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Fall
2008 - K. Mule
reference
contact: Bruce Sajdak, bsajdak@email.smith.edu, x2967
Background
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Books
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Cite Sources
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GETTING
STARTED: FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION
African
History
| Reference
Source |
Reference
Call Number |
| New Encyclopedia
of Africa |
click here |
| Encyclopedia
of African History and Culture |
ref
DT 3 .P27 2005 |
| Encyclopedia
of African History |
ref
DT 20 .E53 2005 |
| CountryWatch
|
click
here |
| Europa
World Plus |
click
here |
African
Literature
| Reference
Source |
Reference
Call Number |
Dictionary
of Literary Biography
(see especially vols. 117, 125, & 157)
|
ref
PN 451 .D53 |
|
African
Writers |
ref
PL 8010 .A453 1997 |
Encyclopedia
of African Literature
|
ref
PL 8010 .E63 2003 |
| Companion
to African Literatures |
ref
PR 9340 .C65 2000 |
| Columbia
Guide to East African Literature after 1945 |
ref
PR 9340 .G55 2007 |
| Dictionary
of African Mythology |
ref
BL 2400 .S24 2000
or click
here |
| African
Folklore: An Encyclopedia |
ref
GR 350 .A33 2004 |
| World
Literature and Its Times: African Literature and Its Times (Vol.2) |
ref
PL 8010 .M65 2000 |
FINDING
BOOKS: USING THE FIVE COLLEGE LIBRARY SYSTEM
Search
in the Five College Library
Catalog. Search first by useing the SUBJECT BEGINS WITH
search, then later by KEYWORD, under terms such as:
| MOST
GENERAL: |
African
literature |
| BY
LANGUAGE: |
African
literature English
African literature French
English language Africa (or other country name) |
| BY
GENRE: |
African fiction
Autobiography black authors |
| BY
COUNTRY: |
Nigerian
literature
African American literature |
| BY
THEME: |
Children
in literature
Family in literature
Imperialism in literature
Postcolonialism in literature |
|
BY
NAME: |
Ngugi
wa Thiongo
Morrison Toni |
| FOR
BACKGROUND: |
Search
for broad topics such as: family Africa; memory in children; teenagers
Africa |
FINDING
ARTICLES
Literature
Humanities
Abstracts 1983+
MLA
International Bibliography 1963+
J-STOR
(back issues excluding most recent 2-3 years)
African
Society & Culture
AfricaBib.org
Academic
Search Premier 1965+
WEBSITE ON AFRICAN LITERATURE
African
Postcolonial Literature in English
CITE
YOUR SOURCES
For
guidance on citing sources correctly visit the Libraries' Citation Guides & Style
Manuals page. See especially links to MLA (Modern Language Association
of America) style.
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THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
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