Search Terms
To find sources on a subject, we use words that capture the ideas we are looking for.
Finding useful sources takes persistence. Try a range of relevant Keywords and Subject Terms supplied by the databases to find sources about your text, author, genre, and ideas!
Keywords:
- Author: Example - "colson whitehead"
- Text: Example - "orange is the new black"
- Genre: Example - "prison memoir"
- Idea: Example - (masculinity OR manhood) AND "prison literature"
Subject Terms (a very partial list):
- Race relations in literature
- PRISONERS' writings
- PRISON Literature in America
- ARABIC Prison Literature
- PRISONS in literature
- PRISONERS as authors
- POLITICAL prisoners' writings
- literary criticism
- literary genres
- political prisoners