Twentieth Century Francophone Literature: French 435/535
Caribbean Francophone Women Writers and Exile
Instructor: Cecile Accilien

This course is designed to introduce students to twentieth-century Caribbean Francophone women writers. Through literary texts and critical analysis students will consider the impact of exile on the formation of identity for French-speaking Caribbean women. Among the issues we will analyze are: what is exile? Internal/external exile; exile and migration; exile and memory, etc

Authors: Maryse Conde, Francoise Ega, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat.

STUDENT HELP
Ask A Librarian
Research Survival Guide
Off Campus Access to Library Databases
Citing Sources
Selecting Sources

FINDING ARTICLES

MLA Bibliography: covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/databases_L-Z.html#m

Humanities Index: Citations to ~500 English-language periodicals in the areas of
archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature, and religion. Provides article citations to the major journals in these disciplines. http://www.lib.pdx.edu/resources/databases/db_descriptions.html#h

French Bibliography: In print. "Critical and biographical references for the study of French literature since 1885." Z2173 .M6 Reference

FINDING JOURNALS

All journals are shelved with the books, except the current year. Current journals are shelved on the Third floor. Look at map: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/about/floormaps/3rdfloormap.shtml

To find the journals you must use the catalog (VIKAT) to locate their call numbers. http://vikat.pdx.edu/

FINDING BOOKS

To find books on your author you must look her up as a SUBJECT. Go to our catalog (VIKAT) at http://vikat.pdx.edu/. Click on SUBJECT. Type in the name:

Some other subject headings:

• Women And Literature West Indies French
• Caribbean literature (French)
• Caribbean Literature French Women Authors History And Criticism
  West Indies French In Literature

ON REFERENCE

Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue français / Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel
Couty, Alain Rey. PQ41 .B412 2001

A guide to French literature : from early modern to postmodern / Jennifer Birkett and
James Kearns. PQ305 .B524 1997

Guide to French literature / Anthony Levi.PQ226 .L48 1992

Dictionary not located on Reference: Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française des origines à 1978 / sous la direction de Ambroise Kom. PSU Stacks PQ3980 .A52 D53 1983

WEBSITES:

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/hum/french/francoph/ Contains 250 links to web sites of scholarly, academic and artistic journals, mostly in French, which
cover some aspect of language, culture or literature in France or the Francophone world.

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