Twentieth (20th) Century African-American PoetryThis link opens in a new windowNow offered as part of the American and English Literature Collection.Contains 12,000 poems by more than 100 African-American poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and emerging poets. Biographical profiles accompany each poets work.
African-American Odyssey (American Memory Collection)This link opens in a new windowThe Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times.
American & English Literature (OhioLINK)This link opens in a new windowFull text of books and other sources of poetry, drama and prose originally published in print. Also includes 21 historic editions of the Bible in English.
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35 Volumes of New Contemporary Literature Titles from Salem Press relating to Fantasy/Science Fiction, Contemporary Literature, World Philosophy, Quotations In Context, Religious Literature, and Biographies of Nobel Literature Prize Winners
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This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity and self-representation.
Publication Date: This online edition was reviewed and selectively updated by the original authors in 2011.
This abridged and updated edition of the acclaimed Oxford Companion to African American Literature presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works.
This ist is curated by PEN America’s World Voices Festival team and features a mix of classic and contemporary novels, essay collections, and poetry collections
Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
A list of African-American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles.