Zora Neale Hurston

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    The following links are purchased databases:

    http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/start.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=mnkspps (Database:  Gale Group Discovering Collection.  Type chinese culture or chinese history, etc. in search bar.  Click “Search.”  Look at list in left column for more ideas if you need them.

    http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=stpaulps (Database: Gale Virtual Reference Library.  Type chinese culture or chinese history, etc. in search bar. 

    African American Experience:
    Trial database. Expires 12/31/2011. Password & Username: studentpass22.

    EBSCOhostLinks to 7 EBSCO websites:  EBSCOhost Web, Business Searching Interface, Student Research Center – High School and Middle School, Consumer Health Complete, Searchasaurus – Elementary School, Kids Search – Middle & Elementary School, Science Reference Center and Points of View.

    EBSCOhost Web:   An array of databases that includes Academic Search Premier, Alt HealthWatch, Business Source Premier, Consumer Health Complete, EBSCO MegaFILE, ERIC, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Health Source – Consumer Edition, Health Source – Nursing/Academic Edition, Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts, MAS Ultra – School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection and Regional Business News.

    Saint Paul Public Library: Literary Research:  (You must have a public library card & pin to use this. Select the "Literary Criticism" box only.) Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, writers, and criticism of their works.

    The following websites are not purchased databases:

    Zore Neale Hurston: Critical Reviews: http:// http://chdr.cah.ucf.edu/hurstonarchive/?p=contemporary-reviews

    Richard Wright's 1937 review of "Their Eyes Were Watching God"http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam358/wrightrev.html

    E Book:  "Their Eyes Were Watching God": Afterword begins on p. 229. Read it!

    Book: Available at Saint Paul Public Library (Central): Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.