Francophone Literature 

The links on this page are limited to sites which provide scholarly information about francophone literature or publishing, or which facilitate research in francophone studies. General interest sites, general cultural sites, as well as news, history, travel, music, health, language-learning etc. sites have been excluded. Also excluded are biographical or bibliographical lists which do not attempt to be comprehensive or scholarly.

Sites with Wide Coverage (Africa, Maghreb, Caribbean, Diaspora, etc.)

• African and Caribbean Literature in French: Guide to Research and Documentation 
  Author: Mohamed Mekkawi, Howard University.
  Publication date: February 1989.
  URL:http://www.howard.edu/library/Assist/Guides/French_african_Lit.htm
  
  An extensive bibliography of sources for the study of African and Caribbean Francophone literature. Also includes: lists of Research Organizations and Associations in North America, Africa, and Europe; publishers; literary prizes.
• CRL's Foreign Newspapers database 
  Author / Publisher: Center for Research Libraries.
  URL: http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=27
  
  The Center for Research Libraries has provided this searchable database for users to determine which foreign newspapers they hold. Bobst Library is a member of CRL and newspapers can be borrowed by eligable patrons through Interlibrary Loan.
• Literature & Culture of Francophone Africa & The Diaspora / Littérature et Culture de l'Afrique Francophone et de la Diaspora 
  Author / Publisher: Rockefeller Library, Brown University.
  Publication date: Created, 2001.
  URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/francophone/ 
  
  This bilingual site provides annotated descriptions of web sites dedicated to literature, theater, music, dance, the visual arts & cinema, and sites focusing on the sociocultural context in which such artistic creation occurs. Also featured: links to African/Africana studies programs & resources around the world. Also includes audio clips, bibliographies, lyrics, photographs and scholarly articles.

• African Studies and the Diaspora 
  Publisher: African Studies at U. Penn. 
  URL:http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_afdis.html
  
  Lists resources for African studies and the Diaspora.
• African Studies Programs 
  Publisher: African Studies at U. Penn. 
  URL:http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_afstd.html
  
  Lists African studies programs worldwide.
• African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies 
  Publisher: Center for African Studies, University of Florida. 
  ISSN 1093-2658 
  URL: http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/ 
  
  ASQ is an interdisciplinary, fully refereed, online journal dedicated to publishing the finest scholarship relating to African continent.
• Electronic Journal Of Africana Bibliography 
  Author: John Bruce Howell, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries. 
  URL: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ejab/ 
  
  EJAB is a refereed online journal of bibliographies on any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the D iaspora. Includes bibliographical information on library collections / archives, periodicals, and medical/health periodicals and books on Africa. Library / archive information is arranged by country.
• Femmes Ecrivains et littérature africaine francophone. 
  Editor: jvolet@cyllene.uwa.edu.au, Department of French Studies, School of European Languages. The University of Western Australia. 
  URL: http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/FEMEChome.html 
  
  Offers author lists and some biographies, bibliographies, interviews, etc.
• Guide to the Africana Collection at the University of George A. Smathers Libraries 
  Author: By Daniel Reboussin (Africana Specialist), University of Florida. 
  URL: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/ 
  
  This guide describes: the Africana collections at the U. of Florida, important sub-collections, special collections, institutional affiliations, etc.
• Northwestern University Library, The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies 
  Author: John Bruce Howell, International Studies Bibliographer, University of Iowa Libraries. 
  URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/ 
  
  Established in 1954, the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University is the largest separate Africana collection in existence. This site gives an overview of its collection.

• Le Monde du Livre au Maroc 
  Author: Ambassade de France au Maroc, Service Culturel, Scientifique et de Coopération
  URL: http://www.ambafrance-ma.org/archives/ilparait/
  
  This site offers lists of: new books of all sorts (including literature), maroccan publishers, maroccan booksellers. Full text of recent issues of the journal Il Parait: Revue de l'association marocaine des professionnels du livre (AMPL). A lso includes the full text of essays on the book in morocco.
• Littératures du Maghreb (Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie)
  Author: Charles Bonn & Coordination internationale des chercheurs sur les littératures du Maghreb
  URL: http://www.limag.com/
  
  Includes information in the following categories: L'actualité littéraire maghrébine, bibliographies, documents en texte intégral, etc.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Caribbean

• Franco-Monde (franco-m) 
  Publisher:Department of Languages and Literatures. Lehman College, CUNY.
  URL:http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/francomonde.html
  
  The goal of this list is "de faciliter les échanges d'idées et de stimuler la discussion entre personnes travaillant activement dans les domaines multidisciplinaires francophones (africaines, caribéennes, transnationales et cetera), principalement li ttéraire, mais également des spécialistes en d'autres études francophones artistiques, sociologiques..."
• POSTCOLONIAL discussion group 
  Contact Address: spoons@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
  Subscription Address: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu
  
  Forum for discussion and experimentation rooted in postcolonial literature, film and theory.