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American Literature Asian American Authors Bibliography
American Literature Asian American Authors Bio Bibliography
American Literature Asian American Authors Bio Bibliography Dictionaries
American Literature Asian American Authors Handbooks Manuals etc.
American Literature Asian American Authors History and Criticism
American Literature Asian American Authors History and Criticism Theory, etc.
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Books pertaining to Asian American literature are usually shelved in the PS section according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Books that have REF before the call number are shelved in the Reference section on the main floor of Buley Library. Circulating books are indicated by SCSU Stacks on CONSULS. Books with call numbers A through N are on the main floor; P through Z are on the second floor.
Selected Books
Anthologies
Background/History
Asian American literature: an introduction to the writings and their social contexts
Asian/Pacific Islander American women: a historical anthology
Chinese immigrants, African Americans, and racial anxiety in the United States, 1848-82
The Chinese in America: a history from Gold Mountain to the new millenium
The Columbia documentary history of the Asian American experience
Not just victims: conversations with Cambodian community leaders in the United States
Pacific pioneers: Japanese journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-80
Racism, dissent, and Asian Americans from 1850 to the present: a documentary history
The second generation: ethnic identity among Asian Americans
Bibliographies/Biographies
Asian American autobiographers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
Asian American novelists: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
Asian American playwrights: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Asian American Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 312)
Criticism
America's Asia: racial form and American literature, 1893-1945
Articulate silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa
Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent
Asian American literature in the international context: readings on fiction, poetry and performance
The Asian Pacific American heritage: a companion to literature and the arts
Assimilating Asians: gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America
Consumption and identity in Asian American coming-of-age novels
Double agency: acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture
Imagining the nation: Asian American Literature and cultural consent
The imperialist imaginary: visions of Asia and the Pacific in American culture
Minor re/visions: Asian American literacy narratives as a rhetoric of citizenship
Multicultural American literature: comparative black, native, latino/a and Asian American fictions
New strangers in paradise: the immigrant experience and contemporary American fiction
The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives
Postcolonial theory and the United States: race, ethnicity and literature
Race and resistance: literature and politics in Asian America
Reading Asian American Literature: from necessity to extravagance
Recovered legacies: authority and identity in early Asian American literature
Transcultural reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian short story cycles
The world next door: South Asian American literature and the idea of America
Dictionaries/Handbooks/Encyclopedias
Fiction
American eyes: new Asian American short stories for young adults
Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction
Yell-oh girls!: emerging voices explore culture, identity, and growing up Asian American
A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture
Guides
The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story
Plays/Performance/Theater
Performing Asian America: race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage
Unbroken thread: an anthology of plays by Asian American women
Poems/Poetry
Breaking silence: an anthology of contemporary Asian American poets
Quiet fire: A historical anthology of Asian American poetry, 1892-1970
Women/Women Authors
Betrayal and other acts of subversion: feminism, sexual politics, Asian American women's literature
In her mother's house: the politics of Asian-American mother daughter-writing
Modeling minority women: heroines in African and Asian American fiction
Tell this silence: Asian American women writers and the politics of speech
Academic Search Premier
EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier indexes magazine and journal articles, many of which are available full text. Over 300 literary journals are indexed. It is possible to search for peer-reviewed journal articles or for those that contain the full text of the article. It is also possible to search for articles from specific journals.Asian American Drama
Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, thus providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and it is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. Asian American Drama represents the various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Along with many works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, the collection includes plays by writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry.Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.Essay and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences and the humanities.Expanded Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.Gale's Literature Resource Center
Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.GenderWatch
This is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Information on women authors and their books can be found here.Granger's World of Poetry Online
Contains poetry citations, poems in full text, scholarly commentary on poems and poets, biographical and bibliographical information and a glossary of poetic terms.Humanities International Complete
Covers journals, books and other sources in the humanities. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 journals.General OneFile
For college students. Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods. LRC combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals, and more. Some articles available in full-text.Literature Online (LION)
LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.MLA International Bibliography
This is the primary database for literary research and indexes scholarly articles in literary journals, books and dissertations. Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Check CONSULS to see if we own the publication cited.New York Times Historical Archives
Contains the full-text of New York Times from 1851-to 2001 (rolling window).Project Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.Wilson Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore, linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and book reviews.
Contains links to a list of works by Asian American authors compiled by the librarians of the Harold Washington Library Center and to the Asian Americans Writers' Workshop. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans. There are links to works by Asian American writers for young adults as well as to individual authors like Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, and Gus Lee.
Asian American Literature
A course page on Asian American Literature with several useful links to related websites including the online journals Darpan and Anagram.Asian American Literature: History, Classroom Use, Bibliography and WWW Resources
Contains an introduction to Asian American literature, the history of the genre, links to reviews of works by Amy Tan and Laurence Yep among others andbibliography of general reference sources, magazine articles, anthologies, traditional/folk literature, fiction, non-fiction, biography and movies.
Asian American Literature: A Selective Bibliography
This bibliography represents primarily fiction written by Asian American writers and is divided into two parts: pre 1950 and post 1950 literature. The first part reflects the history of Asian immigration patterns to the US and the second reflects the growth of Asian American communities.Asian American Literature: Sources for Research
This site contains refereed journals, suggested scholarly books, Asian American bookstores and publishers, Asian American Studies programs, and non-academic sites dealing with Asian American issues.Asian American Literature/Writers
This site contains an excellent bibliography which was made possible by a grant from California Arts Council and friends. The bibliography lists collections/anthologies, books about Asian American literature, books about or interviews with Asian American writers, and links to a long list of Asian American writers and their works.Asian American Writers
Contains brief biographies of noted Asian American writers and links to articles, interviews and book reviews.Filipino American Literature
This page from Emory University gives a brief description of Filipino American literature highlighting the major themes and works of fiction and poetry with links to related sites.South Asian Women Writers
This site is sponsored by SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network), a forum for and about women from Bangla Desh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The bookshelf section features new books, reviews of fiction, anthologies, poetry, non-fiction, cookbooks, authors, bookclubs, magazines, and links to bookstores.Voice of the Shuttle - Asian American Writers
Voice of the Shuttle is an excellent site for information on minority literatures. The section on Asian Pacific American literatures includes general resources in Asian American literature, resources for K-12 teachers, and links to Asian American Writers broken down by Asian American Women Writers of Color, Asian American Autobiography, authors by name and by racial/ethnic background with links to Chinese American, Filipina American, Indian American, Japanese American, and Korean American.
Afghani Americans
Bangla Deshi Americans
Cambodian Americans
Chinese Americans
Diana Chang
Iris Chang
Lan Samantha Chang
Frank Chin
Edith Maude Eaton
Winnifred Eaton
David Henry Hwang
Gish Jen
Maxine Hong Kingston
Gus Lee
Amy Ling
Aimee E. Liu
Fae Myenne Ng
Amy Tan
Elizabeth Wong
Jade Snow Wong
Nellie Wong
Shawn Wong
John Yau
Chiang Yee
Lawrence Yep
Lin Yutang
Filipino Americans
Peter Bacho
Jeannie Barroga
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Carlos Bulosan
Nick Carbo
Linda Ty-Casper
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Han Ong
Bienvenido N. Santos
Jose Garcia Villa
Indian Americans
Meena Alexander
Agha Shahid Ali
Anita Rau Badami
G.S. Sharat Chandra
Brinda Charry
Anita Desai
Kiran Desai
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indira Ganesan
Amitav Ghosh
Jhumpa Lahiri
Suketu Mehta
Ved Mehta
Rohinton Mistry
Shani Mootoo
Bharati Mukherjee
Kirin Narayan
Uma Parameswaran
Raja Rao
Arudhati Roy
Vikram Seth
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indu Sundaresan
Manil Suri
Shashi Tharoor
Sudhir Venkatesh
Japanese Americans
Philip Kan Gotanda
Kyoko Mori
Toshio Mori
David Mura
Milton Murayama
John Okada
Dwight Okita
William Hosokawa
Kazuo Ishiguro
Joy Kogawa
Yoshiko Uchida
Hisaye Yamamoto
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Wakako Yamauchi
Korean Americans
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Susan Choi
Richard E. Kim
Chang Rae Lee
Don Lee
Diana Son
Cathy Song
Mia Yun
Malaysian Americans
Pakistani Americans
Sri Lankan Americans
Vietnamese Americans
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