Library Resources for ENGL850 Seminar: Exploring the literature of Toni Morrison as neo-slave narratives Professor: Dr. Rashidah Jaami' Muhammad  By Diane Dates Casey

General Information

• Library Information for Humanities Students - General information about using the Governors State University Library.
• Governors State University Library - Main page for GSU Library Web site.

Online Library Catalog

• GSU Online Catalog - The web version of GSU Library Online Catalog where books, videos, sound recordings, computer files can be found.  Also, the titles of the journals owned by GSU can be identified with a title search.

Indexes for Journal Articles

• MLA Bibliography   Indexes language and literary journals.

Full-text Journal Article Databases 

• Academic Search Complete
• FirstSearch
• JSTOR
• Oxford English Dictionary  Click on Enter OED Online. 
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest  

While the above links are only a sampling of GSU's full-text databases, they probably will contain the articles relevant to this assignment, if they are full-text online.  To determine which database might contain an article in full-text go to the Full-text Journals List. 

Web Resources  on Slave Narratives and Toni Morrison
The following links may have information relevant to course assignments:

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920: Special Presentation
• Slave Narratives
• The Slave Past
• Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
• African American Links
• Slave Narratives
• The Givens Collection of African American Literature
• Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection (Chicago Public Library) 
• Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• Texts By and About African Americans, University of Virginia
• VoS English Literature: Afro-American Literature
• Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
• Voices From the Gaps: Toni Morrison
• Toni Morrison in Context
• Toni Morrison Links 

Interlibrary Loan
When books and journal articles are unavailable through I-Share or not included in GSU's print or full-text online journals collections, place an Interlibrary Loan Request for the materials at the Reference Desk in the library or online.

• Request a Book via Interlibrary Loan
• Request a Journal Article via Interlibrary Loan

Resources for Writing Research Papers

• Governors State Regional Online Writing Center (GROWL)  
• Writing About Literature - Norton Publishers provide resources on how to critique and write about literature. 

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