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Use CONSULS, the online catalog, to find books and other materials on your subject. Choose Subject from the CONSULS Main Menu screen and type your subject:
Example: American Literature Asian American Authors
Sample Subject Headings
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.
To find information on authors type the author's name (last name first). It is not necessary to type the author's full name but it is important to spell correctly.
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Example: Kingston Maxine
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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 in CONSULS. Books with call numbers A through N are on the second floor; P through Z are on the third 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
Reference Librarian
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