- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Toni Morrison.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | toni morrison Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals." |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| African American History and Culture | toni morrison Perform the default search. |
Provides a biography and a photo. |
| Arts & & Sciences Collection | toni morrison JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a number of worthy items mostly reviews. |
| Contemporary Authors | toni morrison Perform the default search. |
Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive list for further reading about the author. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | toni morrison Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | toni morrison Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication." |
Provides a large number of worthy items. |
| Literature Resource Center | toni morrison Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text). |
Provides a small number of quality documents. |
| netLibrary | toni morrison Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox. |
Provides a large number of eBooks that refer to the author, along with a few that focus on his life and works. |
| Research Library Complete | toni morrison Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals." |
Provides a good number of excellent items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Morrison, Toni link.
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Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography and two supplements. |
| Sirs Renaissance | toni morrison Perform the "Quick Search." |
Provides a number of excellent items. |
| Twayne Authors Series- Twayne World, English and US Authors |
Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Morrison, Toni link. |
Provides a number of quality items |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic
books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide
via the Internet.
Mythic Black Fiction: the transformation of history
PS153N5C35 1986
Location: Troy, ALBeloved: a novel
PS3563O8749B4 1988b
Location: Troy, ALJazz
PS3563O8749J38 1992
Location: Troy, ALSong of Solomon
PS3563O8749S66 1977
Location: Troy, ALThe aesthetics of Toni Morrison: speaking the unspeakable
PS3563O8749Z53 2000
Location: Troy, AL; DothanQuiet as it's kept: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
PS3563O8749Z57 2000
Location: Troy, ALThe bluest eye
PS3563 .O8749 B55 1994X
Location: DothanArguing immigration: the debate over the changing face of America
JV6455.5 .A74 1994
Location: Phenix CityParadise
PS3563 .O8749 P37 1998B
Location: Troy, ALBlack Orpheus: music in African American fiction from the Harlem renaissance to Toni Morrison
Location: eBookBridging the Americas: the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
Location: eBookCircles of sorrow, lines of struggle: the novels of Toni Morrison
Location: eBookDangerous freedom: fusion and fragmentation in Toni Morrison's novels
Location: eBookMaternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
Location: eBookProphets of recognition: ideology and the individual in novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty
Location: eBookQuiet as it's kept: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
Location: eBookToni Morrison
Location: eBookToni Morrison: a critical companion
Location: eBookToni Morrison's beloved and the apotropaic imagination
Location: eBookWriting prejudices: the psychoanalysis and pedagogy of discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison
Location: eBook
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Anniina’s
Toni Morrison Page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
- Morrison, Toni:
*1931
http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/morrisont
- Toni Morrison (1931-
)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm
- Toni Morrison
http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1993a.html
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