Defining Asian American Literature
Spring 2008 · Professor Esther Iwanaga
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Related research guides
Quick links
| Find background information |
- Literature Resource Center
- Asian-American Almanac. Clapp Ref E 184 06 A824 1995
- Asian-American Encyclopedia. Clapp Ref E 184 06 A827 1995
- Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
- Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
- Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Clapp Ref PS153.A84 A826 2002
- Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Clapp Ref PS153.A84 A828 2003
- The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Clapp Ref PS374.S5 C57 2000
- The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945. Clapp Ref PS153.A84 C65 2006
- Dictionary of Asian-American History. Clapp Ref E 184 06 D53 1986
- Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Clapp Reference PS 21 E537 2004
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Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).
a few tips:
- To find books written by your author , do an author search.
- To find books written about your author, do a subject search.
- To find chapters in anthologies about your writer, do a keyword search.
some useful subject headings for research in this course might be:
- Asian-Americans in Literature
- American Literature -- Asian American Authors
- Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
- Ethnicity in literature
- if our copy is checked out, click on
to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days) - If NExpress doesn't have it, click on
in our catalog (2-4 days) - Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
- In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library
| Find articles |
- Literature Resource Center - Use this to find criticism, scholarly articles, reviews, and biographical information about authors
- Literature Online (LION) - Literary criticism and biographical information on authors
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus - Index for articles on film and TV in the academic and popular press, 1972 to present
- Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text - Articles on film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more, 1914 to present
- Project Muse (articles published in the last five years) / JSTOR (older articles) - multi-disciplinary database; scholarly articles
- Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary database; scholarly and popular articles
- MLA International Bibliography - for scholarship in the fields of language and literature
| Find book & film reviews |
| Critically evaluate what you find |
Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:
- Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
- Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
- Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
- Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?
Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: March 17, 2008