Research Guides: *Caribbean Studies: Books

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African American writers in free electronic books because their copyright has expired.

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Of Interest

Bibliographic Guide to Black Caribbean Literature
Compiled by Thomas Weissinger and Nelly Sfeir v. de González at the of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States by Nicolás Kanellos
Call Number: 016.8687 K16b
ISBN: 0313244650
Publication Date: 1989
Focusing mainly on Puerto Rican and Cuban writers, each entry summarizes the importance of the subject and indicates the literary genres and themes cultivated. There is a brief biography of each author, an analysis of major works and themes, and a survey of the criticism of the author's works.

Latin American Issues
Monograph Series on Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Affairs

Noteworthy NUL collection

African American Documents, 18th–19th Century
Description of items in NUL's Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. West Indies materials include a holograph manuscript in French of copies of the documents made by M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Mery (1750-1819) on Haiti, known as Saint-Domingue. “Archives des Colonies” includes correspondence, proclamations, memoirs, notes for a “memoire sur les Negres”, and an annotated index to related materials in the Biblioteque Nationale.

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