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LITERATURE
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Alexander Street
Literature
Alexander Street Literature brings together the
hundreds of thousands of pages of poetry, short stories,
novels, non-fiction, plays, and essays of Alexander Street’s
14 individual literature collections and makes them
accessible and cross-searchable in a single, specially
priced package. Rich in sociological and historical
significance, this collection of more than 250,000 pages of
poetry, short fiction, and novels and 5,000 full-text plays
and film scripts celebrates the literatures of place,
gender, and race. With new content being added on a regular
basis, the current package will grow to more than 600,000
pages of poetry and prose plus 6,200 dramatic works.
Students and scholars of literature, history, politics,
transatlantic studies, postcolonial studies, geography,
cultural studies, and anthropology can now explore these
important works in new ways with the Alexander Street
Literature unified search interface.
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The Romantic Era Redefined
- PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
Alexander Street Press has partnered with London-based
Pickering & Chatto Publishers, the preeminent publisher of critical
editions in the humanities and social sciences, to create
The Romantic Era Redefined, a collection of more than
200,000 pages of Romantic-era writings by both canonical and
previously unrecognized writers from Britain, the British
Empire, and North America. Included will be poetry,
prose, drama, letters, diaries, and manuscripts—along with
political, philosophical, and sociological works.
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Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
This
collection
comprises more than
eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768
and 1842, a significant, but largely underappreciated body
of work. Most of the texts are rare, existing in print in
fewer than five libraries in the world. Along with the
poetic texts are biographical and critical essays
contributed by the world’s foremost poetry scholars and
other supporting resources.
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Caribbean Literature
More than a million and a half Africans were brought to the
Caribbean between the 15th and 19th
centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and
the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to
traditional African expressions. At
completion Caribbean Literature will contain 100,000 pages of text with associated
images. Writers share tales of survival, exile, resistance,
endurance, and emigration in their native dialects making it a
vital resource for those seeking to hear and understand the
often ignored voices of the Black Diaspora.
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Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers brings together more
than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black
women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format
for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time,
black women have needed to create their own identities and
movements. This collection documents that effort from its
earliest beginnings. With this landmark collection, Alexander
Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing
scholars the voices of Africana women along with a tool for
understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and
development of black people in the Diaspora.
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Black Short Fiction
and Folklore
Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 8,000 works by
writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, from the
earliest times to the present. Drawn from early literary
magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the
authors, much of the collection is fugitive, ephemeral, or
previously unpublished. It presents a variety of traditions
ranging from early African oral traditions to today’s
hip-hop and covers fables, parables, ballads, folktales,
short stories, trickster tales, story cycles, and novellas.
For scholars of history, sociology, anthropology, and
literature.
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Latin American Women Writers
Latin America is immense not only in its size—twice
the area of Europe, and stretching from the Rio Grande in
Texas to Cape Horn in Patagonia—but in its range of
cultural and literary expression. What we call “Latin
American culture” is a composite of the rich and diverse
output of 20 sovereign countries. Each had its unique struggle
for independence and particular ways in which it evolved after
the end of colonization. Literature is the best blueprint
for following the social and cultural developments within
these Ibero-American nations. In Latin American Women
Writers, Alexander Street Press presents an electronic
collection of literature by Latin American women from the
colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present.
The 100,000 pages of works in their original languages
comprise literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays.
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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction
Discover more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories,
20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The majority
of the works are in English, with selected works of particular
importance in Spanish. The collection begins with the works
of Chicano writers in the Southwest in the early 19th century
and follows through to include contemporary works. Scholars
in social history, literature, and Latino studies will find
value in Latino Literature.
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South and Southeast Asian Literature in
English
South and Southeast Asian writers working in English,
both in Asia and throughout their diasporas, have developed a
rich and exciting literary output. The literature included here
displays the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness
of writers negotiating multiple cultural identities and the
realities of living in a transnational world. Providing deep
insights into the modern South Asian experience and its
traditional connections, South and Southeast Asian Literature
brings together 100,000 pages of fiction, short fiction, poems,
interviews, and manuscript materials from these writers.
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North American Women's Drama
This major new initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women from
the United States and Canada, including the complete works
of leading playwrights along with those of lesser-known but
important writers. Many of the plays are rare, hard to find,
or out of print. Relevant for the study of literature, women's
studies, and the history of feminism.
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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Edited by Nancy Kushigian and Stephen Behrendt, Scottish
Women Poets of the Romantic Period contains over 60 volumes
of rare lyric poetry, together with reviews, essays and associated
bibliographical and biographical material written between
1789 and 1832. Conventional anthologies and histories of
Scottish literature have been composed largely of the works of
male authors. Seldom have any but the most specialized
twentieth-century literary histories of the period paid
serious attention to the dozens of Scottish women poets who
were active at the time and whose work and influence were in
many instances familiar and admired by their male
contemporaries.
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Asian American Drama
With 250 plays, this is a landmark collection in a rapidly
developing genre. It documents the Asian American experience as
dramatized in works by writers from the 18th century to the
present, together with biographies, a performance database,
production details, and associated visual resources, including
photos, playbills, and manuscript images.
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North American Theatre
Online
North American Theatre Online will be the largest,
most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It
will provide detailed bibliographic information on more than
10,000 plays – including references to works that have never
been published. It will contain thousands of facts about
theaters, authors, theatrical companies, and individuals, as
well as some 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related
theatrical ephemera.
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Twentieth Century North American Drama
From Maxwell Anderson to Marsha Norman, the complete works
of major North American playwrights. Alongside the works of the
most successful writers of the century are the lesser-known but
important works of African Americans, Asian Americans, gay and
lesbian writers, and others. Hundreds of unpublished plays,
production information, playbills, and theatre details round out
the collection.
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North American Indian Drama
North
American Indian Drama brings together the full text of more than 200 plays
representing the stories and creative energies of American
Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th
century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to
find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is
often overlooked or inaccessible.
Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of
tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional
dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance
elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and
narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
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Black Drama
The project brings together 1,200 plays, almost a quarter
of which are previously unpublished. Nowhere else will researchers
see these works! They have been carefully selected by well-known
experts such as James V. Hatch, a board of scholars, and the
writers themselves. The collection includes the complete works
of more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the
Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. Starting
with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this indispensable
collection presents the writings together with biographies,
playbills, images, production notes, performance information,
and much more.
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Last Updated:
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