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African American Writers, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9896073 Af83A [2 vols]
Cambridge Guide to American Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Main Level, Reference: R 792.0973 C144C
 Critical Survey of Drama, Salem Press, 2003.
Main Level, Reference: R 822.009 C869C [8 vols]
Vols 7 [p. 3375-African American Drama] & 8 have essays on drama in America, Britian, Europe, World, different genres, and techniques. Index to playwrights and works in all vols is found in Vol 8. Check here for individual playwright criticism.
Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 1998.
Main Level, Reference: R 016.81254 W671C
Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays : A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index, Greenwood Press, 1988.
Main Level, Reference: R 812.5409 P442C
Contemporary Dramatists, St. James Press, 1973, 1988, 1999.
Main Level, Reference: R 822.91409 V786C
Contemporary Women Dramatists, St. James Press, 1994.
Main Level, Reference: R 822.91409 C767C
Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts, Greenwood Press, 1990.
Main Level, Reference: R 812.009 P442E
Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 1987.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9975 F466F2
Includes information on Green and Wright. A-Z listing.
Masterpieces of African-American Literature, Harper Collins, 1992.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9896073 M393M
Includes information on plot & characters, analysis, and critical context for literary works by African Americans.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes, McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Main Level, Reference: R 809.2 M178M [5 vols]
Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists, Harold Bloom, ed., Chelsea House, 1995.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9896073 M72M
Modern Black Writers, St. James Press, 2000.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.9896073 M72M2 [2 vols]
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Main Level, Reference: R 810.8 Ox2O
Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 1997.
Main Level, Reference: R 812.5409 P442W
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Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Also available in print, Main Level, Reference:
R 792.0321 C144C
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Coverage here of novelists, poets, playwrights, and their works; embraces both the established classics of English literature and a wealth of contemporary figures from all over the English-speaking world.
Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum PUblishing, Ltd., 2005.
Comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. |
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Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
Focusing on the making of African American society from the arrival of the black explorer Esteban, who came with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895, this encyclopedia traces the transition from Africa to America and the role Africans played in shaping the development of American society.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-present
Focuses on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period. It traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African American culture on the American cultural landscape.
Black Women in America, Second Edition [3 vols]
Celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and represents the new research the first edition helped to generate.
African American National Biography
African American history through the lives of its people, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies. New entries from this landmark work are continually added as part of the regular update program, with over 1,200 already online.
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Concise Oxford Companion to African American Theatre, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works.
Includes general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics.
Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre [Oxford Reference Online], Oxford University Press, 2002.
Also available in print [not concise edition], Main Level, Reference: R 792.03 Ox2O [1983]
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre [Oxford Reference Online]. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Also available in print, Main Level, Reference: R 792.0973 B644O |
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Encyclopedia of African American Society, Sage Publishing, 2005. Provides the reader with a reliable and initial reference as a point of entry—a starting point for learning basic facts and ideas about African American society and for obtaining guidance about where to go for more information.
Encyclopedia of Black Studies, Sage Publishing, 2004.
Scholars, researchers, and students can refer to the encyclopedia for trustworthy accounts, common definitions in the field of Black Studies, and disciplinary protocols. |
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Sharpe Online Reference |
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New collection!
Offering a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. history and culture, Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues that have shaped the nation and the world from earliest times to the present day.
Gilded Age & Progressive Era
Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age
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Literature Resource Center [Thomson Gale] 
Search here for your playwright or use advanced search criteria to compile a list of authors by type. Contains biographical information from print sources at PC including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Writers, British Writers and thirteen Scribner print sources.
Gale Biography in Context 
A comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 435,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory, and many more, with more than 538,000 full-text articles from nearly 300 magazines.
Oxford African American Studies Center
See the full description above. Includes 6,000 biographies of African Americans. See
Black Women in America, Second Edition and African American National Biography.
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THOMCAT
Use the online catalog to locate books in Thomason Library. You can search by author, title, keyword, or subject.
- Search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, with last name, then first name:
- SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings related to Postcolonial literature:
Subject searching is an effective and precise method of searching the catalog, however, KEYWORD searching has benefits, also.
- Try a KEYWORD search if you are unsure of the exact title or the correct subject heading to use. Search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find. Place phrases in "quotation marks."
- Connect words with AND, OR, NOT to focus your search.
- Try truncation at the end of a word stem to retrieve singular, plural, and other variations of the word. Use an asterisk (*) to truncate from 1 to 5 characters. Use a double asterisk (**) to include word endings with an unlimited number of characters.
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Click here for searching and ordering tips.
EBSCO eBook Collection [EBSCO] formerly NetLibrary
A large collection of electronic books covering a vast array of topics and themes.
WorldCat
A catalog of books and materials at libraries worldwide. Try searching here to find ALL books available on a topic. Materials available at Thomason Library are highlighted and others can be borrowed through ILL or searched in the PASCAL Catalog.
Interlibrary Loan
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The following journal databases are available to PC students, faculty, and staff from on- and off-campus locations. When passworded from off campus locations,
supply your PC e-mail login and password.
If searching for a specific dramatic work, search by author’s last name and title or part of the key words from the title of the work (e.g.-- Shange and colored girls and suicide).
JSTOR
Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, & III contain an archive of over 350 full-text journals which are searchable through JSTOR or accessible through Journal Finder, which provides access to full-text articles in Thomason Library's electronic databases. The collections include journals in art, architecture, economics, film, folklore, history, performing arts, political science, religion, sociology, humanities, mathematics, and statistics. JSTOR is a journal archive with complete runs of journals up to three years ago. Current issues are not available in JSTOR, but may be available in other databases.
Academic Search Premier [EBSCO]
EBSCOhost's journal and magazine articles from all academic disciplines
Academic OneFile [Thomson Gale]
Multidisciplinary full-text articles from scholarly sources.
MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOhost]
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 45,000 records are added annually.
Project MUSE: Basic Undergraduate Collection
Current and recent volumes of 111 core journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Journal Finder
- Search here to determine if PC has full text for the journal, magazine or newspaper article you need using directions below.
- In addition, when searching in Library databases, Journal Finder will lead you to full text when available through Check Journal Finder for full text elsewhere links.
Search or Browse
Journal Finder
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Citation Example:
Baraka, Amiri. 2010.Still a revolutionary... New Theatre Quarterly 26, no. 4 [November]:
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- Default search is Journals by Title in Full Text. Type the title of the journal or magazine in the empty box (example:New Theatre Quarterly).
- You may need to select your title from the results. Click on the title you seek.
- Results for your title include up to three categories: Full Text Resources in your library (in print), Full Text Resources Online, and Indexing Only (not full text).
- Note the "dates available" in a Full Text category. Click on a database that covers the date you need.
*LexisNexis: articles must be searched from scratch in this database.
- Choose, year and issue OR volume and issue, then look through the contents of that issue for the article you need. Articles are usually listed in page number order and are available in HTML or PDF format.
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Paul Eliot Green Papers [Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]
Transcripts of selected letters written by Paul Green between 1917-19.
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