Time Periods

 

Literature of Slavery & Freedom (1746-1865)

 Literature of Reconstruction & The New Negro (1865-1919)

 The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1940)

 Realism, Naturalism & Modernism (1940-1960)

 The Black Arts Movement (1960-1975)

 Literature after 1975 (1975 - Present)

Reference books: Time period specific

 

• Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 by Trudier Harris-Lopez (Editor); Thadious M. Davis (Editor)

  Call Number: PS153.N5 A396 1987

  ISBN: 081031729X

  Publication Date: 1986-08-01
• African American Authors, 1745-1945 by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Editor)

  Call Number: PS153.N5 A32 2000

  ISBN: 0313309108

  Publication Date: 2000-01-30
• Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance by Trudier Harris-Lopez (Editor); Thadious M. Davis (Editor)

  Call Number: PS153.N5 A393 1986

  ISBN: 0810317281

  Publication Date: 1986-08-15

Reference Books

 

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers

Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

African-American Writers

Black Literature Criticism

A work in three volumes

The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction

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