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Alexander Street Literature

Alexander Street Literature is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Today, Alexander Street Literature features 8 collections and offers more than 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels. With new content being added on a regular basis, the current package will grow to over 500,000 pages of poetry and prose. Learn more »

Alexander Street Literature contains the following literature collections. Use the toolbar above to browse and cross-search these collections:

Black Short Fiction and Folklore
Black Women Writers
Caribbean Literature
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Latin American Women Writers
Latino Literature
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
South and Southeast Asian Literature

A related package, Alexander Street Drama, is comprised of Alexander Street’s full-text play collections plus the North American Theatre Online reference database.

Alexander Street Drama includes the North American Theatre Online reference index, linking to full-text reference works and Web resources, and also linking to the full-text plays in our collections of Asian American drama; African, African American, and African Diaspora drama; American Indian and Canadian First Nation drama; women's drama; twentieth-century North American Drama, and Latino drama.

Coming soon: If a library subscribes to both packages—Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama—all the fiction, poetry, and plays will be cross-searchable through this Alexander Street Literature interface.

FEATURED

Drive, by Lorna Dee Cervantes
A poetry collection that engages with contemporary cultural and political themes while exploring the heritage, influences, and experiences of this celebrated Chicana writer.

Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign, by Pico Iyer
This renowned author and global traveler writes about his journeys in Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

The Prodigal, by Derek Walcott
Distanced from his native St. Lucia by his emigration to New York, Nobel-laureate Derek Walcott explores the theme of exile in this book-length poem.

Endangered Species, by Angela Barry
Angela Barry writes of Bermudan society, the Caribbean, the United States, and a sense of decentralized cultural identity in this collection of short stories.