WR150: Southern Writers Reconsidered

Subject Headings.
Reference Works.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

african americans in literature
american fiction african american authors
american fiction southern states history and criticism
harlem renaissance
hurston zora neale
southern states in literature
wolfe thomas 1900-1938
wright richard 1908-1960

You can also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

welty eudora 1909-2001

REFERENCE WORKS.

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Civil Rights Movement. 1993.: Mugar E185.61 G8951993 Storage: Use Request Form.

African-American Writers: A Dictionary. 2000.: Mugar Ref X PS153 N5 A3444 2000
Britannica Online. (BU-px)

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel (BU-px)

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative. (BU-px)

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. (BU-px)

The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. (BU-px)

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. (BU-px)
Contemporary Fiction Writers of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. 1993.: Mugar PS261 C565 1993
The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance. 2006.: Mugar Ref. X PS153 N5 B675 2006
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5 vols. 2005.: Mugar Ref. X PS153 N5 G73 2005

A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. 2002.: Mugar PS3515 U274 Z459 2002

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. 2006 - .: Mugar Ref. X F209 N47 2006

The Oxford Companion to Women's Writings in the United States. 1995.: Mugar Ref. X PS147 O94 1995
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.: Mugar Ref. X PS21 E537 2004
William Faulkner A To Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. 2002.: Mugar PS3511 A86 Z549 2002
A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. 1999.: Mugar PS3511 A86 Z459 1999

A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. 2002.: Mugar P3515 U789 Z464 2002

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px): The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - . (BU-px).: Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (BU-px): Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Book Review Digest. 1905 - .: Cites and provides excerpts of reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Mugar Ref. X Z1219 F06.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974.: Contains citations to reviews of books and periodicals in the humanities that have appeared in scholarly journals between 1802 and 1974. Mugar Ref. X AI3 C652 Storage: Use Request Form.
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974.: Contains citations to reviews of books and periodicals in the social sciences that have appeared in scholarly journals between 1886 and 1974. Mugar Ref. X AI3 C654 1979

Contmporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography. (BU-px): Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Dictionary of Literary Biography contains detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms.
Humanities Full Text. 1983 - .(ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).: Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.

MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px): International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
Project Muse. (ChRiv-px): Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.

Readers' Guide Full Text. 1983+ (ChRiv-px).: Indexing and abstracts for more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of more than 120 of those periodicals. Full text coverage begins in 1994. For retrospective searching (1890-1982) use Readers Guide Retrospective, which indexes 375+ periodicals.

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

Selected Library Resources for WR150 - Harlem Renaissance

WR150 Research Guide

Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive.: "The primary purpose of the Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive is to provide an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston's life and work. The site also seeks to make available various teaching resources so that both teachers and students can more fully appreciate the cultural and literary richness of Hurston's numerous writings."
Zora Neale Hurston in Florida.: Compilation of Zora Neale Hurston sound recordings, Florida Memory Project, State Library and Archives of Florida.
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress.: "The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 hundred images, the scripts are housed in the Library's Manuscript, Music, and Rare Books and Special Collections Divisions."

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)