LibGuides: Caribbean Literature: Databases & Journals

Caribbean Literature
A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 enables users to search more than 66 newspaper titles from 22 islands, including Bermuda, published in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
JSTOR
More than 2000 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science, and social science disciplines. Most full-text access is archival; some current full text.
Also includes a collection of over 500 Spanish-language e-books, which are student tech fee funded.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
LitFinder (Gale Literature)
LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more!
MLA International Bibliography
Provides a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations . The indexed materials coverage is international. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

Funded by statewide allocation.
ProQuest One Literature
This database replaces Literature Online (LION). ProQuest One Literature contains a large amount of primary works, including rare texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theater performances, and author readings. In addition, there are citations from thousands of journals, monographs, and dissertations.
Other sources, such as book reviews and criticism, are found in interdisciplinary publications ranging from the humanities to history, thus providing diverse, global perspectives in sources from all over the world, the majority being full-text.

Anthurium
Contains Caribbean fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art.
Boletín de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe
Addresses major debates in Latin America including problems of historical interpretations in social science research of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Calabash
an international literary journal dedicated to publishing works encompassing, but not limited to, the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.
Callaloo
Provides a mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art.
Caribbean Quarterly
Scholarly articles, personal and critical essays, public lectures, poetry, short fiction, and book reviews.
Caribbean Studies
Designed for anyone interested in keeping up with the ongoing research and writing in the field of Caribbean studies.
Journal of Caribbean History
Journal of Caribbean literatures
Devoted entirely to literature, in all genres, by, about, and concerning the writers and critics of the Caribbean.
Journal of postcolonial writing
Devoted to the study of literatures in English and in the new English dialects written throughout the world and variously termed postcolonial or new literatures in English, Commonwealth literature, contact literature, global English or resistance literature.
Journal of West Indian Literature
Publishes research in West Indian literature for students and scholars working in that field.
Wasafiri
Dedicated to the teaching of multicultural english literature at the secondary school, the college and university level.

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