Literature and Drama

Since our founding in 2000, Alexander Street Press’s mission has been to “make silent voices heard,” which we achieve through the creation of high quality electronic resources for teaching and learning. From the very beginning, we’ve been devoted to examining literature in its various forms across the world. Much of the work collected in our databases has never before been published. We invite you to discover these resources for yourself by requesting a trial or more information at sales@alexanderstreet.com.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic NovelsThe first of its kind, this resource traces the evolution and development of a visual literary genre from the first underground comix of the 1960s to modern sequential artists such as Dan Clowes and Los Bros. Hernandez. Documenting the spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels, the collection includes 75,000 pages of original material and more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, including The Comics Journal.

Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth CircleA genre-redefining online collection of Romantic-era literature and in-copyright complementary texts, Romanticism Redefined will grow to include 120,000 pages from the Pickering & Chatto catalog and 10,000 pages from The Wordsworth Circle, appearing in electronic format for the first time. Covering the years 1800 to 1830, the collection also highlights the “second generation” of writings, many of which were previously inaccessible.

Romanticism Redefined: Pickering & Chatto and The Wordsworth Circle

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North American Theatre Online

“This continuously growing resource aims to put the world of North American theater at the user’s fingertips. . . . Overall this is an excellent site. Users should appreciate having so much information pulled together for them. . . . Highly recommended.” –CHOICE

This online collection combines more than 40,000 pages of renowned reference works, along with new data on nearly 30,000 plays, 22,000 productions, 57,000 people, 5,400 theaters, and 2,500 production companies, plus thousands of best-of-Web theatre sites. Important reference works—most published electronically here for the first time—include O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series. A wide range of theatre ephemera, including tens of thousands of images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks, and other visual materials—many of them from private collections—are particularly valuable for historical research.

Twentieth Century North American Drama

A 2004 Library Journal Best Reference

This collection contains 2,000 plays from the US and Canada from the early 1900s through to today. More than 1,300 of the works are in copyright and licensed from the authors or their estates, and 1,700 plays appear in no other Alexander Street collection. At least 550 of the works have never been published before, in any format, and are available only in this collection—including unpublished plays by major writers and Pulitzer Prize winners. Important playwrights in the collection include Sam Shepard, Horton Foote, William Saroyan, August Wilson, David Rabe, Beth Henley, George Kaufman, Neil LaBute, Doug Wright, Garson Kanin, David Mamet, Anna Deavere Smith, and John Guare, among many others.

North American Women’s Drama

“This wonderful resource gives voice to the frequently overlooked history of women’s drama. . . . Highly recommended.” –CHOICE

This online collection brings the plays of more than 300 women the attention they deserve, with the full text of 1,500 works written from colonial times to the present by American and Canadian writers, plus an extensive range of related reference and performance information. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print, and almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays. Authors in the collection include Marsha Norman, Sophie Treadwell, Rachel Crothers, Gertrude Stein, Susan Sontag, Nora Ephron, Emily Mann, Maria Irene Fornes, and many more.

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Black Drama, Second Edition: African, African American, and Diaspora

Two-time winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award!

A 2002 Library Journal Best Reference

“Essential. All users, all levels.” –CHOICE“Highly recommended.” –Library Journal“Relevant across many disciplines.” –School Library Journal“All libraries will find this resource extremely valuable.” H H H H –Charleston Advisor

This collection contains the full text of 1,450 plays by more than 200 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other regions. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, out

of print, or previously unpublished. Writers include Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Derek Wolcott, and Zora Neale Hurston. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, theatre ephemera (including playbills and production photographs), a rich performance database, and a wealth of other visual materials. James Vernon Hatch, curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor.

Asian American Drama

“Strongly recommended.” –Reference Reviews

This collection brings together more than 250 plays—50 percent of them never before published—along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. It includes works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent as well as plays by American writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry. Together, these plays offer a fascinating window on the experience of assimilation, integration, and cultural identity. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

North American Indian DramaWith more than 250 plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights, this collection contains scores of otherwise inaccessible dramatic works from the 1930s through to the modern day. The collection includes plays produced by the Native American Theatre Ensemble (NATE) and other experimental companies of the 1970s and 1980s. Native groups represented here include the Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Chippewa, Ojibway, Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, and more. Among the playwrights in the collection are Hanay Geiogamah, Diane Glancy, Bruce King, William S. Yellow Robe, Yvette Nolan, Drew Hayden Taylor, Monique Mojica, Marie Humber Clements, Tomson Highway, Terry Gomez, Daniel David Moses, Laura Shamas, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Elvira and Hortensia Colorado, Jason Begay, Joseph A. Dandurand, LeAnne Howe, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl.

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Latino Literature

“Alexander Street has focused on an area of scholarship long overdue for attention. ¡Felicitaciones! . . . . [A] jewel of a file . . . it promises to become a full treasure trove of difficult-to-find and unique material. If your library serves researchers in Latino literature, comparative literature scholars, social scientists, or creative writing students, then you should offer them access to this database. Highly recommended.” –Library Journal

This collection brings together more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Nearly one third of the collection is rare or previously

unpublished work. Although the collection includes materials from the 19th century, the vast majority of works are from the period spanning the Chicano Renaissance to the present day. Authors such as Rudolfo Anaya, Cherrie Moraga, Carlos Morton, Alurista, Virgil Suarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Ivan Acosta, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Rolando Hinojosa, Tato Laviera, Lucha Corpi, Luis Valdez, and others are included, along with many others.

Latin American Women WritersThis collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America totals more than 100,000 pages and spans works from the 17th century to the present. Literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays published here in their original language will give scholars access, for the first time, to a vast, cross-searchable, Semantically Indexed™ research tool for understanding the diversity and development of Latin America from the female perspective. Authors in this collection include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico), Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara (Colombia), Juana M. Gorriti (Argentina), Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Cuba), Delmira Agustini (Argentina), Julia Lopes Almeida (Brazil), Rachel de Queiroz (Brazil), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay). More than 25 percent of the collection is comprised of feminist works by writers such as Clorinda

Matto de Turner (Peru), Nisia Floresta and Bertha Lutz (Brazil), and Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico).

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic PeriodThis collection corrects a glaring omission in the literary history of the British Isles—and of Romanticism generally. Comprising more than 80 volumes of poetry by Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, the collection enables researchers to delve more deeply than ever into this significant, but largely underappreciated, body of work.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic PeriodThis electronic collection of more than 60 volumes of lyric poetry by Scottish women, written between 1789 and 1832, fills a gap in our knowledge of and access to a large and comprehensive body of work. Representing women from every social, economic, political, and religious stratum, the collection also showcases a wide variety of genres, from sentimental lyric verse to socially and politically committed poetry.

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Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period and Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period“are invaluable for collections supporting strong programs in Romanticism or women’s studies. . . . Highly recommended.” –Library Journal

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Black Short Fiction and Folklore: African, African American, and Diaspora

A 2004 Library Journal Best Reference“An invaluable resource. . . . Highly recommended.” –CHOICE

This comprehensive collection of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora features a great deal of material that is ephemeral, rare, or difficult to find. It contains more than 11,000 short stories and folktales dating from 1843 to the present. The collection also includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. Authors represented include: William Wells Brown, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Ralph

Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Edwidge Danticat, Chester Himes, Rita Dove, John Edgar Wideman, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Childress, Walter Mosley, and many more.

Black Women Writers: African, African American, and DiasporaFeaturing more than 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays, this collection highlights the work of African and African Diaspora women writers from three continents and twenty countries. From 18th century slave narratives to writings from the Harlem Renaissance, the works included here are often rare or difficult to access. Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ allows users to identify and compare themes geographically and over time and trace the evolution of black feminism as a movement. Writers include Phyllis Wheatley, Sonia Sanchez, Ida B. Wells, Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Barbara Ransby, Angela Davis, Margaret Walker, Olive Senior, and hundreds more.

Caribbean LiteratureContaining a vast assemblage of classic, rare, and contemporary Caribbean poetry, drama, and fiction—more than 100,000 pages—as well as author interviews, photographs, leading reference works, dictionaries, and journals in the discipline, this collection fills a void in literary and post-colonial research. The collection includes works by E. K. Brathwaite, George Lamming, Kwame Dawes, Lorna Goodison, Cyril Dabydeen, Jean Rhys, Earl Lovelace, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Guillermo Rosario, and Jose Martí, to name but a few.

South and Southeast Asian Literature: Classic and Postcolonial Writers in English, 1825 to PresentAt completion, this collection will contain more than 100,000 pages of fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials written in English by writers from South and Southeast Asia and their diasporas. Representing writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Singapore, and Fiji—either by birth or cultural identity—the collection enables scholars of literature, postcolonial studies, and history of the region to analyze these works together for the first time. Among the authors included in the collection are Meena Alexander, Tariq Ali, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Seth, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, and many more.

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The Alexander Street Literature PackageThis specially priced subscription package brings together the hundreds of thousands of pages of poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, and essays from each of the following eight Alexander Street Literature online collections and makes them accessible through a single cross-searchable interface. This literature is in-copyright, contemporary, global, diverse, and frequently unavailable from any other source. Rich in sociological and historical significance, the collections in this package deliver the literatures of place, gender, and race.

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• Black Short Fiction and Folklore (p. 5)• Black Women Writers (p. 5)• Caribbean Literature (p. 5)• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (p. 4)

• Latin American Women Writers (p. 4)• Latino Literature (p. 4)• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (p. 4)• South and Southeast Asian Literature (p. 5)

Subscribers to both the Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama packages have cross-searchable access to all of the full-text collections in both packages at http://wlid.alexanderstreet.com.

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Subscribers to both the Alexander Street Literature and Alexander Street Drama packages have cross-searchable access to all of the full-text collections in both packages at http://wlid.alexanderstreet.com.

The Alexander Street Drama PackageAlexander Street Drama contains more than 6,000 full-text plays PLUS the powerful North American Theatre Online reference collection (p. 2). The individual full-text play collections in this cross-searchable, money-saving package include:

• Asian American Drama (p. 3)• Black Drama (p. 3)• Plays from Latino Literature (p. 4) • North American Indian Drama (p. 3)

• North American Theatre Online (p. 2)• North American Women’s Drama (p. 2)• Twentieth Century North American Drama (p. 2)

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Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works CollectionThis collection delivers more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. Performed by leading actors specifically for online listening, the plays include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Optional downloads make it easy to enjoy the plays from personal handheld mobile devices.

American Film ScriptsThis cross-searchable, online collection of authorized, in-copyright screenplays is the result of arrangements with Warner Bros., Sony, RKO, MGM, and other studios and includes more than 1,000 scripts together with a biographical and bibliographical database of directors and writers—more than 100,000 pages of content in all. Incorporating scripts from the earliest silent movies to current films, this is an invaluable collection for studies in film studies, drama, and across the humanities curriculum.

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