African American Literature

Black Women Writers celebrates the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora, with fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents.

9,000 poems by 62 important African American poets of the last century.

This large online collection of literary criticism provides a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Multiple search and browse options are provided. Literature Criticism Online includes the following series:
• Children’s Literature Review
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Drama Criticism
• Literature Criticism 1400-1800
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
• Shakespeare Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

Nineteenth-Century Fiction collects 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s