrican American literature In addition to the Looking for a specific e-text http://www.bookspot.com/features/afamliterature.htm

Back to Home Bestsellers Book Awards Book Reviews ... Contact Us Free Newsletter Enter your e-mail address below: Back to Home Page Search Site Free Newsletter Link to Site Reference Desk BOOKS Authors Book Events Book Reviews Electronic Texts Industry Facts Lists Trivia OTHER SPOTS Calendars Dictionaries E-Mail Directories Encyclopedias Experts How To Maps Museums People Thesauri White Pages Zip Codes Much More... Book News BOOKS Book News Sources HEADLINESPOT Today's Top Stories Search the News News By City News By State News by Country Education News Health News Political News Sports News Weather Much More... StartSpot Network BookSpot.com CinemaSpot.com EmploymentSpot.com GenealogySpot.com GovSpot.com HeadlineSpot.com HomeworkSpot.com LibrarySpot.com MuseumSpot.com TripSpot.com Perhaps you've read Iyanla Vanzant's "Yesterday, I Cried" or Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun." While very different, both communicate the rich traditions of African-American literature. The creative forces of the African-American experience flooded the artistic world early in the history of the United States. Traversing all genres, styles and subject matter, the work of African Americans appears both in the mainstream and on the margins. From Toni Morrison to Marcus Garvey and Chinua Achebe to Zora Neale Hurston, African-American authors reach audiences of all ages and ethnicities.

7. Find Background Information For Literature Topics (Library Research Guide) Short to medium length articles about specific writers, including life and works ofmany famous European authors. Masterpieces of africanamerican literature. http://www.bridgewater.edu/departments/library/newguide/litback.htm

Find Background Information for Literature Topics Library Research Guide ON THIS PAGE When you first start researching a literature topic, it helps to have some background information in mind. What themes are common for the author, place, genre, or time? What people, places, or things were influential for the author. What do other people think about the writing? Great places to find this background information are reference works encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, and more. Subject Encyclopedias for Literature Guides to Criticism Plot Summaries Action Item SUBJECT ENCYCLOPEDIAS FOR LITERATURE Title Call Number American Writers . 10 vols. + supplements. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974- This set contains literary biographies of selected American writers up through the present. The entries are critical and interpretative. Bibliographies at the end of each signed article include the author’s works as well as a list of critical and biographical studies. R 810 A512 British Writers . 8 vols. + supplements. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979- This set contains literary biographies of selected British writers up through the present. The entries are critical and interpretative. Bibliographies at the end of each signed article include the author’s works as well as a list of critical and biographical studies.

8. American Literature sites at the English page Also see sites on specific authors at the Be sure to clickon authors at the bottom to see essays on africanamerican literature. http://www.wade.org/AmericanLit.htm

AMERICAN LITERATURE Also see general literature sites at the English page Also see sites on specific authors at the Authors page Also see sites for help on researching and writing papers at the Grammar, Research and Writing page General Resources 17th and 18th Century 19th Century 20th and 21st Century ... Links General Resources Outline of American Literature http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/index.htm PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide - a good starting place, well-organized http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/TABLE.HTML The Humbul Gateway , International Resources for the Humanities http://users.ox.ac.uk/~humbul/index.html Modern Fiction Studies - online scholarly journal http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/mfs/ Library of American Authors on the Web http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html American Literature I Index: From Earliest Times to 1865 - combination of articles and links http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/amerlit1.htm

9. Literature Resources@Web English Teacher literature A very extensive collection of links to specific authors. literature Life The Givens Collection africanamerican literature in historical http://www.webenglishteacher.com/litgeneral.html

General Literature Resources Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts A searchable collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. AllReaders.com You remember the book, but the title and author escape you? Try this search tool, which asks for details, then generates a list of possible matches. American Studies, Black History and Literature An impressive collection of writing by and about African Americans. Banned Book Quest Students investigate the history of censorship in relation to four specific titles. They assume one of four roles in a hypothetical situation and make recommendations. Banned Books Week at the American Library Association This site contains a variety of links to resources, including a list of the Top 100 Banned Books, 1990-1999. (The Harry Potter series, which is #1 "Most Banned" for 1999, weighs in at #48 for the whole decade.) Book-A-Minute Classics , just for fun. I have to admire a site that can condense Moby-Dick to four lines of dialogue and two stage directions!

10. English And American Literature - Undergraduate Courses At Canterbury 2003 - Uni allow you to focus on specific authors and their African, South African, Indian,africanamerican or Irish Poetry), and two further literature modules (60 http://www.ukc.ac.uk/studying/undergrad/subjects/ealit.html

text only Search: All courses All of UKC Undergraduate courses at Canterbury 2003 English and American Literature You are here: UKC home studying undergrad subjects This full-time programme is taught within the School of English . You can also study this programme on a part-time basis. Degree programmes Level 1 Level 2/3 Teaching ... Entry requirements English and American Literature at Kent is a challenging, flexible, and wide-ranging course. It covers not only traditional areas (such as Shakespeare or Dickens) but new fields such as African and Caribbean literature, and developments in literary theory. At Kent you shape your own degree: Level 1 allows you to experiment by combining compulsory modules on literature and critical theory with options from over 100 modules, ranging from philosophy to art history. At Level 2 you select broad surveys of English and American literature from the medieval period to the present day that introduce a wide range of texts, cultures and critical approaches. At Level 3 you have the opportunity to explore more specialised topics, to follow your own research interests and do some creative writing. At Kent we encourage lively discussion and independent thinking, and aim to develop your analytical and writing skills. English is a major subject at UKC and you will be part of a strong, identifiable and energetic student body: English students are active in the student magazine, the University radio station, theatre and creative writing, and the Literary Society.

11. English And American Literature - Undergraduate Study In Canterbury 2002 - Unive allow you to focus on specific authors and their African, South African, Indian,africanamerican or Irish Poetry), and two further literature modules. http://www.ukc.ac.uk/clearing/undergrad/subjects/ealit.html

text only Search: Clearing at Kent - Canterbury Prospectus English and American Literature You are here: UKC home clearing undergrad subjects This programme is taught within the School of English Degree programmes Part I Part II ... Entry requirements At Kent we encourage lively discussion and independent thinking, and aim to develop your analytical and writing skills. English is a major subject at UKC and you will be part of a strong, identifiable and energetic student body: English students are active in the student magazine, the University radio station, theatre and creative writing, and the Literary Society. Back to top Degree programmes Single Honours English and American Literature English (Q300) English, American and Postcolonial Literatures (Q302) Joint Honours Back to top Part I In your first year at Kent you have the opportunity to explore English with other subjects which may be new to you. All English students take at least one of two year-long English modules. Romanticism and Critical Theory (compulsory for Single Honours students) examines authors such as Keats and Austen, the contexts in which they wrote, and how we interpret literature and the role played by literature in society. Early Drama starts with a look at drama from the middle ages to the 16th century and ends with a project. This often takes the form of student productions of plays on the course.

12. Anglo-American Literature And Comparative Literature courses about specific authors and chronological to the works of individual authors. african-american literature 4 Children's literature Bibliography 4 http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/cdangloamerican.html

Anglo-American Literature and Comparative Literature Clientele: Cornell's English Department offers courses about genres (utopias, folklore, detective story) as well as traditional courses about specific authors and chronological periods. The departments of English and Comparative Literature emphasize the history and analysis of critical theory (e.g., feminism, semiotics) as related to popular culture as well as the canon. The collection serves other departments, including Theatre Arts, Linguistics, the Society for the Humanities, Women's Studies, and African Studies and Research. Existing collection ECS 4 Lang W The current collection covers all British, U. S., Australian and Canadian literatures and language, plus basic English-language titles from the Pacific Islands. Historically, Anglo-American literature was collected at a research level with 4+ strength in the Medieval and 18th century portions of the collection. Major exceptions to level 4 coverage have been Celtic language and literature, journalism, and Australian and Canadian literature; some areas of these holdings are at a research level, but overall they support a level 3 (instructional) level. Current collection CCI 4 Lang W Primary texts, bibliographies, and secondary criticismin that orderare all necessary to maintain the collection at a 4 level. Primary texts are mostly in English, but our holdings of secondary works represent all major European languages. As the purchasing power of funding declines, we have bought fewer critical works in foreign languages. However, a special effort is made to acquire all scholarly titles treating themes and motifs in literature, and journals devoted to the works of individual authors . Titles from selected small presses are received on blanket order .

13. St. Philip's College Learning Resource Center African-American Literature Guide scholarly journals pertaining to literary authors and topics. 1997) Provides historicalinformation about africanamerican literature, specific social, cultural http://www.accd.edu/spc/lrc/LRCResou/guides/afroam.htm

LRC Resources Events Online Catalog Laptops Ask a Reference Question Library Guides Tutorials Library Instruction Request Net Resources Electronic Databases Search Tools Links by Subject Other Libraries Distance Learning LRC Information Mission Statement Services Communicate With Us LRC Policies Literary Resources African-American Literature Basic Library Tools: Library of Congress Classification PN Literature PN 80-99 Criticism PN 1010-1551 Poetry PN 6099-6110 Poetry Collections PQ Romance Literature PR English Literature PS American Literature PT Germanic Literature Z Bibliography Library Science Z 1201-4980 National Bibliography Z 5051-7999 Subject Bibliography Online Catalog Access Points Author Title Subject Keyword Call Number Suggested Access Points Keyword access is the most flexible of the access points because it allows you to combine terms in almost any manner desired. In the event that you can not locate information using one of the other access points, change to a keyword search. With a keyword search you may get many results that are not relevant to your need and miss materials that are relevant. Use a keyword search to get a broad list of items that may be relevant. Browse through the results until you find an item that is right on target with your need and click on a subject field in the record to do a search that will lead you to additional materials on your topic.

14. English 150-18 Homepage These are more specific works that may help you in writing your CrossCultural literature. Thereis a wide selection of african-american writing by the authors http://www.wpunj.edu/courses/eng150/intolit.htm

English 150-18 Introduction to Literature Spring 1996 Professor: Richard Varron Monday/Friday 8:00-9:15am, X103 595-3307 Comments to rich@wpc.wilpaterson.edu Click For Background on Instructor LAST UPDATE : April 18, 1996 Welcome to the Introduction to Literature homepage. On this page you can find some of class handouts, links to sites that discuss specific writers and links to other source material that you can use for class assignments. Texts: Literature and Society , 2nd Ed. P. Annas and R. Rosen Borderlands/La Frontera , Gloria Anzaldua, Aunt Lute Books, 1987 The Wasteland and Other Poems , T.S. Elliot. Harvest / HBJ. The goal in this course is to explore different forms of literature written by women and men from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, social classes, and historical periods. This will include the development of English Literature, Modernism, Feminist Literature and Literature From a Cross-Cultural Perspective. We will also examine different schools of literary criticism as well as examine several writers in depth. Handouts Links to Specific Authors Other Resource Material Handouts Course Outline Course Bibliography Richard Varron's Thesis Paper Indo-European Languages ... African American Literature Handout (UPDATED: APRIL 7,1996 to include Post-1900

15. Juniorlinks selected authors Lee and Low africanamerican Books Sites literature Sites GeneralAmerican literature sites and computer lab machines for specific sites about http://www.connally.org/chs_library/chs_library/juniorlinks.htm

Junior Research Papers American Literature In addition to the links on this page, don't forget the other links on the On-Line Resources pages. Integrated Resources in American Literature Contains links to many author web pages as well as electronic texts Contemporary American Poetry Archive CAPA is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers The Poetry Society Contains links to many poetry and author sources Poetry Society of America Has poetry journals, book publishers and literary organizations Cyber Guides to American Literature Contains guides to many novels by American authors. Contains links to literary criticism sources for these works SCORE site for Literature Every era of American literature from the Puritans through the 20th century Literature and Culture of the 1950s in America Many articles written in and about the 1950s era of American history Heath Anthology of American Literature Online From the Colonial period to the 20th Century, this is a source of literature and background information

16. Research Guide: African-American Literature works of literature by africanamerican authors, arranged alphabetically by A Handbookfor Afro-American literature. concise summaries of specific novels, plays http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/ref/guides/lit/AfricanAmericanLit.html

Research Guide: African-American Literature CONTENTS Black Studies Databases at BC Relevant BC Libraries' Comprehensive Guides Relevant BC Libraries' Indexes and Periodical Databases Electronic Journals ... Plots/Summaries/Essays Black Studies Databases at BC Libraries restricted to the BC community African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century This database provides the complete word-for-word texts of major 19th century African-American newspapers. African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. African American Studies - History Universe Includes major federal legislation relating to the slave trade, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action and issue related to race relations (1792-1994); U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional issues raised by slavery, reconstruction, Jim crow laws, school segregation, job and housing discrimination, and affirmative action programs (1806-1999); autobiographies of prominent African-Americans; manuscript materials; reference and scholarly articles; photographs; speeches; and government documents. International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) IIBP includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, andthe Caribbean. It also includes full text coverage of twenty-five core Black studies periodicals from 1998 forward. The database is international in scope and multidisciplinary, covering cultural, economic, historical, religious, social and political issues. Retrospective citations in the database date as far back as 1902.

17. Black Authors .. Essays On African - American Literature .. Essays And More Essa concepts are depicted in two specific works, The The writer contrasts the authors’description of the africanamerican literature The Long Arm of Slavery http://www.12000papers.com/literature2.htm

The Paper Store's LITERATURE SECTION ALL OF THE FOLLOWING PAPERS ARE AVAILABLE TODAY FOR ONLY /page BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGES ARE FREE JUST CHOOSE ANY CLICK THE ORDER BUTTON!... African - American Literature Black Authors, Pale Voices / Black Struggle for Articulation in America Afrolit.wps The Spirit of Place in the African American Experience An 8 page paper examining three novels Huckleberry Finn, Love is Medicine , and Beloved and treating the issue of what constitutes a good place, a spiritual home, in all three works. Huckleberry Finn and Beloved are dealt with most extensively. No sources except books. Belov.wps Truman Capote’s "In Cold Blood " : A 4 page paper that discusses the literary significance of Truman Capote's non-fictional novel and demonstrates that his utilization of the novel format does not detract from the factual or historical accuracy of the Clutter murder case in Holcomb, Kansas. Coldbloo.wps

18. Literature A Dictionary of Sensibility africanamerican. on the Internet - Biography and literaturelinks are good specific authors AND WORKS Learning About the Author and http://library.uwa.edu/Resources/Lit.htm

Literature General Sources guides to literature and criticism on the Internet. Internet collections of literary works full-text works on the Internet. Internet collections of literary works by genre or time period Specific authors and works Online Full Text Periodicals Miscellaneous sites Explicator index and the Literary Calendar. GENERAL SOURCES Literary Resources on the Net Especially helpful with American and English literature. Librarians Index to the Internet Literature link. MIT Libraries Literature Resources Internet resources dealing primarily with American and English literature. Literary Market Place - keyword search capabilities for publishers, literary agents, trade services, and resources. Online Literary Criticism Collection search by author, work, or period to find links to online criticism, biographical information, and links to web sites about specific authors or works or literature. Voice of the Shuttle searchable site of humanities web pages Top of page INTERNET COLLECTIONS OF LITERARY WORKS Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - digital documents available for downloading in HTML and PDF format in the areas of English and American literature, as well as, Western philosophy. Documents can be searched individually or in groups.

19. Guide For Senior Thesis Writers selection includes a number of works by africanamerican and women access to a collectionof modern English language literature. Researching specific authors. http://www.brynmawr.edu/Library/Docs/SeniorThesis.html

Brief Guide to Senior English Thesis Research Bryn Mawr College - Fall, 2002 see also: Tri-College Libraries Web-Based Guides: Literature In English Contents: Research Help Finding Books Finding Journal Articles Materials on Literature and Criticism ... Citing References Research Help - Lots of assistance is available. For personal assistance with any research question Mark Colvson - mcolvson@brynmawr.edu Susan Turkel - Outreach Librarian sturkel@brymmawr.edu Florence Goff - Deputy Chief Information Officer fgoff@brynmawr.edu For quick help, call or visit the Canaday Library Reference Desk, 610 526-5279 visit LiveHelp , a live chat service jointly offered by the Tri-College libraries email your question to Ask A Librarian Finding Books Tripod start with a general keyword search, e.g. "transnational and culture" look in your search results for synonyms, related concepts and language, especially in the Subject Headings Subject Headings can include author names: "Woolf, Virginia", regional literature: "Irish literature", "South Asian literature" genre's and categories: "children's literature", "American poetry", "feminist literary criticism"

20. Disney Educational Productions | Cyberlesson: African American Authors focus in on famous africanamerican children's authors. to look up information aboutspecific authors Children's literature Meet authors and Illustrators http http://disney.go.com/educational/cyberlesson_feb00.html

Disney.com Home E-Mail Help Register ... Take a Virtual Trip! African-American Literature February is Black History Month. You can help your school celebrate Black History Month by advertising some of the great books in your public and school library written by African-American authors. This month's lesson will help you discover who those authors are and create posters or a newsletter that will help you advertise these books to other students in your school. First, you'll want to learn who some of the famous African-American authors are. You can begin a list by learning about award-winning books and authors. The American Library Association gives the Coretta Scott King awards every year for the best African-American literature. You can print a list of the books at the following site. Then see if you can find any of them in your library: The Coretta Scott King Award http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/cskawin.html Other sites with lists of African-American literature include: African-American Voices in Children's Literature http://als.lib.wi.us/AACList.html

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