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	Alexander Street Literature Alexander Street Literature brings together the hundreds of thousands of pages of poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, and essays of 8 Alexander Street individual literature collections, cross-searchable through a new interface. This is the literature you don’t have in your library through other resources—in copyright, contemporary, global, and diverse. Rich in sociological and historical significance, this collection delivers the literatures of place, gender, and race. With new content added on a regular basis, the current package will grow to more than 600,000 pages of poetry and prose. Students and scholars of literature, history, diversity studies, politics, transatlantic studies, postcolonial history, geography, cultural studies, and anthropology can now explore these important works that have previously not been available. Included is all the content in these Alexander Street collections: Latino Literature; Latin American Women Writers; Black Women Writers; Black Short Fiction and Folklore; South and Southeast Asian Literature; Caribbean Literature; Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period; and Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Additional collections may be added over time. Libraries that subscribe to both Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama will have the power to cross search the content in both packages through a single interface!
	Alexander Street Drama Alexander Street Drama includes all the full-text plays in 6 Alexander Street drama collections (Black Drama, Asian American Drama, Latino Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama, North American Indian Drama, and North American Women's Drama), nearly 6,000 works, all cross-searchable. Also included is the powerful North American Theatre Online reference project—the largest theatre reference tool ever created. The resource is updated regularly and already contains hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records about the people, theatres, plays, productions, and other elements associated with the study of drama. Related ephemera, including posters, playbills, photos, theatre diagrams, and more, are an important component of Alexander Street Drama, because drama instruction is not merely the study of words on a page. Taken together, the collections that make up Alexander Street Drama give students and scholars the most exciting and complete new tools for study in this area. Libraries that subscribe to both Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama will have the power to cross search the content in both packages through a single interface!
	INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS
	Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels Underground and Independent Comics is the first-ever scholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels. From the shocking and explicit work of young artists exploring newfound freedoms to intricate and beautiful designs of aesthetic craftsmanship, the comic book has shown itself to be a medium capable of both the offensive and the sublime. This collection documents the entire spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels, with 75,000 pages of original material from the 1960s to today along with more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, including The Comics Journal.
	The Romantic Era Redefined The Romantic Era Redefined is a new, genre-redefining online collection of Romantic-era literature. Scholars and students already have access to the major figures of the period, but what about the rest of the canon? Now you can access writings by the most important writers from Britain, the British Empire, and North America. With a focus on the “second generation” of writings, in the years from 1800 to 1830, The Romantic Era Redefined brings something distinctly new to academic study, bringing access to previously inaccessible works.
	Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
	Theatre in Video Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama. For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and course reserves.
	Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period This collection comprises more than eighty volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, a significant, but largely underappreciated body of work. Most of the texts are rare, existing in print in fewer than five libraries in the world. Along with the poetic texts are biographical and critical essays contributed by the world’s foremost poetry scholars and other supporting resources.
	Caribbean Literature More than a million and a half Africans were brought to the Caribbean between the 15^th and 19^th centuries. Today, their descendants are active in literature and the arts, producing literature with strong and direct ties to traditional African expressions. At completion Caribbean Literature will contain 100,000 pages of text with associated images. Writers share tales of survival, exile, resistance, endurance, and emigration in their native dialects making it a vital resource for those seeking to hear and understand the often ignored voices of the Black Diaspora.
	Black Women Writers Black Women Writers brings together more than 100,000 pages of literature and essays written by black women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, black women have needed to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings. With this landmark collection, Alexander Street makes accessing these resources easy at last, bringing scholars the voices of Africana women along with a tool for understanding the feminine perspective on the diversity and development of black people in the Diaspora.
	Black Short Fiction and Folklore Black Short Fiction and Folklore brings together 8,000 works by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, from the earliest times to the present. Drawn from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors, much of the collection is fugitive, ephemeral, or previously unpublished. It presents a variety of traditions ranging from early African oral traditions to today’s hip-hop and covers fables, parables, ballads, folktales, short stories, trickster tales, story cycles, and novellas. For scholars of history, sociology, anthropology, and literature.
	Latin American Women Writers Latin America is immense not only in its size—twice the area of Europe, and stretching from the Rio Grande in Texas to Cape Horn in Patagonia—but in its range of cultural and literary expression. What we call “Latin American culture” is a composite of the rich and diverse output of 20 sovereign countries. Each had its unique struggle for independence and particular ways in which it evolved after the end of colonization. Literature is the best blueprint for following the social and cultural developments within these Ibero-American nations. In Latin American Women Writers, Alexander Street Press presents an electronic collection of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present. The 100,000 pages of works in their original languages comprise literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays.
	Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction Discover more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories, 20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The majority of the works are in English, with selected works of particular importance in Spanish. The collection begins with the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest in the early 19th century and follows through to include contemporary works. Scholars in social history, literature, and Latino studies will find value in Latino Literature.
	South and Southeast Asian Literature in English South and Southeast Asian writers working in English, both in Asia and throughout their diasporas, have developed a rich and exciting literary output. The literature included here displays the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness of writers negotiating multiple cultural identities and the realities of living in a transnational world. Providing deep insights into the modern South Asian experience and its traditional connections, South and Southeast Asian Literature brings together 100,000 pages of fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials from these writers.
	North American Women's Drama This major new initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women from the United States and Canada, including the complete works of leading playwrights along with those of lesser-known but important writers. Many of the plays are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Relevant for the study of literature, women's studies, and the history of feminism.
	Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period Edited by Nancy Kushigian and Stephen Behrendt, Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period contains over 60 volumes of rare lyric poetry, together with reviews, essays and associated bibliographical and biographical material written between 1789 and 1832. Conventional anthologies and histories of Scottish literature have been composed largely of the works of male authors. Seldom have any but the most specialized twentieth-century literary histories of the period paid serious attention to the dozens of Scottish women poets who were active at the time and whose work and influence were in many instances familiar and admired by their male contemporaries.
	Asian American Drama With 250 plays, this is a landmark collection in a rapidly developing genre. It documents the Asian American experience as dramatized in works by writers from the 18th century to the present, together with biographies, a performance database, production details, and associated visual resources, including photos, playbills, and manuscript images.
	North American Theatre Online North American Theatre Online will be the largest, most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It will provide detailed bibliographic information on more than 10,000 plays – including references to works that have never been published. It will contain thousands of facts about theaters, authors, theatrical companies, and individuals, as well as some 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera.
	Twentieth Century North American Drama From Maxwell Anderson to Marsha Norman, the complete works of major North American playwrights. Alongside the works of the most successful writers of the century are the lesser-known but important works of African Americans, Asian Americans, gay and lesbian writers, and others. Hundreds of unpublished plays, production information, playbills, and theatre details round out the collection.
	North American Indian Drama North American Indian Drama brings together the full text of more than 200 plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20^th century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is often overlooked or inaccessible. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
	Black Drama The project brings together 1,200 plays, almost a quarter of which are previously unpublished. Nowhere else will researchers see these works! They have been carefully selected by well-known experts such as James V. Hatch, a board of scholars, and the writers themselves. The collection includes the complete works of more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. Starting with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this indispensable collection presents the writings together with biographies, playbills, images, production notes, performance information, and much more.
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