For your research assignment in this class, you'll need to identify, read, analyze, and respond to 3-4 scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles or book chapters that demonstrate a critical approach to your primary text.
Not sure where to start? Here are three broad strategies that you can try:
These journals contain articles related to science fiction and fantasy studies, African American literature, and more, including theory, history, and criticism.
When you find an item that seems relevant, look at its subject terms to find similar items. To do this, check the "Item Details" and simply click on one of the subject headings listed in the record for the book; the next screen will list all the books that share this subject term.
To find the library location of a book's call number, check the library map.
Try these subject search terms in Primo:
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
Like most other disciplines, English has several subject-specific databases. The MLA International Bibliography and Literature Criticism are two examples. Subject databases index scholarly materials (books, chapters in books, scholarly articles, dissertations) that will be of interest to researchers within that discipline. MLAIB is the key database for literature, linguistics, and related areas.
Depending on your primary text and your angle, you may wish to search these additional databases.
A sampling of potentially relevant books is listed below.
Afrofuturism 2.0 by 
Afrofuturism: the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture by 
Afrofuturism Rising: the literary prehistory of a movement by 
Black Utopia: the history of an idea from black nationalism to Afrofuturism by 
Bodyminds Reimagined: (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction by 
Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century by 
Queer Times, Black Futures by 
Speculative Blackness: the future of race in science fiction by If your article is not available at Collins Library, you've got another option for getting it. Use Tipasa, our interlibrary loan service.
Tipasa is linked to your library account so you'll need to log in to use it.
Once you are logged in, either go directly to Tipasa and manually enter the information, or, if you're using a database, look for a shortcut link to automatically fill out the form:
Allow at least a week for the article to come. If your article is delivered in electronic format, you'll receive an email with a link to follow as soon as it's arrived.
