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ENGL 348: Literary Works by Women: Short Fiction by Black Women Instructor: Dr. Shirley Logan Resources compiled and web page developed by Patricia Herron, UM Libraries This guide will assist you in locating resources for English 348A. Due to licensing agreements, some of the electronic resources available by remote search are restricted to current students, faculty, and staff at the University of Maryland, College Park. E-mail Patricia Herron, the subject area specialist, or call 301-405-9280 for more information. Contents Research Port: Off-Campus-Access to Library Resources Locating Short Stories Biographical Information Literary Criticism Historical Background Reference Books Style Manuals Interlibrary Loan Services Questions? Research Port: Off-Campus-Access to Library Resources Research Port This web-based interface allows for off-campus searching of databases licensed for use by University of Maryland students and faculty. return to top Locating Short Stories Catalog (To locate a specific short story) Choose the word/s anywhere search option and type the author's last name and keywords from the title of the short story. EXAMPLE: harper two offers. Examine your search results for books that may include the short story as part of a collection. The title of the short story may appear as part of the title of the work or it may appear in the table of contents. Catalog (To locate short story collections of a specific author) Choose the author beginning with ... search option, type in the author's name (last name, first name). EXAMPLE: marshall, paule. Examine your search results for books that mention "collected works of...", "complete works of...", "...and other stories", "collected short stories of...", "selected writings of...", etc. Catalog (To locate collections of short stories written by African Americans) Choose the word/s anywhere search option and type in the following words *afr american* short stor* OR afr* american* literary collections. Short Story Index. McKeldin Reference Stacks Z5917.S5S5 Check each volume for collections that may include your short story. Then check the Catalog to see if the library owns any of these collections of short stories. African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library) Full text of 19th-century fiction, essays, poetry, biography and autobiography by African-American women writers. See Also Reference Books section for books on African American authors. return to top Biographical Information Catalog Choose the subject beginning with...** search option: type in author's name (last name, first name), EXAMPLE: larsen, nella. Browse the list of subject headings and choose the headings with just the author's name or with the subdivision biography. OR Choose the word/s anywhere search option: type in author's name and the word biography EX: zora neale hurston biography. Literature Resource Center [0ff-campus access] Full-text biographies of authors. African American Biographical Database [0ff-campus access] Full-text biographies of African Americans who lived during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color Includes short biographies and critical analysis of works by women writers of color in North America. Biography and Genealogy Master Index [0ff-campus access] Index to biographies that appear in reference books. Biography Index [0ff-campus access] Index to biographies and interviews that appear in periodicals and books. Lexis-Nexis [0ff-campus access] Full-text newspaper and magazine articles. Useful for very contemporary authors. See Also Reference Books section for biographical informaton. return to top Literary Criticism Important Literary Crticism Resources Catalog Choose the subject beginning with... search option: type in author's name (last name, first name). EXAMPLE: hurston, zora neale. Browse the list of subject headings and choose the headings with the subdivision criticism and interpretation. Literature Resource Center [0ff-campus access] Excerpts of criticism on authors and texts. MLA International Bibliography [0ff-campus access] Information about essays, critical articles, and dissertations on authors and their works. Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - Full Text (ABELL+FT) [0ff-campus access] Information about essays, articles, book reviews and dissertations on authors and their works. Arts and Humanities Search [0ff-campus access] Includes information about critical articles and book reviews. Humanities Abstracts [0ff-campus access] Includes information about critical articles and book reviews. Short Story Criticism. McKeldin Reference Stacks PN3373.S386 Use the cumulative title index in the last volume to locate criticsm of your specific short stories. Additional Resources for Contemporary Authors Academic Search [0ff-campus access] Information on articles and book reviews from humanities, social science, science, as well as popular periodicals. Lexis-Nexis [0ff-campus access] Full-text newspaper and magazine articles, including book reviews. Book Review Digest [0ff-campus access] Includes information about book reviews. return to top Historical Background Catalog America: History and Life [0ff-campus access] Information on articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history published since 1964 Historical Abstracts [0ff-campus access] Information on articles, books, and dissertations about World history, excluding U.S. and Canadian history return to top Reference Books: Useful for locating biographical information and criticism on African American women authors. Also useful for locating short stories and their criticism. Reference books on specific authors Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography 1968-1986. McKeldin Reference StacksPS3573.A425Z56 Ann Petry: A Bio-Bibliography. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS3531.E933E78 1993 Toni Morrison An Annotated Bibliography. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS3563.O8749 Z78 1987 The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS3563.O8749 Z913 2003 Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS3515.U789D38 1997 A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS3515.U789 Z464 2002 Reference books about multiple authors African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5A32 2000 African American Writers. 2 Volumes McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5A344 2001 The Afro-American Short Story: A Comprehensive, Annotated Index with Selected Commentaries. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5Y26 1986 A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5J62 1993 Black American Fiction: A Bibliography. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5F3 Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Wriers, 1900-1945. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5R65 The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910 with Secondary Bibliography to the Present. McKeldin Reference Stacks PS153.N5Y45 Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication: Interpretations, 1900-1975, of Short Fiction Since 1800. McKeldin Reference Stacks Z5917.S5W33 1977 and Supplements Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication: New Series. Mckeldin Reference Stacks Z5917.S5W35 1993 - present. return to top Style Manuals MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. McKeldin Quick Reference Shelf LB2369.G53 1999. A Guide for Writing Research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources Guidelines for citing Internet sources return to top Interlibrary Loan Request materials the UM Libraries do not own through the Interlibrary Loan Office. return to top Questions? If you have any questions about these or other library resources, contact Patricia Herron. return to top


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