MINORITY, ETHNIC AND REGIONAL LITERATURE

 

African American Review, 1992--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 1 .N351

Formerly Black American Literature Forum (1967-1991). Publishes fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, and book reviews. Does not publish bibliographies on a regular basis. Principal journal on African-American literature.

 

Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, 1976--. 4/yr.

Call number: NX 506 .C34

Publishes fiction, poetry and scholarly articles and book reviews. Occasionally publishes subject bibliographies, but not on a regular basis.

 

 

MELUS: the Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1974--. 4/yr.

Call number: PN 843 .M18

Publishes articles and reviews on ethnic literature and ethnicity in music, television, and film. No bibliographies.

 

 

*Mississippi Quarterly: the Journal of Southern Culture, 1966--. 4/yr.

Call number: AS 30 .M58 A2

Issues range through Southern fiction and Southern history with some cultural criticism. Articles deal with both current and past writers and topics. Each volume publishes essays, review essays, and book reviews and has a supplement that provides a briefly annotated serial bibliography of all Southern-related scholarship from the preceding year. Important source for study of 20th century writers, especially Faulkner and Welty.

 

 

Obsidian II: Black Literature Review, 1986--. 3/yr.

Call number: PR 11 .B5031

Publishes poetry, fiction, scholarly essays and reviews. No bibliographies.

 

 

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, see entry under Gender Studies

 

 

*Western American Literature, 1966--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 271 .W46

Publishes annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature and authors, including Native American authors. In the same issue, lists current research (M.A. and Ph.D. theses) on Western American literature by department to which theses were submitted. Journal's emphasis is on Western literature and images such as Zitkala-Sa's autobiography or Deadwood Dick dime novels. All articles are footnoted with extensive works cited pages. There are essay reviews and book reviews.

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