Reference Sources for Multicultural Literature
Print and Online Reference Sources:
- Literature Resource CenterA full-text literature database designed for the undergraduate student. Combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Draws from several Gale resources (such as the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism) and scholarly journals, and includes Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature.
- Literature OnlineA full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose with complementary references sources. Primary texts include English poetry from 600 to the present; American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present; English drama; English prose; articles, monographs and dissertations from the Annual bibliography of English language and literature (ABELL); full-text articles from literary journals; and biographical information on widely studied authors.
- Minority Literatures(Voice of the Shuttle)
- Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources byCall Number: Olin Library Reference PS153 M56 C66 2004+Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Contains personal and professional information on 75 American poets, including their major works, thematic concerns, and selected bibliographies of secondary sources. A list of poets by ethnicity is provided. - Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America byCall Number: Olin Library Reference E 184 A1 G14x 1999Detroit: Gale Group, 1999.
An alphabetically arranged compendium of relatively substantive, signed articles on nearly 150 ethnic and cultural populations residing in the United States. Each provides an overview of the group's history in its native country; its immigration and settlement patterns in the U.S.; its traditions, customs, beliefs, language, religion, political heritage, and social dynamics. Brief bibliographies, as well as addresses of relevant organizations, media outlets and research centers, are included. Illustrated and indexed. Contents: v. 1. Acadians-Garifuna Americans, v. 2. Georgian Americans-Ojibwa, v. 3. Oneidas-Yupiat. - The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature byCall Number: Olin Library Reference PS153.M56 G74 2005+Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c2005. 5 vols
"Included are more than 1100 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 300 scholars. While most of the entries are on individual writers, others cover seminal works, ethnic stereotypes, literary genres, the writings of particular ethnic groups, places that are prominent in ethnic histories, major historical events, key pieces of legislation affecting ethnic populations, and various other topics that form the social context surrounding multiethnic American literature." - publisher. - New Immigrant Literatures in the United States. A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage. byCall Number: Olin Library Reference PS 153 M56 N53 1996Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996
Presents a critical introduction to post-World War II immigrant literatures of the United States, including work by Asian-American, Caribbean-American, European-American, and Mexican-American writers. Sections provide a literary-cultural histories for each group, a summaries of dominant concerns of major authors, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. A great starting point for locating criticism on writers and literary works about which relatively little has been written. - American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American Writers and their Backgrounds: An Annotated Bibliography byCall Number: Olin Library Reference Z1229 E87 P36 1992Pasadena: Salem, 1992
A focused yet thorough annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works related to the four groups noted in the title, including background material such as brief narrative histories. Identifies major journals in the field, and lists individual authors and their works by race/ ethnicity. - Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults : a Bio- critical SourcebookCall Number: Olin Library PS 374 Y57 W75x 1996Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Aims to "help scholars, teachers, and librarians choose significant texts from both the past and present, and provides guidance in approaching multicultural issues as they are discussed in fiction for young adults. Included are entries for 51 writers, some of whom have nearly been forgotten, others who are just emerging. Each entry provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, while a general bibliography of works on multicultural literature concludes the book." (Publisher)