English 190: Afro-Caribbean Literature

Selected Resources for English 190: Afro-Caribbean Literature

Some relevent Subject Headings include:: Caribbean Literature (English); Caribbean Fiction (English)
Authors (Last name, first name, dates) and individual works are can be listed as subject headings.: Lamming, George; Harris, Wilson; Figueroa, Jos茅 Maria; Allfrey, Phyllis
Also, many subject headings use a subdivision for criticism:: --History and criticism [for inanimate subects]; --Criticism and interpretation [for authors]; e.g. Caribbean Literature (English) -- History and criticism.

20th ed., 4 vols., 1997.
Kept on the long table by the main bank of EZRA/Web terminals.

Subject headings will be similar to, but may be different from those used in periodical indexes.

PN    General literature 
PR    English literature
PS    American literature

Criticism
Caribbean women writers. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 1997. (Main Stacks) .
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. New York : Routledge, 1994.
: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Literary Biography
Caribbean Writers: a Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1979. Ref. PN 849 .C3 C3 1979.
Contemporary Authors. Detroit: Gale, 1962- . Semi-annual. Ref. Z 1224 .C6: This continuing set now has over 270 volumes. CA aims to include all nontechnical writers in all genres--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc.--whose works have been written in or translated into English. Includes authors deceased after 1900 who remain of interest to today's readers.
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1982- . Ref. PN 5001 .D5
Especially vols. 117, 125, 157: Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black African Writers (1st, 2nd, 3rd series).: DLB is a "cousin" to CA (above). Also a very large and growing set (over 200 volumes so far), it includes fewer people but gives extensive information on them. The latest volume has a cumulative index to the whole set.

	Indexes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations about English language and literature published anywhere in the world from 1920-1997.
(1963- ) (Remote Access)	Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over journals and series published worldwide.

	Covers academic journals in Humanities, Sciences and Social Science indexes. Because it is part of our online catalog, the article records will tell you if we own the journal in which the article appears. (Telnet access: Connect to EZRA, login as "library" and select option "D")
	This is largely a social-science databases, but covers some literature, especially as it relates to society. Includes some fulltext.
	Indexes about 2000 periodicals -- both scholarly journals and popular magazines; covers 1986-Present, with some fulltext coverage starting in the early 1990s.

At Wittenberg:

EZRA, the library catalog:

Periodicals Holdings List (PHiL) (blue folders on index tables in Reference, and also on tables on first floor)

At other Ohio academic libraries:

(Note: you cannot get periodicals through OhioLINK)