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EN 133 Resources

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Selected Electronic Books -- Periodical Databases -- Selected Books in Busse Library -- Selected Websites

Selected Electronic Books

The Asian Pacific American Heritage. New York : Garland, 1999.

Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. The Negro in American Fiction. Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Library,, 1998.

Dictionary of Native American Literature. New York : Garland, 1994.

Hubbard, Dolan. The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 1994.

Jrade, Cathy Login. Modernismo, Modernity, And The Development Of Spanish American Literature. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1998.

Lindstrom, Naomi. The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1998.

Moss, Elizabeth. Domestic Novelists in the Old South. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Page, Philip. Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African-American Fiction. Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

 

Periodical Databases
 

Ebsco Database (password required)

  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier -- Contains full-text articles for over 3,400 scholarly journals and is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database. Subject areas include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, languages, linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

FirstSearch Databases (password required)

After you key in your login and password, you will need to select again from the list of available databases on the search screen.  To do this click on the dropdown menu in: Jump to Advanced Search: Select a Database to Search.  Select the required database and begin your search. You may initiate an InterLibrary Loan request from FirstSearch databases to the Busse Library. Use the linked NOTE 13A: Searching the FirstSearch Databases for help in using the databases. 

  • ArticleFirst - Index to citations from of over 12,600 journals. Tips on using this database.
  • Literary Index -- find sources for information on writers
  • MLA -- Access to MLA Bibliographic Index of books, papers, dissertations on literature and language
  • World Almanac - Facts and figures
  • WorldCat - Over 30 million catalog records of books and audiovisuals held in libraries around the world. A good way to see if a book has been published on a topic which you may want to borrow through InterLibrary Loan. Remember to select books with at least 15 library holdings indicated. Tips on using this database.

Academic Universe: Business Information: Lexis-Nexis. (password required)

 

Selected Books in Busse Library

Ben-Amos, Dan.
Folklore genres.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, c1976. GR40 .F64

Boelhower, William Q.
Through a glass darkly: ethnic semiosis in American literature.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. PS153.M56 B64 1987

Gardaphe, Fred L.
Italian signs, American streets: the evolution of Italian American narrative.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. PS153 .I8 G37 1996

Gross, Theodore L.
A nation of nations; ethnic literature in America.
New York: Free Press, [1971]. PS535.5 .G7

Mullane, Deirdre.
Crossing the danger water: three hundred years of African-American writing.
New York: Anchor Books, 1993. PS508.N3 C73 1993

Peck, David R.
American ethnic literatures: native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers and their backgrounds: an annotated bibliography.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, c1992. PS 153.M56 P4x 1992, Ref.

Rochman, Hazel.
Against borders: promoting books for a multicultural world.
Chicago: American Library Association, 1993. PN 1009 .A1 R59x

 

Selected Websites



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