African & Caribbean Literature
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Guides
- African Authors: A Companion to Black African Writing. Vol. 1 1300-1973. 1973. (Ref. PL 8010 H38)
- African Writers. 1997. (Ref. PL 8010 A453 1997)
- The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. 1994. (Ref. PN 2969 C36 1994)
- The Companion to African Literatures. 2000. (Ref. PR 9340 C65 2000)
- The Complete Caribbeana, 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature. 1977. (Ref. Z1595.C63)
- A Dictionary of African Mythology: the Mythmaker as Storyteller. 2000. (Ref. BL 2400 S24 2000)
- Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Civilization. 1980. (Ref. F 1408.3 N86)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African
Writers. First Series. Vol. 117. 1992. (Ref. PR 9205 A52 T88 1992)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African
Writers. Second Series. Vol. 125. 1993. (Ref. PR 9205 A52 T893 1993)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African
Writers. Third Series. Vol. 157 1996. (Ref. PR 9205 A52 T89 1996)
- Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 2 Vols. 1994. (Ref. PR
9080 A52 E53 1994)
- Fifty Caribbean Writers: a Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. 1986. (Ref. PR 9205 A52 F54 1986)
- Modern Commonwealth Literature. 1977. (Ref. PR 9080 M6)
- The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental & African Literature. 1969. (Ref. PA 31 P4 1969)
- The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature. 1996. (PR 9205.5 R68 1996)
- Selected Black American, African And Caribbean Authors: a Bio-Bibliography. 1985.
(Ref. PS 153 N5 P3 1985)
- West Indian Literature: an Index to Criticism, 1930-1975. 1981. (Ref. PR 9210
A4)
- The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Vol. 2-Americas, Vol. 3-Africa. 1994-2000. (Ref. PN 1861 W67)
Biographical Sources
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index. (InfoTrac)
- Biography Index.
1984- (WilsonWeb)
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Biography Resource Center. (InfoTrac)
- Contemporary Authors. (Ref. PN 771 C5852).
- See also Contemporary Authors New
Revision Series. (Ref. PN 771 C5852)
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Literature Resource Center. (InfoTrac)
- The Literature Resource Center incorporates Gale's
Contemporary Author series, Contemporary Literary Criticism, (CLC) and the
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Periodical Indexes
- Arts & Humanities Citation
Index. 1980- (FirstSearch)
- British Humanities Index. 1962-1991. (Ref. AI 3 B7)
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Digital Dissertations. 1861- (ProQuest)
- Essay & General Literature Index. 1900-1984. (Ref. AI 3 E752)
Essay & General Literature Index. 1985- (WebWilson)
- Expanded Academic Index. 1980- (InfoTrac)
- Ethnic Newswatch. (ProQuest)
- FRANCIS (Humanities & Social Sciences). 1984- (Eureka)
- Humanities Index. 1974-1983. (Ref. AI 3 H85)
Humanities Abstracts. 1984-
(WilsonWeb)
- JSTOR. (JSTOR)
- JSTOR has full-text articles for various African Studies journals. Follow their Browse links to view these titles.
- LexisNexis Academic. (LexisNexis)
- MLA International Bibliography. 1921-1962. (Ref. P 1 M6)
MLA International Bibliography. 1963-
(InfoTrac)
- New York Times Index. 1851- (Ref. AI 21 N45)
New York Times. 1999- (ProQuest)
Historical New York Times. 1851-2002. (ProQuest)
- Project MUSE. (Project MUSE)
- Project MUSE carries a collection of full-text journals in African and Caribbean Studies. Go to their Journals link and then Browse by Subject to see the available journals.
Journals
The following is a partial list of journals available on the second floor of the UWF library. Those with hyperlinked titles are also
available in full-text online. Online coverage dates may differ from the dates for print and microform holdings.
Internet Resources
- Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources
http://library.stanford.edu/africa/
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African Writers: Voices of Change
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/writers.htm
- This University of Florida site provides biographical
information on several important African novelists and links to pages on other prominent African poets and African children's
literature.
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Center for African Studies-University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/
- Columbia University-Area Studies-African Studies-African
Literature on the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/aflit.html
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Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/
- A work in progress this ambitious project brings together print and Internet resources on postcolonial literatures including the literatures of Africa and the Caribbean. George Landow of Brown University has also provided useful background information and bibliographies on postcolonial theory, as well as information on the politics, religions and history of the regions. Individual authors have been profiled with links to Internet resources and criticism.
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Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/verba/
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Reading Women Writers and African Literatures-University of Western Australia
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/AFLIT/FEMEChomeEN.html
- Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature-Other Literatures Written in English
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=149
- "Voice of the Shuttle" is a major
resource for research in the humanities on the web and provides sites in postcolonial studies and in African and Caribbean literature. It also
selectively points users to university projects, study guides, criticism and
primary sources on individual authors. Follow the link,
Literature in English and to go Other Literature in English in the table of contents in the right side.
Created by L. Brosnihan
Updates and Revisions by Kristy Padron, English Literature Librarian
University of West Florida Libraries
Date Last Updated: March 2006
