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Achebe, Chinua
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Things Fall Apart
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Source Citation: "Things Fall Apart," in Novels for Students, Vol. 2, Gale Research, 1997. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Allende, Isabel
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House of Spirits Source: "Parody or Piracy: The Relationship of The House of Spirits to One Hundred Years of Solitude, " in Latin American Literary Review, Vol. XVI, No. 32, July-December, 1988, pp. 16-28.
Allende, Isabel House of Spirits
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Source Citation: Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits, in Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Book Two, Gale Research, 1995. DISCovering Authors
Allende, Isabel House of Spirits Source: in a review of The House of the Spirits, in The New York Times, May 9, 1985, p. 23.
Anaya, Rudolfo
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Bless Me, Ultima Source: "Rudolfo A. Anaya," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 82: Chicano Writers, First Series, edited by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Gale Research Inc., 1989,. Criticism about: Bless Me, Ultima; Heart of Aztlan; Tortuga; The Silence of the Llano; "The Road to Platero"; "Story"; "B. Traven Is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca"; The Legend of La Llorona; The Adventures of Juan Chicaspatas
Angelou, Maya
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source Citation: "Maya Angelou." U*X*L Junior DISCovering Authors. U*X*L, 1998. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000

Atwood, Margaret
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Handmaid's Tale
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Source Citation: "The Handmaid's Tale," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors
Baldwin, James
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Go Tell It On The Mountain
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Source Citation: "Go Tell It On The Mountain," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Butler, Octavia
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Wild Seed
Clay's Ark

Source Citation: "Octavia E. Butler." Newsmakers 1999, Issue 3. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection.
Butler, Octavia Wild Seed
Clay's Ark
Parable of the Sower
Source: "Butler, Octavia (Estelle)," in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd edition, edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994, pp. 156-58.
Butler, Octavia Wild Seed
Clay's Ark
Source: "Octavia E. Butler," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955, Criticism about: Wild Seed; Patternmaster; Kindred; Mind of My Mind; Survivor; Clay's Ark
Butler, Octavia

Wild Seed
Clay's Ark
Parable of the Sower

Source: "Butler, Octavia (Estelle)," in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd edition, edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994, pp. 156-58. Criticism about: "Speech Sounds"; Bloodchild; Parable of the Talents; Patternmaster; Wild Seed; Mind of My Mind; Clay's Ark; Survivor; Kindred; Imago; Dawn; Adulthood Rites; Parable of the Sower
Castillo, Ana
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So Far from God Source Citation: "Ana Castillo." Newsmakers 2000, Issue 4. Gale Group, 2000. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000.
Cisneros, Sandra
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House on Mango Street
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Source Citation: "The House on Mango Street," in Novels for Students, Vol. 2, Gale Research, 1997. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Conley , Robert
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Witch of Goingsnake Source: The Witch of Goingsnake, and Other Stories, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 234, No. 11, September 9, 1988, pp. 118-19. Criticism about: The Witch of Goingsnake, and Other Stories; "Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography".
Conley , Robert Witch of Goingsnake Source: in a review of The Witch of Goingsnake, and Other Stories, in Western American Literature, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, August, 1989, pp. 170-71.
Dorris, Michael
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Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Source Citation: "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water," in Novels for Students, Vol. 3, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors

Dorris, Michael Yellow Raft in Blue Water Source: a review of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 21, 1987, p. 2. Criticism about: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Dorris, Michael Yellow Raft in Blue Water Source: "Multiple Perspectives," in The New York Times, May 9, 1987, p. 17. Criticism about: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Ellison, Ralph
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Invisible Man Source Citation: "Ralph Ellison." DISCovering Multicultural America. Gale Research, 1996.
Emechetam Buchi
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Bride Price
Joys of Motherhood
Source: in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander, Gale Research Company, 1992, Criticism about: In the Ditch; Second-Class Citizen; Head above Water; The Bride Price: A Novel; The Slave Girl: A Novel; The Joys of Motherhood: A Novel
Emechetam Buchi Bride Price Source: African Children's and Youth Literature Chapter 2: The Bride Price: A Masterpiece of African Youth Literature - TWAYNE Authors
Esquivel, Laura
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Source Citation: Like Water for Chocolate, in Novels for Students, Vol. 5, The Gale Group, 1999. DISCovering
Authors. Gale Group, 1999
Gibson, William
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Miracle Worker
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Source Citation: "The Miracle Worker," in Drama for Students, Vol. 2, Gale Research, 1997. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Gordimer, Nadine
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July's People
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Source Citation: "July's People," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.

Haley, Arthur
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Autobiography of Malcolm X Source Citation: "Autobiography of Malcolm X Is Published, 1965." DISCovering U.S. History. Gale Research, 1997.
Hayslip, Le Ly
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Source Citation: "Le Ly Hayslip." U*X*L Biographies. U*X*L, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection.
Head, Bessie
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When Rain Clouds Gather Source: "Bessie Head," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, First Series, edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander, Gale Research Inc., 1992, pp.186-92. Criticism about: When Rain Clouds Gather; Maru; A Question of Power; The Collector of Treasures, and Other Botswana Village Tales; "The Deep River: A Story of Ancient Tribal Migration"; Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind;
Hurston, Nora
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Source Citation: "Their Eyes Were Watching God," in Novels for Students, Vol. 3, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors
Ishiguro, Kazuo
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Artist of the Floating World Source: "On the High Wire," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XXXVI, No. 19, December 7, 1989. pp. 3-4. Criticism about: A Pale View of Hills; An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo Artist of the Floating World Source: "Two Close Looks at Faraway," in Brick: A Journal of Reviews, No. 31, Fall, 1987, pp. 36-8. Criticism about: An Artist of the Floating World
Kingston, Maxine Hong
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Woman Warrior Source: "Maxine Kingston's China Men: The Family Historian as Epic Poet," in MELUS, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter, 1980, pp. 3-22. Criticism about: China Men; The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Kingston, Maxine Hong Woman Warrior Source: "Maxine Hong Kingston," in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980, edited by Karen L. Rood, Jean W. Ross, and Richard Ziegfeld, Gale Research Company, 1981, 235-41. Criticism about: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Kosinski, Jerzy
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Painted Bird

Source Citation: Jerzy Kosinski: The Painted Bird,in Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Gale Research, 1990. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.

La Guma, Alex
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Walk in the Night and Other Stories Source: "Alex La Guma," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, First Series, edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander, Gale Research Inc., 1992, Criticism about: "Nocturne"; "Out of Darkness"; A Walk in the Night; A Walk in the Night and Other Stories

Mathabane,
Johannes
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Kaffir Boy Source: "Making Good in the Promised Land," in The New York Times Book Review, August 13, 1989, p. 19. Criticism about: Kaffir Boy in America:
Morrison, Toni

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Bluest Eye
Sula
Song of Solomon
Source: "Winging Upward, Black Women: Sarah E. Wright, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker," in her Reaching Out: Sensitivity and Order in Recent American Fiction by Women, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979, pp. 112-74. Criticism about: Song of Solomon; The Bluest Eye; Sula
Morrison, Toni

Beloved
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Source Citation: Toni Morrison: Beloved, in Characters in Twentieth-Century Literature, Gale Research, 1990. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000
Morrison, Toni Bluest Eye
Sula
Song of Solomon
Source: "Theme, Characterization, and Style in the Works of Toni Morrison," in Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, edited by Mari Evans, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984, pp. 361-69. Criticism about: The Bluest Eye; Sula; Song of Solomon
Mukherjee, Bharati
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Jasmine Source: in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd edition, edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994. Criticism about: The Middleman and Other Stories; The Tiger's Daughter; Wife; Jasmine; The Holder of the World; Darkness
Naipaul, V.S.
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Miguel Street Source: in a review of Three Novels, in The New York Times, January 17, 1983, p. C20. Criticism about: Three Novels; The Mystic Masseur; The Suffrage of Elvira; Miguel Street;
Naipaul, V.S. Miguel Street Source: "V.S. Naipaul," in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, Volume 8: Contemporary Writers, 1960-Present, Gale, 1992, pp. 283-97. Criticism about: Miguel Street; The Mystic Masseur; The Suffrage of Elvira

Parks,Gordon
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Choice of Weapons Source: "No Catch for the Hawk," in Saturday Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 7, February 12, 1966, p. 40. Criticism about: A Choice of Weapons
Parks,Gordon Choice of Weapons Source: "Gordon Parks," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955, edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Davis, Gale Research Company, 1984, pp. 203-208. Criticism about: Flash Photography; The Learning Tree; A Choice of Weapons;
Rodriguez, Richard
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Hunger of Memory Source: "Richard Rodriguez," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 82: Chicano Writers, First Series, edited by Francisco A. Lomell and Carl R. Shirley, Gale Research Company,1989, pp. 214-216. Criticism about: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Shange, Ntozake
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Betsey Brown
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Source Citation: "Ntozake Shange." DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Silko, Leslie
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Ceremony
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Source Citation: "Ceremony," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Silko, Leslie Ceremony Source Citation: Truesdale, C. W., "Tradition and Ceremony: Leslie Marmon Silko as an American Novelist," in North DakotaQuarterly, Vol. 59, No. 4, Fall, 1991, pp. 200-228. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Soto, Gary
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Baseball in April Source: "Gary Soto," in Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 10, edited by Kevin Hile, Gale Research Inc., 1993, pp. 175-82.
Soto, Gary Baseball in April Source Citation: "Gary Soto." U*X*L Junior DISCovering Authors. U*X*L, 1998. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000
Soyinka, Wole
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Ake: The Years of Childhood Source: "Wole Soyinka," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 125: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black Africa Writers, edited by Bernth Lindfors and Reinhard Sander, Gale Research Inc., 1993, pp. 298-326. Criticism about: Ake: The Years of Childhood
Tan, Amy
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Joy Luck Club
Kitchen God's Wife

Source: in a review of The Kitchen God's Wife, in The Women's Review of Books, September, 1991, pp. 1, 3-4. Criticism about: The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God's Wife
Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club
Kitchen God's Wife
Source: "Amy Tan," in Reference Guide to American Literature, 3rd edition, edited by Jim Kamp, St. James Press, 1994, pp. 821-22. Criticism about: The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God's Wife
Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club Source: "Overview of The Joy Luck Club," in Exploring Novels, Gale, 1998. Criticism about: The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club
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Source Citation: "The Joy Luck Club," in Novels for Students, Vol. 1, Gale Research, 1997. DISCovering Authors.
Walker, Alice
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Color Purple Source Citation: "Alice Walker." DISCovering Biography. Gale Research, 1997. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000
Wiesel, Elie Night Source Citation: "Wiesel's Night Recalls the Holocaust, 1956." DISCovering World History. Gale Research, 1997. Reproduced inDiscovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000.
Wiesel, Elie
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Night

Source Citation: "Night," in Novels for Students, Vol. 4, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000.

Wilson, August
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Fences
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Source Citation: "Fences," in Drama for Students, Vol. 3, Gale Research, 1998. DISCovering Authors. Gale Group, 1999.
Wilson, Harriet
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Our Nig
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Source Citation: Harriet E. Wilson: Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There, in Characters in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gale Research, 1993.
Wright, Richard
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Black Boy
Native Son

Source Citation: "Richard Wright." DISCovering Multicultural America. Gale Research, 1996. Reproduced in Discovering Collection. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. December, 2000
Wright, Richard

Black Boy
Native Son

Source Citation: Sidonie Ann Smith. "Richard Wright's Black Boy: The Creative Impulse as Rebellion". The Southern Literary Journal, 1972.