Literature

Rich in sociological and historical significance, literature collections from Alexander Street delivers the writings of place, gender, and race. 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.

Students and faculty turn to Alexander Street for:

Diverse representation: Our resources give voice to women and men from underrepresented groups across the world, including African Americans, Africans, Southeast Asians, Latin Americans, Latinos, Australians, and Pacific Islanders.

Rare materials: Content includes hard-to-find and previously unpublished literature—original-language poetry, short stories, novels, essays, folklore, banned comics, graphic novels, manuscripts, plays, and memoirs.

Exceptional partners: Works come from best-in-class publishers including the American Folk Lore Society, Auckland University Press, EC Comics, The Hatch Billops Collection, Pickering & Chatto, Peepal Tree Press, Penguin Books India, Time Books International, Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal, and others.

Award-winning collections: Our literature resources have received widespread acclaim for their quality and usability. Awards include Library Journal Best Reference Database (Romanticism Redefined, Black Short Fiction and Folklore) and Charleston Advisor Reader’s Choice Award (Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume I).

The most content: Together, these growing literature resources provide more than 900,000 pages of text, with more added regularly.