Jim Dan Hill Library: English & Literature: American Literature

Featured Journals

The African American Review, according to its website, is a "scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews." It is published quarterly, or four times per year.
American Literary History is a quarterly publication that, per the hosting platform, surveys U.S. culture "through essays, position papers, and commentaries, along with reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished diaries, letters, and stories."
American Literary Realism describes itself as bringing "readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," and notes that "r]ecent issues have included essays on Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman."
Early American Literature, a publication of a division of the Modern Language Association, is described as "examining American literature from its inception through the early national period, about 1830"
Studies in American Fiction, according to the hosting platform, "publishes reviews and articles on a wide temporal range in American fiction: from neglected and rediscovered early U.S. writers . . . to the emergent authors of the present day.

These selections generally emphasize collections centering on the United States and North America, though some may include a broader reach.

Asian American Drama

Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.
Black Drama

Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 440 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.
Twentieth Century North American Drama

Contains 2,059 plays by 434 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.