Literary Africa
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Course Description
This course, designed around pertinent issues and themes, will introduce students to writing from Africa, represented by region, gender, and genre. Through the critical analysis of short stories, poems, excerpts from novels, and films, students will gain an understanding of the linguistic and cultural diversity of Africa, and the various historical and cultural contexts that inspire the works studied.
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Selected Databases for Literary Research
Academic Search Complete is comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Tip: A good place to start research on most topics because it is multidisciplinary.
Humanities International Complete A comprehensive database which includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works.
Tip: Use for critical works and book reviews from academic journals and magazines.
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television that offers an easy, one-stop research experience. Users can limit search results by category-- biography, plot summary, reviews – or by subjects/themes explored in the work.
Tip: Useful for its mix of reference works and criticism, glossary of literary terms and intuitive functionality, but does not offer very full coverage of the secondary literature on primary works.
LION includes important survey works and indexes such as ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and Bibliography of American Literature (BAL. Covers works from the American Revolution to 1930). Coverage extends back to the 1920s. Periodical covered tend to be more interdisciplinary and include single-author and society newsletters and more book reviews. Includes full text biographies as well as citations to key secondary sources.
MLA International Bibliography (selected full text)
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Other Useful Databases
International Index to Black Periodicals(selected full text)
IIBP includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 to present). Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.
