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AAS 281 Black Literature: Criticism, Culture & Biography

Literary Criticism

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (REF PS 21 .D5)  eg, volume 50: Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance or volume 51: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism (REF PN 771 C62)
  • Masterplots, 4th Edition (REF PN 44 .M33 2011) eg. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man in Vol. 1, page 382-385)
  • Magill's Liteary Annual (PN 44 .M42)
  • The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (REF PS 153 ,M56 G74 2005)
  • Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 (REF PS 153 .N5 B556 2008)
  • African American Writers (REF PS 153 .N5 A344 2001)
  • American Ethnic Writers, Revised Edition (REF PS 153 .M56 A414 2009)
  • The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (REF PS 153 .N5 G73 2005)

African American Culture

  • The African American Encyclopedia (REF/E/185/A253)
  • Encyclopedia of African American Society (REF/E/185/E546)
  • Black Women in America (REF/E/185.86/B542)
  • Contemporary Black Biography (REF/E/185/C65)
  • Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (REF/E/185/E54)
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1896 (REF/E/185/E545)
  • Encyclopedia of African American Society
  • Encyclopedia of Black Studies (REF/E/185/E554)
  • Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (REF/E/185.6/E54)
  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights (REF/E/185.61/E54)
  • Notable Black American Men (REF/E/185.86/N68)

Biography

  • African American Women Writers (REF PS 153 .M5 E49 2007)
  • An African Biographical Dictionary (REF/DT/18/B76)
  • American National Biography (REF/CT/213/A68)
  • Black Americans in Autobiography (REF/E/185.96/B74)
  • Black Women in America (REF/E/185.86/B542)
  • Contemporary Black Biography (REF/E/185/C65)
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography (REF/CT/103/E56)
  • Notable Black American Men (REF/E/185.86/N68)
  • Notable Black American Women (REF/E/185.96/N68)

The Harlem Renaissance

  •  Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 (REF/PS/21/D5/V.21)
  •  African-American concert dance : the Harlem Renaissance and beyond (STX/GV/1785/A1/P47/2001)

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