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Rich in sociological and historical significance, Alexander Street Literature delivers the writings of place, gender, and race. Students and scholars of literature, history, diversity studies, politics, transatlantic studies, postcolonial history, geography, cultural studies, and anthropology can now explore these important works that have previously not been available.

Vast and continuously growing, Alexander from across the region—from Australia, M. Gorriti (Argentina), Gertrudis Gomez Street Literature celebrates the creative Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand to de Avellaneda (Cuba), Delmira Agustini achievements of authors from around the Vanuatu, Samoa, and Hawaii—penned from (Argentina), Julia Lopes Almeida (Brazil), globe, including the broad literary output the 1930s to present day. The collection Rachel de Queiroz (Brazil), and Cristina of Africa and its diaspora, Latin America, pairs this literature with supplementary Peri Rossi (Uruguay). More than 25 percent the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and other materials including author interviews, of the collection is comprised of feminist regions—along with the North American documentaries, scholarly writings, and works by writers such as Clorinda Matto de expressions of this rich world heritage. other related multimedia. Turner (Peru), Nisia Floresta and Bertha Lutz Exceptionally detailed indexing allows users (Brazil), and Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico). to explore and analyze the content in ways Latino Literature that are simply impossible in paper form. This collection brings together more Irish Women Poets of the than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, Romantic Period Underground and Independent and drama written in English and Spanish This collection corrects a glaring omission Comics, Comix, and Graphic by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto in the literary history of the British Isles—and Novels: Volume I and Volume II Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors of Romanticism generally. Comprising The first of its kind, this working in the United States. Nearly one more than 80 volumes of poetry by Irish two-volume resource third of the collection is rare or previously women writing between 1768 and 1842, traces the evolution and unpublished work. Although the collection the collection enables researchers to delve development of a visual includes materials from the 19th century, more deeply than ever into this significant, literary genre from the the vast majority of works are from the but largely underappreciated, body of work. first underground comix period spanning the Chicano Renaissance to modern sequential to the present day. Authors such as Rudolfo Scottish Women Poets of the art. Together, the series Anaya, Cherrie Moraga, Carlos Morton, Romantic Period Alurista, Virgil Suarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, includes 175,000 pages This electronic collection of more than 60 of important, rare, and Ivan Acosta, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Rolando Hinojosa, Tato Laviera, Lucha Corpi, Luis volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, hard-to-find works, scholarly writings, and written between 1789 and 1832, fills a more. Volume II adds extensive coverage Valdez, and others are included, along with many others. gap in our knowledge of and access to a of the pre-Comics Code works that fueled large and comprehensive body of work. the backlash leading to one of the largest Latin American Women Writers Representing women from every social, censorship campaigns in US history. economic, political, and religious stratum, This collection of prose, poetry, and drama the collection also showcases a wide variety Australasian Literature Online composed by women writing in Mexico, of genres, from sentimental lyric verse to Australasian Literature Online optimizes Central America, and South America totals socially and politically committed poetry. the study of literature by uniting nearly more than 100,000 pages and spans works a century of quintessential literary works from the 17th century to the present. Black Short Fiction and Folklore: into one expansive online resource. With Literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays published here in their original language African, African American, and a strong focus on Indigenous Australians, Diaspora Maori, Pacific Islanders, and female voices, will give scholars access, for the first time, the collection will grow to deliver more to a vast, cross-searchable, Semantically This comprehensive collection of stories than 120,000 pages of poetry and fiction Indexed research tool for understanding from Africa and the African Diaspora that capture the vibrancy of the region. the diversity and development of Latin features a great deal of material that is America from the female perspective. ephemeral, rare, or difficult to find. It Designed with academic audiences Authors in this collection include Sor Juana contains more than 11,000 short stories in mind, Australasian Literature Online Inés de la Cruz (Mexico), Francisca Josefa and folktales dating from 1843 to the contains the most influential literary works de Castillo y Guevara (Colombia), Juana present. The collection also includes

2 | Alexander Street | 800.889.5937 • +1.703.212.8520 complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. Authors represented include: William Wells Brown, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Edwidge Danticat, Chester Himes, Rita Dove, John Edgar Wideman, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Childress, Walter Mosley, and many more.

Black Women Writers: African, Representing writers from India, Pakistan, Romanticism Redefined: African American, and Diaspora Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Pickering & Chatto and The Featuring more than 100,000 pages of Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar Wordsworth Circle fiction, poetry, and essays, this collection (Burma), Singapore, and Fiji—either by birth highlights the work of African and or cultural identity—the collection enables A genre-redefining online collection of African Diaspora women writers from scholars of literature, postcolonial studies, Romantic-era literature and in-copyright 3 continents and 20 countries. From and history of the region to analyze these complementary texts, Romanticism 18th century slave narratives to writings works together for the first time. Among Redefined will grow to include 120,000 from the Harlem Renaissance, the works the authors included in the collection are pages from the Pickering & Chatto catalog included here are often rare or difficult Meena Alexander, Tariq Ali, Anita Desai, and 10,000 pages from The Wordsworth to access. Alexander Street’s Semantic Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Circle, appearing in electronic format for Indexing allows users to identify and Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee, Rohinton the first time. Covering the years 1800 to compare themes geographically and over Mistry, Vikram Seth, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1830, the collection also highlights the time and trace the evolution of black Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa “second generation” of writings, many of feminism as a movement. Writers include Lahiri, and many more. which were previously inaccessible. Phyllis Wheatley, Sonia Sanchez, Ida B. Wells, Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, The Alexander Street Literature Film Scripts Online Series Maya Angelou, Barbara Ransby, Angela Package The Film Scripts Online Series contains Davis, Margaret Walker, Olive Senior, and This specially priced subscription package 1,500 film scripts—an exploration of hundreds more. brings together the hundreds of thousands culture and cinema through the decades. of pages of poetry, short stories, novels, These highly structured archives offer a Caribbean Literature non-fiction, and essays from each of bibliographic and biographical database of Containing a vast assemblage of classic, the following eight Alexander Street directors and writers, along with the full text rare, and contemporary Caribbean poetry, Literature online collections and makes of the movies themselves. From the earliest drama, and fiction—more than 100,000 them accessible through a single cross- silent films through to the present, the pages—as well as author interviews, searchable interface. This literature is in- cultural attitudes and lifestyles are reflected photographs, leading reference works, copyright, contemporary, global, diverse, in the medium. Students, instructors, and dictionaries, and journals in the discipline, and frequently unavailable from any other researchers use the Film Scripts Online this collection fills a void in literary and source. Rich in sociological and historical Series for studying popular culture, film, post-colonial research. The collection significance, the collections in this package diversity and gender issues, language includes works by E. K. Brathwaite, George deliver the literatures of place, gender, and and linguistics, writing, American history, Lamming, Kwame Dawes, Lorna Goodison, race. anthropology, sociology, psychology, and Cyril Dabydeen, Jean Rhys, Earl Lovelace, other disciplines. Contains American Film V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Guillermo • Black Short Fiction and Folklore Scripts Online and Film Scripts Online. Rosario, and Jose Martí, to name but a few. • Black Women Writers South and Southeast Asian • Caribbean Literature Literature: Classic and • Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Postcolonial Writers in English, Period Request a 1825 to Present • Latin American Women Writers free This collection contains more than 100,000 • Latino Literature pages of fiction, short fiction, poems, trial • Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic interviews, and manuscript materials Period written in English by writers from South and Southeast Asia and their diasporas. • South and Southeast Asian Literature alexanderstreet.com/literature

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