AFRICAN 203: Topics in African Literature: Nuclear Families (Spring 2022) : Find Books and Literary Texts
FInd Books
Use the Library Catalog to find books. Books often provide background and comprehensive information about a topic. Books may have a single author or contain chapters by different authors and have an editor.
Useful Subject Headings
The Library Catalog records include Subjects, or tags from an official list. They describe the subject of the books or materials. It can be helpful to use these words or phrases to search for books. Some examples:
African fiction
African literature
African literature (English) -- 20th Century
African literature -- Women authors
Feminism and literature -- Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Women authors, African.
Women in literature.
Catalog records for literary texts, or anthologies/collections of texts, may have subjects such as:
African literature (English).
Translations into English.
Catalog records for literary texts, , or anthologies/collections of texts, may also have subjects indicating the genre such as:
Fiction
Poetry
Oral tradition
Folk literature
Catalog records for crtical sources analyzing literary works will have, along with African literature or genre or author name, subjects such as:
Criticism and Interpretation.
History and criticism.
Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedia of African LiteratureThis reference work covers the key historical and cultural issues in the field with over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. The date range starts from the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, with the majority of content covering the twentieth century.
Database for Literary Works
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African Writers SeriesA collection of over 300 full-text major African literary titles of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose published by Heinemann (now Pearson) since 1962. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. Each work is fully searchable for textual analysis. The collection also provides a full gallery of book covers. A wide geographic range is also represented: most of the works come from English-speaking countries in Western, Southern, and Eastern Africa, but there are also a number of volumes translated from French (from Cameroon and Cote d'Ivoire) or Portuguese (from Mozambique).