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LITERATURE
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LITERATURE PACKAGES
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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!
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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!
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INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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Caribbean Literature
More than a million and a half Africans were brought to the
Caribbean between the 15th and 19th
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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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 20th
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.
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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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