Accounts
English 227 Chatterji
Course Specific Resources
Online Book Lists of 20th Century Authors
Africa's 100 best books of the 20th Century
World Literature Tour (from The Guardian newspaper)
Sample Books/Novels in our library
| Country | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | Achebe | Things Fall Apart |
| Africa | Paton, Alan | Cry The Beloved Country |
| Africa | Eggers, Dave | What is the What: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (Need to request) |
| Africa | Dinesen, Isak | Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass (2nd floor south of library) |
| Africa | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus (1st floor, EMC) |
| Africa | Mark Mathabane |
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (2nd floor south of library) |
| Africa | Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
| Africa | Isak Dinesen | Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass |
| Middle East | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner (3rd floor north) |
| Middle East | Azar Nafisi | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
| Middle East | Åsne Seierstad | The Bookseller of Kabul |
| Middle East | Khaled Hosseini | A Thousand Splendid Suns (in leisure reading room, 2nd floor) |
| Middle East | Latifa | My forbidden face : growing up under the Taliban : a young woman's story (2nd floor north) |
| MIddle East | Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis (1st floor, Polk 101) |
| Middle East | Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis 2 : the story of a return (1st floor, EMC) |
| Middle East | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time |
| Asia | Ji-li Jiang | Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
| Asia | Dai Sijie | Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress |
| Asia | Adeline Yen Mah | Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter (need to request) |
| Asia | Adeline Yen Mah | Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter |
| Asia | Lisa See | Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel |
| Asia | Lensey Namioka | Ties that bind, ties that break |
| Asia | John Hersey | Hiroshima |
| India | Arundhati Roy | The god of small things (2nd floor leisure room) |
| India | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's children |
| India | Jhumpa Lahiri | The namesake |
| India | Kamala Markandaya | Nectar in a sieve, a novel |
| South America | Gabriel García Márquez | One hundred years of solitude |
| South America | Gabriel García Márquez | Chronicle of a death foretold (need to request) |
| South America | Jamaica Kincaid | Annie John (1st floor EMC) |
| The Caribbean | Julia Alvarez | In the time of the butterflies |
| The Caribbean | Cristina Garcia | Dreaming in Cuban : a novel |
| South America | Isabel Allende | The house of the spirits (third floor north) |
| South America | Isabel Allende | City of the beasts (would need to request) |
| South America | Gabriel García Márquez | Love in the time of cholera |
Sample short stories in library catalog
Latin American Fiction--Short stories
Japanese--Fiction--Short stories
Modern Chinese Short stories (these will be in the PL 3000's on the 2nd floor)
Contemporary Indian Short stories
Background: Author Biographies
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.
Research Databases
Tips: Try your title and author last name for your keywords for your search.
Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. Great starting point for literary criticism.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Gale Literature Criticism Online
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals.
Academic Search Complete contains more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals, including Twentieth Century Literature.
Project Muse provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of the Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Full-text poems, essays, plays, speeches, and short stories. Available to Wisconsin residents via BadgerLink
Films on Authors--Search for your author in one of these film databases:
Films On Demand is a digital video delivery service that allows users to view thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
Kanopy provides more than 26,000 films in its collection on every topic imaginable - including leading producers such as The Great Courses, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, BBC, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation.
Example--Achebe:
Web Sites
Purdue OWL: MLA Writing Lab (MLA citation help)
DMOZ--online directory-- heading: world literature, organized by nation.
South Asian Women Writers (SAWNET)
Citations
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