EN385: 20th-Century African American
Literature
The Harlem Renaissance
Link to Course Description and Syllabus
Finding Biographical Information
Print Biographical Resources
List of print biographical resources for African Americans available in the Tutt Reference Collection.
American National Biography Online
Online library reference tool that includes extensive bibliographies and links to other internet resources on specific African Americans.
Contemporary Authors
Online library reference tool that includes biographies of most of the important writers of the Harlem Renaissance along with extensive bibliographies.
Finding Critical Information in Books and Journals in Tutt Library
TIGER and Prospector
Use this link to find books with critical information about your author (use your author's name and the keyword "criticism").
Literary Index
No fulltext articles here, but use this link to find references to books and articles with critical information about your author (this indexes the entire Gale Literary Criticism series).
MLA International Bibliography
THE premier guide to literary criticism on scholarly journals and books for nearly 40 years (but very limited fulltext).
PCI Fulltext
Only about 10% of the links in this resource are to fulltext articles, but this is the only electronic literary index that shows extensively literary criticism published in scholarly journals BEFORE 1960.
EBSCO Academic Premier or Periodical Abstracts
These general periodical indexes have some literary criticism and quite a bit of fulltext, but only for articles
published since the mid-1980's.
Colorado College Tutt Library: English/Literature Page
Use this page to locate other fulltext articles and references to print articles which may or may not be in Tutt
Library. General indexes like EBSCO and Periodical Abstracts have some art-related articles and some fulltext.
Specialized subject indexes like ArtAbstracts or MLA Bibliography with have many references to scholarly articles.
Other Possibly Useful Tools
Style Sheets for Citing Electronic Resources
Links developed by the Reference Staff at the University of Colorado
Evaluation Web Sites
Links to several sites with criteria for evaluating internet resources--developed by librarians at the University of
Colorado.
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