UNC Greensboro and the North Carolina Center for the Book have collaborated to develop their new Web-based tool, A Literary Map of North Carolina. You can use the map to browse by geographic location, author, or genre, according to the UNC Library system.
The comprehensive project includes works (fiction, biographies, histories, poetry, plays, and children’s literature) written about North Carolina, works set in North Carolina, and works by authors who were born in North Carolina, who live or have lived in North Carolina, or who have written about North Carolina.
The map tool is located at http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/01/08/visualizing-ncs-literary-landscape/
And don’t forget to visit NCM’s sister blog, Read North Carolina Novels, which allows you to search for North Carolina novels by author’s county, genre, region, series, place setting, year of publication. This site is at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncnovels/
— Original post is at http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/01/08/visualizing-ncs-literary-landscape/
3 thoughts on “New online map helps visualize North Carolina’s literary landscape”
A peculiar Web site, not at all the “comprehensive project” indicated above. Missing from our area at least appear to be Carl Sandburg, Josefina Niggli and our own Poeticus Narcissus, David Hopes.
Some of the omissions are strange: only “The Lost Colony” cited for Paul Green, and not his Pulitizer-Prizewinnng “In Abraham’s Bosom.” Missing from the Chapel Hill listing is the extremely important figure of Louis Rubin. Where is Lillian Jackson Braun? Where is Ann B. Ross? Where is Horace Kephart?
Perhaps MtnX readers could supply more of the lost and missing.
Maybe someone in WNC needs to start their own site, or ask for access to the state site in order to bring it up to snuff.
Our long-term goal is to make this site a “comprehensive project.” It takes an incredible amount of work and research to get even SOME accurate information on each author. I am working on a web-submission form right now that will allow those who search the sight to send information to me for inclusion. Until then, anyone who contacts me via email is given a form to fill out.
We are also working on funding to get another 1000 authors added to the site.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to come to me with authors for submission. This is the only way that it can become comprehensive. We’ve only just begun!