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Literature: Ethnic & Minority Focus
African American Literature Jewish Literature
Gay & Lesbian Literature Arabic Literature
Native American Literature Women's Literature
African American Literature:
African American English Literature (Electronic Text Center)
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
Here, find full-text works of various African American poets, novelists, and short story writers.  Most of these materials are from the 1800's or very early 1900's and thus are copyright free.
 
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
This well organized page from the Schomburg Collection has categories to search by author, title, fiction, poetry, biography and more.
 
Perspectives in American Literature: Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937 (Paul P. Reuben)
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html
This is a book chapter covering "the period from the end of World War I ...through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay." Included are sections on authors and a substantial bibliography.
 
Voices From the Gaps:  Women Writers of Color  (Univ. of Minnesota)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
 
Writing Black (Keele University,UK)
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit-black.html
This page from Britain has links to resources about, and texts of, major African American authors.
 
Gay & Lesbian Literature:
Blythe House Quarterly
http://www.blithe.com/
"An online literary magazine featuring a diversity of new short stories by emerging and established gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors."

The International Gay and Lesbian Review
http://gaybookreviews.info/
Find abstracts and reviews of both fiction and non-fiction books relating to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
 and Transgendered Studies.

Parallel Lives, Invisible Lives: Black Homosexuality in 20th Century Black Literature
(Rashid Darden, Georgetown University)
http://www.geocities.com/coolidge_colt/english/

Jewish Literature:
Nextbook:  A Gateway to Jewish Literature, Culture, and Ideas
http://www.nextbook.org/index.html
Along with cultural news, find here lists of Jewish Literature by title, author, and category.

Literature of the Holocaust
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html

Arabic Literature
The following Web pages contain translations of materials that have been written in Arabic or French.

Arab Gateway:  Literature
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/lit.htm
Here find information on traditional folk literature, modern literature poetry, pre-Islamic literature, and Palestinian Literature.

Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/mahfouz.htm

Middle East & Jewish Studies:  Arabic Literature  (Columbia University)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/arabic_lit.html
 
Native American Literature:
General:
Native American Sites  (Lisa A. Mitten, Choice Magazine)
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
This site lists many excellent web sources related to Native Americans including information on Native Nations, Languages, Media, Festivals, Military, etc.  Much good material

Native American Literature  (Will Karkavelas, Osaka University)
http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/literature.html
Scroll down for Bibliographies, articles about American Indian Literature, American Indian Writing and much more.

Electronic Text Center:  Native Americans
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Native-American.html
You must click on the following link: "search all unrestricted works including Native American texts" so as not to run into subscription databases restricted to University of Virginia Users.

Native American Authors  (Internet Public Library)
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/
You may browse by Author, Title, or Tribe at this site.  Created by Univ. of Michigan graduate students, author entries include brief biographies, links to related sites, and bibliographies. Information on tribes includes related links to tribal sites and to authors.

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/
On this site you will find newsletters and an online, searchable, journal SAILS (Studies in American Indian Literatures).  To access this journal from March 2004 on, use the Ely Library Database Project Muse (Limited to Westfield State University Community).

Women's Literature:

Celebration of Women Writers  (Mary Mark Ockerbloom)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
Click on Authors & Books or Bibliographies for information on specific writers.  Includes a writer's Dictionaryand a special collection of women's writing. Also available in Spanish.
 

Voices From the Gaps:  Women Writers of Color  (Univ. of Minnesota)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

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