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Lorraine Hansberry

Houff Library Resources to use for finding:

1. Criticism of A Raisin in the Sun
2. Biographical Information on Lorraine Hansberry

 

Criticism

Print Sources
1. Contemporary Literary Criticism,  Volume 17, p. 182 & Volume 62, p.209
    Call Number - Ref PN 81 .C6 v.17,62

2. Masterpieces of African American Literature, p. 467-470.
    Call Number Ref PS 153 .N5 M264 1992.

3. Masterplots II Drama Series, Volume 3, p. 1300-1303.
    Call Number Ref PN 6112.5 .M37 1990 v.3

Online Sources - be sure and follow all the steps on our Remote Access Directions page to be able to access these databases from your home computer


African-American poetry 1760-1900 (Chadwyck-Healey)
American Poetry Full-Text Database
Arts & Humanities Search (VIVA-FirstSearch) 
 
Books in Print (VIVA) Full-text articles available
English Poetry Full-Text Database
English Verse Drama Database

JSTOR Full-text articles available (BRCC now subscribes to all of JSTOR's modules - Arts & Sciences I-IV,  Biological Sciences, Business I & II, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature and Mathematics & Statistics.)
Literature Resource Center (VIVA)
  Full-text articles available
MLA International Bibliography (VIVA)
 
Project Muse (VIVA)
 Full-text articles available
ProQuest Historical New York Times Newspaper 
Full-text articles from 1851-2001.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (VIVA-CSA)
Ulrich's Periodical Directory  (VIVA)
 Full-text articles available
Wiley InterScience

Can't find the article you want full-text?  Try these two tactics:
1.  Type in the journal name in these two links:  VIVA Online Journal Locator
or the VCCS Online Journal Search  They will tell you which of our databases, if any, index that particular journal.  Maybe it will be full-text in a different database than you tried originally.
2. 
Try typing the article title in GoogleSometimes you can find it free on the author's home page or in an online journal.

Biographical Information 

Print Sources

1. Contemporary Authors, Volume 30 & 50
    Call Number - Ref Z 1224 . C58

2. American Writers, Volume 2,  p. 621
    Call Number - Ref PS 129 .A58 1998 v. 2

3. Voices of Multicultural America, p. 487-491.
    Call Number - Ref PS 663 .M55 V64 1996

4. African American Writers, p. 147-158.
    Call Number - Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1990

5. Concise Dictionary of Literary Biography The New Consciousness, 1941-1968, p. 244-258.
    Call Number - Ref PS 129 C66 v. 5. 

Online Sources

Literature Resource Center (VIVA)
  Full-text articles available

Searching the World Wide Web

Be careful limiting your research to the world wide web only. A web search MAY NOT yield authoritative sites for biographical and critical information on Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun. See examples below.  Be sure to always use our Evaluating Websites guide for any college-level assignments that allow you to use the Internet.

Here are some results using the following search strategies
1. +"raisin in the sun" +"hansberry"
2. +"raisin in the sun" +"criticism"

Example 1. Voices From Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Biography, Bibliography and Related Links)
Example 2.
The San Antonio College LitWeb Lorraine Hansberry Page
Example 3. Online Concordance to A Raisin in the Sun (Complete "Searchable" Dialogue of the Play).

Style Manuals

Online Citation Builders  WARNING:  The accuracy of citations generated by these sites cannot be fully guaranteed.  Use the cheat sheets below to check your citations.

Citation Builder (MLA, APA, Scientific Style) **Shenandoah Valley Governor School conducted a research study on our online citation builders and determined that the Citation Builder was the one most error free.***
Citation Machine (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian*Click More Resources at the top of the MLA or APA page to bring up
Work from a Subscription Service Accessed through a Library - one or more authors which is what you need to cite an article from one of the library's databases
BibBuilder (MLA)  
Citation Wizard (APA, Chicago, CBE, ISO, MLA)
EasyBib (MLA)
Knight Cite - MLA, APA, Chicago)
Noodle Tools (MLA)
NoodleBib (MLA, APA)
SourceAid (MLA, APA, Chicago. CMS, CSE)
University of North Carolina University Library (MLA, APA)
UTEL MLA-Style Bibliography Builder 1.0b (MLA)

EBSCO databases do the citations for you.  Click here for further information on MLA and APA.
 

MLA and APA cheat sheets:
Citation Style for Research Papers (includes APA, MLA, and AMA)
Turabian Style
Citing Sources from Duke University
Online Writers Workshop (Includes APA & MLA Guides)
University of Illinois
APA Guide from Purdue's On-line Writing Lab

MLA Guide from Purdue's On-line Writing Lab
UW-Madison Writing Center Writer's Handbook
Guide for Writing Research Papers APA Style

Your Research Paper's Format
A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on MLA Documentation
How to write an Annotated Bibliography

APA Cheat Sheet
MLA Cheat Sheet

 

8/6/09