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Selected African Literature Sources

 
GUIDES

Klein, Leonard S. (ed). African Literatures in the 20th Century: a Guide. 1988. 809AF831986 MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

Lindfors, Bernth. Long Drums and Canons: Teaching and Researching African Literatures. 1995.

869.07 L642L STACKS

Zell, Hans M., Carol Bundy and Virginia Coulon. A New Reader's Guide to African Literature. 2d ed. 1983. 809 Z38r 1983a AFRICANA, REFERENCE, STACKS, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, UNDERGRADUATE
 


SURVEYS

Benson, Eugene and L.W. Conolly. Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English. 1994. 2 v. 820.3EN19 ENGLISH, REFERENCE

Gerard, Albert S., ed. European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2 v. 1986. 896.09 EU74 STACKS

Klein, Leonard S. African Literatures in the 20th Century Rev. ed. 1988. 896.09 Af83 AFRICANA

Kom, Ambroise. Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française en Afrique au Sud du Sahara. 1997. 2 v. 840.3 K835d AFRICANA

Ngandu, Nkashama Pius. Les Années Litteraires en Afrique (1912-1987). 016.84 P688a AFRICANA

Nnolim, Charles E. Approaches to the African Novel: Essays in Analysis. 1992. 809.896 N659a STACKS

Owomoyela, Oyekan. A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures. 1993. 809.8896 H629 MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS


PERSPECTIVES FROM THE COLONIZED

Achebe, Chinua. Hopes and Impediments. 1989. 823.09 AC45H MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, STACKS, UNDERGRADUATE

Chinweizu et al. Toward the Decolonization of African Literature. 1983. 820.9C441T & 820.9 C441t 1983 STACKS

Irele, Abiola. The African Experience in Literature and Ideology. 1990. 840.91 R2a MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, AFRICANA

Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Declonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986. 809.8896 N499D MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS


BIBLIOGRAPHIES

"Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth literature." In Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 820.5 JOC ENGLISH, older issues in STACKS

Berrian, Brenda F. Bibliography of African Women Writers and Journalists (Ancient Egypt-1984).

016.8 B4586 WOMEN'S STUDIES

Görög, Veronika. Littérature Oral d'Afrique Noire: Bibliographie Analytique. 1981. 016.3982096 G682L STACKS

Jahn, Janheinz. Bibliography of Creative African Writing. 1973. 016.896 J25b STACKS, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, UNDERGRADUATE

Limb, Peter and Jean-Marie Volet. Bibliography of African Literatures. 1996. 016.80889866 L629B AFRICANA

Lindfors, Bernth. Black African Literature in English: A Guide to Information Sources. 1979 AFRICANA, ENGLISH, UNDERGRADUATE; 1977-1981 supplement AFRICANA, UNDERGRADUATE, ENGLISH; 1982-1986 AFRICANA, ENGLISH; 1987-1991 AFRICANA 016.82 L64BL

La Littérature Africaine Francophone: 200 Suggestions de Lecture. 1991. 840.9 L7189 AFRICANA

Lordereau, Paulette. Littératures Africaines à Bibliothèque Nationale...1920-1972. 016.8088 L718 AFRICANA

Makar, Ragai N. Modern Arabic Literature: A Bibliography. 1998. 016.8927 M289m AFRICANA, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

Moser, Gerald and Manuel Ferreira. A New Bibliography of Lusophone Literatures of Africa. 1993. 016.868 M853n AFRICANA


INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of English Studies. 1958-1991. 810.5 AB ENGLISH

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. 1920-. A820 M72B REFERENCE, ENGLISH, UNDERGRADUATE

Arts and Humanities Citation Index. ONLINE

British Humanities Index. 1962-. 050 BR REFERENCE

MLA International Bibliography. ONLINE

Wilson Humanities Abstracts. ONLINE


LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

Black Writers: a Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. 2nd ed. 1994. Q.809.8896 B561 1994 AFRICANA

Contemporary Authors. 1962-. Annual. 928 C7671 REFERENCE, UNDERGRADUATE

Contemporary Dramatists. 6th ed., 1999. 928.22 V78C 1999 REFERENCE, ENGLISH

Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., 1996. 928.23 C767 1996 REFERENCE, ENGLISH

Contemporary Poets. 6th ed. 1996. Q928.21 C767 1996 ENGLISH

Cox, C. Brian, ed. African Writers. 1997. 2 v. Q.016.896 Af83 AFRICANA, MODERN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

Herdeck, Donald E. African Authors: a Companion to Black African Writing 1300-1973. 1973. 928.96 H41A AFRICANA, REFERENCE, UNDERGRADUATE

Modern Black Writers. 1978. 809.8 M723 ENGLISH, UNDERGRADUATE, REFERENCE. Supplement. 1995. 809.8896073 M72 AFRICANA

Parekh, Pushpa Naidu and Siga Fatima Jagne. Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. 1998. 896.016 P845 AFRICANA

Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers. 1992, 1993, 1996. Q.928.1 D561 v.117, v.125, v.157. AFRICANA, ENGLISH, UNDERGRADUATE

ONLINE as part of Dictionary of Literary Biography.
 


BOOK REVIEWS AND CRITICISM

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1802-1974. 10 v. REFERENCE Index Table

Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1973-.. Q.928 C768 ENGLISH, REFERENCE, UNDERGRADUATE.

Use last volume for cumulative index

Draper, James P. Black Literature Criticism. 1992. 3 vols. Q.809.8896 B5616 AFRICANA, UNDERGRADUATE

An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities. 1960-1990. annual. 028.05 in REFERENCE, ENGLISH, UNDERGRADUATE

Index to the African Studies Review/Bulletin and the ASA Review of Books, 1958-1990. 1991.

905 AFRS Index 1958-1990 AFRICANA

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Q.928 T91 ENGLISH

Use last volume for cumulative index.

Wilson Humanities Index. ONLINE

 

Al Kagan/July 2000
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 


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