African American Literature Research Guide

Works of literature and the scholarship surrounding those works can be found using SU Libraries' search tool SURF.

A search box is embedded below.This search tool can help you find books in our print collections, most of which are in our Stacks shelving on the 3rd floor. It can also help you to find ebooks, which you can use from anywhere in the world. 

SURF can be searched in a few different ways: 

• Using keywords. Example: historical black literature America
• By author. Example: Richard Wright
• By title. Example: Native Son
• By Subject. Example: Harlem Renaissance

These broad Subject links may help you to browse collections relevant to African American Literature: 

• African Americans Literary collections.
• American literature African American authors.
• American literature African American authors Encyclopedias.
• American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism.
• African Americans Intellectual life 17th century.
• African Americans Intellectual life 18th century.
• African Americans Intellectual life 19th century.
• Literary criticism American African American.
• Slaves' writings, American History and criticism.
• Slavery in literature.