Research Guide: Selected African Literature & Theater Resources
May 03, 2012
Guides and Surveys
Abodunrin, Femi. Black African Literature in English 1991-2001: Critical Appreciation and Reception. Dar
es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Pub., 2007. 820.9 Ab75b Main Stacks
Banham, Martin, ed. A History of Theatre in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 792.096
H629 Main Stacks
Daymond, M.J., ed. The Women Writing Africa Project. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of
New York, 2003-2009. 4 vols.
 Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region, 2003. 820.8 W8427 Main Stacks
 Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel, 2005. 896.08 W842 Main Stacks
 Women Writing Africa: the Eastern Region, 2007. 820.8 W8428 Main Stacks
 Women Writing Africa: the Northern Region, 2009. 808.8 W8427 Main Stacks
Gikandi, Simon. Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Routledge, 2003. 809.89603 En19 IAS
Africana Reference, Main Stacks; PL8010 .E63 2003 Undergraduate
Irele, F. Abiola, and Simon Gikandi, eds. The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature.
2 vols. 809.8896 C11 Main Stacks, Oak Street
Killam, Douglas, and Ruth Rowe, eds. The Companion to African Literatures. Oxford: J. Currey, 2000.
820.9 C7381 IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks
Kom, Ambroise. Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française en Afrique au Sud du Sahara.
Paris: l’Harmattan, 2001. 2 vols. 840.3 D5617 Main Reference
Lindfors, Bernth. Long Drums and Canons: Teaching and Researching African Literatures. Trenton, NJ:
Africa World Press, 1995. 896.07 L642I Main Stacks
Meisami, Julie Scott, and Paul Starkey. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature. London:
Routledge, 2010. 892.703 R765 Main Stacks
Moss, Joyce. World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events
that Influenced Them. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Q. 809 M8553W IAS Africana Reference, Main Reference;
PN50 .M625 1999 Undergraduate
Sakkut, Hamdi. The Arabic Novel: Bibliography and Critical Introduction, 1865-1995. Cairo: American
University in Cairo Press, 2000. 6 vols. PJ7577 .S25 2000 Main Stacks Asian; 016.8927 Ar117 Oak Street
Perspectives from the Colonized
Achebe, Chinua. The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A Knopf,
2009. 823 Ac45ed Residence Halls Allen Hall Circulating Collection; PR9387.9.A3 Z46 2009 Undergraduate
Chinweizu. Toward the Decolonization of African Literature. Washington, DC.: Howard University Press,
1983. 820.9 C441T1983 Main Stacks
Irele, Abiola. The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone African and Carribean Literature and
Thought. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011. 840.9 Ir28n Main Stacks
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Something Torn and New: an African Renaissance. New York: BasicCivitas Books,
2009. DT14 .N48 2009 Literatures and Languages; 325.6 N499s Main Stacks
Bibliographies
Altoma, Salih J. Modern Arabic Literature in Translation: a Companion. London: Saqi, 2005. 892.709
Al798m Main Stacks
Berrian, Brenda F. Bibliography of African Women Writers and Journalists: Ancient Egypt - 1984. 1st ed.
Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1985. 016.8 B458b IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks
Görög, Veronika. Littérature Oral d’Afrique Noire: Bibliographie Analytique. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose,
1981. 016.3982096 G682L Main Stacks
Gray, John. Black Theatre and Performance: a Pan-African Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press,
1990. 016.72 G793B Main Stacks
Kom, Ambroise. Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires de Langue Française en Afrique au Sud du Sahara.
Paris: l’Harmattan, 2001. 2 vols. 840.3 D5617 Main Reference
Limb, Peter and Jean-Marie Volet. Bibliography of African Literatures. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,
1996. 016.80889866 L629B IAS Africana Reference, Main Reference
Lindfors, Bernth. Black African Literature in English: a Guide to Information Sources. 1982-1986
supplement IAS Africana Reference, Main Reference; 1987-1991 supplement IAS Africana Reference, Main
Reference; 1992-1996 supplement IAS Africana Reference, Main Reference, Oak Street; 1997-1999
supplement 016.82 L64bI IAS Africana Reference, Main Reference
Lordereau, Paulette. Littératures Africaines à la Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1991.
016.8088996 B471L IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks, Modern Languages
Makar, Ragai N. Modern Arabic Literature: a Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998. 016.8927
M289m IAS Africana Reference, Oak Street
Moser, Gerald and Manuel Ferreira. A New Bibliography of Lusophone Literatures of Africa. London:
H. Zell Publishers, 1993. 016.868 M853N IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks
Sakkut, Hamdi. The Arabic Novel: Bibliography and Critical Introduction. Cairo: The American University
in Cairo Press, 2000. PJ7511 .S25 2000 Main Stacks Asian; 016.8927 Ar117 Oak Street
Indexes
British Humanities Index. London: The Library Association, 1963-2007. 050 BR Main Stacks Reference
Literary Biography
Gikandi, Simon, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Routledge, 2003. 809.89603 En19 IAS
Africana Reference, Main Stacks; PL8010 .E63 2003 Undergraduate
Herdeck, Donald E. African Authors: a Companion to Black African Writing 1300-1973. Washington, DC:
Black Orpheus Press, 1973-. 928.96 H41A IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks; PL8010 .A35 1973
Undergraduate
Parekh, Pushpa Naidu and Siga Fatima Jagne. Postcolonial African Writers: Bio-Bibliographical Critical
Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 896.016 P845 IAS Africana Reference, Main Stacks
Book Reviews and Criticism
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Humanities Journals, 1802-1974. Woodbridge, CT:
Research Publications, 1982-. 10 vols. 016.0013 C733 Main Stacks Reference
Index to the African Studies Review/Bulletin and the ASA Review of Books, 1958-1990. Atlanta, GA:
African Studies Association, 1991. 905 AFRSINDEX1958-1990 IAS Africana Reference