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Essay
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process and steps to take to find resources for your essay.
Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
Get overviews, summaries, key authors, debates and ideas from encyclopedias, handbooks or textbooks.
- Cambridge companion to Asian American literature
- Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history
- Greenwood encyclopedia of Asian American literature
- Handbook of gender, sex, and media
- Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
- Routledge Companion to Asian American Media
- Routledge handbook of the Chinese diaspora
- Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender studies
- Routledge handbook of East Asian popular culture
- Routledge handbook of human rights in Asia
- Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia
- Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture
- Sage encyclopedia of LGBTQ studies
- Transgender : a Reference Handbook
- Transgender encyclopedia
For more, try Background information
Find journal articles, magazines and news stories
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases below. From within the database, use the "Get@SFU" link to find it or to initiate an inter-library loan request. Limit search results to "academic / scholarly" articles.
- Women's Studies International -- Start with this database and then search other databases.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies - Useful for search for information on China, other East Asian countries, Southeast and South Asia
- Communication and Mass Media Complete - Important database for "popular culture", "body image" and "media" topics.
- Sociological Abstracts - theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
- Project Muse - a Humanities and social sciences peer-reviewed academic journals and ebooks from university presses and scholarly societies world-wide.
- MLA International Bibliography - Citations to scholarly literature in linguistics, modern languages, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, etc.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text. Useful for film and television research
Selected journals
- Asian cinema
- Journal of Asian American studies (indexed in Sociological Abstracts, Project Muse)
Find books
The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more. To limit the search results to "books", use the filter (left-hand column in search results) to "resource type" of "books."
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search
For books by author - search using "Browse by author" (change the default "title" to "author)
- Fung, Richard
- Goto, Hiromi
- La Mackerel, Kama
- Wu, Alice
- Zauner, Michelle
Note: The search results can be limited to "resource type" or "subject"
- ("asian north americ*" OR "asian americ*" OR "asian Canadian*" OR "Asian diaspora" OR "Chinese American*" OR "Japanese American*" OR "Korean American*") AND (cultur* OR identit* OR cinema OR fiction OR families OR racial*)
- "Asian American" AND (film* OR cinema OR TV OR television)
- ("asian americ*" OR "asian Canadian*") AND (literature OR fiction OR cinema OR TV OR television)
- "Asian American*" AND feminis*
- "Asian American*" AND (racial* OR discrimin* OR violen*)
- Results limited by selected subjects
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
Look at the titles in the "results list" and for those books that look relevant, click on their subject headings.
Selected books
- Queer Sinophone Cultures
- Queering Migrations Towards, from, and Beyond Asia
- Queerly Canadian : an introductory reader in sexuality studies [print]
- Racy bodies : transgressive sexuality as textual strategy in Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of mushrooms and Suzette Mayr's Moon honey [print]
- Shadow life [print]
- Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
Browse by subject
Browse by subject (change the default "Browse by title" to ""Browse by Subject" using the pull-down menu)
Books about a person or their works can be found under "Browse by Subject" and entering the "Last name, First name" of the person
- Asian American women
- Asian Americans
- Asian Americans in literature
- Asians in motion pictures
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- [Name of group] -- Fiction
- Chinese diaspora
- Diasporic Chineseness after the rise of China : communities and cultural production
- Fung, Richard
- Goto, Hiromi
- Korean Americans -- Fiction
Feminist theory website
- Feminist Theory Website - "provides research materials" - fields within feminism; national and ethnic feminisms; Individual feminists
Library guides
- Findind and evaluating resources on the web
- Avoiding plagiarism
- What is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal?
- How to write an annotated bibliography
- More Tutorials (interactive)
- Citation or reference management tools collect your journal article, book, or other document citations together in one place, and help you create properly formatted bibliographies in almost any style — in seconds.
- For help with writing essays, visit the Student Learning Commons resources on Writing for university.
- Guides for Labour Studies, Political Science