You will provide information about modern literature in your country. Provide the name of at least one writer from your country and what he/she has written.
Reference Materials
- Contemporary Dramatists Reference PR 737 .V5
- Use nationality index.
- Contemporary Novelists Reference PR 883 .C64
- Use nationality index.
- Contemporary Poets Reference PR 603 .C6
- Use nationality index.
- Contemporary World Writers Reference PN 51 .C6235 1993
- Use nationality index.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Reference PN 451 .D5
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century Reference PN 771 .E5 1999
- Literature of the Developing Nations for Students Reference PN 3326 .L58 2000
- Use nationality/ethnicity index.
- Magill's Survey of World Literature Reference PN 523 .M29 1993
- Use geographic index.
- Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature Reference PN 771 .T93 2003
- African Writers Reference PL 8010 .A453 1997
- Use chronology.
- Postcolonial African Writers Reference PL 8010 .P585 1998"
- Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature "Reference PJ 7510 .E53 1998
- Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Reference PQ 7081 .A1 E56 1997
- Hispanic Literature Criticism Reference PQ 7081 .A1 H573
- Hispanic Writers Reference PQ 7081.3 .H58 1991
- Latin American Writers Reference PQ 7081 .A1 L37
Books
To locate books on authors from your country do a subject seach in the Library Catalog.
These are some suggested searches:
| Search | Example
|
| authors [country description] | authors Brazilian
|
| [country description] literature* | Brazilian literature
|
| [region description] literature* | African literature
|
* or poetry, or drama, etc.
Or if you know the name of an author do a subject search with the last name first. For example: Allende, Isabel. If you are looking for writings by a particular author do an author search with the authors last name first. For example: Allende, Isabel.
Databases
- Academic OneFile
- Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
- Academic Search Complete
- This database offers thousands of full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines.
- Discovering Collection
- Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- Literature Resource Center
- Provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline.
- Magill's OnLiterature Plus
- The definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.
- New York Times and New York Times Historical
- Comprehensive coverage from 1851-present.
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