African American Literature: Literature Databases & Resources

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

Homepage of the Modern Language Association. Includes a language map of the United States.

Provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.

20th Century African-American Poetry contains 12,000 poems by more than 100 African-American poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and emerging poets. Biographical profiles accompany each poets work.

Contains 52,000 poems from collected works and individual volumes of poetry covering the works of most major twentieth-century American poets.

African-American Poetry 1760-1900 includes the full text of almost 3000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Contains 440 works of 80 novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850.

Find research on authors and titles and then use the print volumes to find and read the information.

Includes Poetry for Students, Short Stories for Students, Novels for Students, Black Literature Criticism, Drama for Students and much more

A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres—long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction—throughout history and around the world, helping to define and critique the literary canon.