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English 432 - Studies in African Literature
Library Instruction - Summer 2006
Melissa Van Vuuren
English Librarian
Office: Carrier Library, Room 130
Phone: 540.568.6937
E-mail: vanvuums@jmu.edu
Electronic Resources
Online Catalogs (books)
LEO: JMU’s library catalog. Use LEO to locate books, journals, films, and music at JMU.
WorldCat: A combined library catalog for libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to locate books, journals, films, and music that are not at JMU. Use the Interlibrary Loan services to request items.
Research Databases (articles)
Historical Abstracts: Indexes more than 2000 periodicals on world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada.
JSTOR: Includes full-text articles from journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is retrospective and does not include the most recent 2 to 5 years of issues. For the most recent issues, search for the journal title in Periodical Locator or LEO.
Project Muse: Indexes journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Contains some full-text articles.
Cultural Resources (music, film, and art)
Naxos Music Library: Naxos Music Library includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues, which include Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music.
MDID: Contains collections of digital images primarily for the teaching and study of art and art history. Includes an online video collection from the Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
ARTstor: Contains images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture covering many cultures and time periods.
CAMIO: Offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
RLG Cultural Materials: A multimedia collection of primary sources to support every discipline, gathered from archives, libraries, and museums from around the world. Contains high-quality digital versions of maps, photographs, objects, documents, art, sound, and motion.
Open-Access Websites
Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford): http://library.stanford.edu/africa/guide.html
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic.
National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian): http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html
Provides online exhibits of traditional and modern African art. Also links to Radio Africa, which provides streaming audio from the Smithsonian’s Global Sound collection.
Print Resources
Reference Sources on Africa
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Basic Civitas, 1999
Carrier Library – Reference – DT14 .A37435 1999
Encyclopedia of African Peoples. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Carrier Library – Reference – DT15 .E53 2000
Gall, Timothy L., ed. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Vol. 1. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998.
Carrier Library – Reference – GN333 .W67 1998 v.1
---. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 11th ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Carrier Library – Reference – G63 .W67 2001 v2.
Levinson, David, ed. Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vol. 9. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991-.
Carrier Library – Reference – GN307 .E53 1991
Olson, James S. The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996
Carrier Library – Reference – GN645 .O47 1996
Shillington, Kevin, ed. Encyclopedia of African History. 3 vols. New York; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005.
Carrier Library – Reference – DT20 .E53 2004
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe, and Dickson Eyoh, eds. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. New York; London: Routledge, 2003.
Carrier Library – Reference – DT29 .E53 2003
Reference Sources on African Authors and Literature
Benson, Eugene, and L.W. Conolly, eds. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Carrier Library – Reference – PR9080 .A52 E53 2005
Cox, C. Brian, ed. African Writers. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997.
Carrier Library – Reference – PL8010 .A453 1997
Gikandi, Simon, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. New York; London: Routledge, 2003.
Carrier Library – Reference – PL8010 .E63 2003
Parekh, Pushpa Naidu, and Siga Fatima, eds. Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998
Carrier Library – Reference – PL8010 .P585 1998
Lindfors, Bernth. Black African Literature in English, 1992-1996. Oxford: Hans Zell, 2000.
Carrier Library – Reference – PR9340 .L573 2000
Lindfors, Bernth, and Reinhard Sander, eds. Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vols. 117, 125, and 157. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992-.
Carrier Library – Reference – PN451 .D28 v.157
