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African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature.
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Campus/Remote
Black Short Fiction (Alexander Street Press)
A full-text collection of short stories from Africa and the African Diaspora.
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Drama
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights...
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Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of plays, prose, and poetry written Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Latino writers.
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Poetry
Black Women Writers (Alexander Street Press)
Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean
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Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean region during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Primary Sources
African Writers Series (Chadwyck-Healey)
Key texts of modern African literature.
[more info]
Campus/Remote
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Full text of plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights...
[more info]
Campus/Remote
[More Items of this Type]
Reference Information
Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature...
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