Lourdes Vazquez
Latin America, Spanish & Portuguese, and Africa Librarian
lvazquez@rci.rutgers.edu
November 6, 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Latin American Studies:
Finding Aid: French Caribbean Literature

How to Research French Caribbean Literature

When looking for literature by or about a specific Caribbean author, check the IRIS catalog under the author's name to find the Library's holdings. You may also look under such subject headings as Creole, Caribbean Literature, or by country. You may use the same headings in the Indexes. You may also want to take a look at the following resources:

Resources: General
Resources: Specific
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Monographs
Indexes and Databases

Resources: General

Something About the Author: Autobiography series.

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

Resources: Specific

The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Caribbean Women Novelists : An Annotated Critical Bibliography / compiled by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Olga Torres-Seda with contributions from the Dutch by Hilda van Neck-Yoder.
Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1993

Caribbean Writers : a Bio-bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia / editor, Donald E. Herdeck, associate editors, Maurice A. Lubin ... [et al.], Margaret Laniak- Herdeck ; [drawings by Tom Gladden, drawings of Dominican writers by Nick Clapp].
Washington : Three Continents Press, c1979.

Fifty Caribbean Writers : a Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook / edited by Daryl Cumber Dance.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.

Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990.
Greenwood, 1991.

Larrier, Renée Brenda. Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2000.

Relouzat, Raymond, Tradition orale et imaginaire créole / Raymond Relouzat.
Martinique : Ibis Rouge Editions, 1998.

Sacred Possessions : Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean / edited by Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

Selected Black American, African, and Caribbean authors : a bio-bibliography compiled by James A. Page and Jae Min Roh.
Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1985.

Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African writers. Third series / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander.
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1996.

Waters, Harold A., Black Theater in French : a Guide / Harold A. Waters.
Quebec : Editions Naaman, c1978.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre de. Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française.
Paris : Bordas, 1994.

Demougin, Jacques. Dictionnaire de la Littérature Française et Francophone.
Paris: Larousse, 1987.

Dictionnaire des intellectuels français : les personnes, le lieux, les moments. Sous la direction de Jacques Julliard et Michel Winock.
Paris : Seuil, 1996.

Dictionnaire des oeuvres du XXe siècle : littérature française et francophone. Sous la direction de Henri Mitterand.
Paris : Dictionnaire Le Robert, 1995.

France, Peter, ed. The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Selected Black American, African, and Caribbean authors : a bio-bibliography compiled by James A. Page and Jae Min Roh.
Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1985.

Something about the author. Autobiography series.
Publication info: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1986- .

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.
Detroit, Michigan: Gale, 1978-.

Monographs

Arnold, A James, ed. A History of Literature in the Caribbean.
Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1994-c.2001.

The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Changing currents : transnational Caribbean literary and cultural criticism / edited by Emily Allen Williams, Melvin
B. Rahming. Publication info: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2006.

Caribbean literature and the environment : between nature and culture / edited by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Renée K. Gosson, and George B. Handley.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Fifty Caribbean Writers : a Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook / edited by Daryl Cumber Dance.
New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.

Jack, Belinda. Francophone Literature: An Introductory Survey.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Gilroy, James P., ed. Francophone Literatures of the New World.
Denver: University of Denver, 1982.

Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800-1990.
Greenwood, 1991.

Larrier, Renée Brenda. Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean.
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2000.

Littératures émergentes = Emerging literatures / responsable de la publication: Jean-Marie Grassin. Bern ; New York : P. Lang, c1996. Ngate, Jonathan. Francophone African Fiction: Reading a Literary Tradition.
Trenton: Africa World Press, 1988

Relouzat, Raymond, Tradition orale et imaginaire créole / Raymond Relouzat.
Martinique : Ibis Rouge Editions, 1998.

Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African writers. Third series / edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander.
Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1996.

Viatte, Auguste. Anthologie Littéraire de l'Amérique Francophone; Littératures Canadienne, Louisianaise, Haitienne, de la Martinique, de la Guadeloupe et de la Guyane. Sherbrooke: CELEF, 1971.

Waters, Harold A., Black Theater in French : a Guide / Harold A. Waters.
Quebec : Editions Naaman, c1978.

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Premier (Varies by source, but generally from 1996 on)
Contains a wide range of popular magazines and scholarly journals covering general reference, business, health, social sciences, humanities, education, and general science. Full-text.

Contemporary Authors
Brief biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 authors from the United States and the rest of the world. Covers novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters and each entry typically includes information on career history, writings, and works in progress.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is a comprehensive bibliography for material on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.

Humanities Full Text
Provides full text, images, abstracts, and bibliographic citations for noted scholarly resources as well as specialized magazines in the humanities.

MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, folklore, and film in journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.

Project Muse
Provides full-text access to more than 320 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities; social sciences; and mathematics. Fields covered include literature and criticism; history; the visual and performing arts; cultural studies; education; political science; gender studies; economics; and many others.