Research Guides: Women Writing Desire: Caribbean Fiction and Film: Primary Sources

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Subjects: Asian Studies and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Education, English and Literature, First Year Writing (FYS and CSEM) , French and Francophone, Hispanic Studies, History, Italian, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Spanish and Latin American Literature

African Diaspora, 1860-present

Provides digitized primary source documents from African diasporic communities around the world, with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France. Also includes secondary sources and videos.
Black Drama

1,700+ full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.
Database available through at least May 31, 2028, as part of ProQuest's Evidence-Based Acquisition Program.
LACLI
A repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. Discover 1,300+ audiovisual collections, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives, and more!