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Subject guide for research in English literature

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Introduction to Diverse Voices and Topics page

This page contains resources highlighting different kinds of marginalized identity groups within English literature. These include Gender Identity & Sexuality, Race & Ethnicity, and Disability. To incorporate those that identify with multiple marginalized groups, there is also an Intersectionality section containing resources that overlap two or more categories.

Gender Identity & Sexuality

Race & Ethnicity

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Race & Ethnicity in Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • The Caribbean Writer
  • Journal of Ethnic American Literature
  • Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
  • African American Review
  • Southeast Asian Review of English

Disability

To find related journals through Journal Search, you can type in a journal’s title or ISSN in the Search bar, or you can browse under the English subsection of the Languages & Literatures category to explore available titles.

Here are some eJournal titles for Disability in Literature that you can find in Journal Search:

  • Disability Studies Quarterly

One of the options in the dropdown menu for catalog searching is Subject. Searching by Subject means finding specific Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSHs), which tell you what a work is about using standardized rules for the order of terms, the language used, etc. It works best when you already know what to look for. 

Here are some Library of Congress Subject Headings that you can use in a Subject search to lead you to relevant works: 

  • People with disabilities in literature
  • Disabilities in literature

Intersectionality