Credo Reference
Credo Reference has Topic Pages on the Harlem Renaissance, and on individual authors including Maya Angelou, Audre Lord, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Rita Dove, and Phillis Wheatley. Or, click on the logo above and use another search term such as "Zora Neale Hurston" or "Gwendolyn Brooks".
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Phillis Wheatley
- 40 Influential Black Female Authors- Black Voices, AOL Life
- African American Literature Book Club Profiled Authors
- African American Literature Webinar
- Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Black History: Language, LIterature and Journalism
- Free Ebooks from Amazon.com
- IPL2 - Internet Public Library - African American Women Writers
- Oxford African American Studies Center - Women and Literature
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets.Org- A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement
- Shomburg Library of African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Voices from the Gap: Women Writers and Artists of Color
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- Academic Search Complete - EbscohostIndexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text. Coverage dates vary.
- American National Biography OnlineThe landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.
- Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1908-1982 (H.W. Wilson)Cumulating the complete content of Book Review Digest from 1905-1982, this database provides excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
- Gale Literature Resource CenterA full-text database of literary information including literary criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, websites and periodical articles.
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- MasterplotsA classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres -- long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction -- throughout history and around the world, helping to define and critique the literary canon.
- MLA International BibliographyMLA International Bibliography is the primary database for finding articles on Literature.
- New York Times,1851-2007 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
- Oxford African American Studies CenterThe Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create a comprehensive collection of scholarship available online focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. - Oxford Reference OnlineA multi-part database of the online versions of Oxford University Press texts. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. WilsonReaders' Guide Retrospective, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the years 1890 through 1982.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Provides brief biographies of African American authors, describing their background, inspiration, literary works, and connections with other African American writers.
Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945
Chronicles the lives and works of 100 black women novelists, short-story writers, playwrights, poets, essayists, critics, historians, journalists, and editors writing in the United States between 1900 and 1945, including Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Angelina Weld Grimké, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, and Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, and profiles of neglected writers--their works deserving to be rescued from obscurity.
A comprehensive collection of African American writers includes contributions from Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and many others.
Provides 1,029 aphabetically arranged and cross-referenced entries covering the development of African-American literature from colonial times to the present.
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