IAS 420: Multicultural Autobiographies
Dr. Tom McGovern, Professor
Mr. Joe Buenker, Librarian
For additional sources of information related to Languages and Literatures, please consult Print and Electronic Sources for Literary Criticism.
Bibliographies · Finding Items Listed in a Bibliography · Identifying and Locating Additional Books and Videos · Identifying and Locating Additional Articles
Bibliographies
African Americans
Autobiography -- African American authors
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Angela Davis; Frederick Douglas; Malcolm X; Assata Shakur; Booker T. Washington
Asian American
Maxine Hong Kingston
Latinas and Latinos
Richard Rodriquez
Native American
Leslie Marmon Silko
Caucasian/White
Jewish
Spiritual Autobiographies
Strategies for Identifying and Finding Items Listed in a Bibliography
Step 2: Use the appropriate information from the bibliography to search the ASU Libraries Catalog
Step 3: Obtain the call number or link for the item. Material may be in print, microform or electronic form.
Step 4: If not owned by ASU West, see options listed under Requesting Materials.
| Type of Material | How it looks listed in a bibliography | Best Search in Catalog |
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| Book | Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia (Ed.). (1999). The Woman Warrior: A Casebook. New York: Oxford Press. |
By Title of Book
The Woman Warrior: A Casebook |
| Book Chapter | Couser, G. Thomas (1989). (En)slave(d) narrative: Early Afro-American life-writing. In G.T. Couser (Ed.) Altered egos: Authority in American autobiography (pp. 110-155). New York: Oxford University Press. | By Title of Book
Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography |
| Video | TSI Swiss Television (Producer), and Bellinelli, Matteo (Director). (1995). Leslie Marmon Silko [videotape]. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities. | By Title of Video
Leslie Marmon Silko
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| Article | Henry, J. (1983). The public, spiritual and humanistic odyssey of Malcolm X: A critical bibliographical debate. Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, 4 (1), 77-93. |
By Title of Journal
Iowa Journal of Literary Studies |
Identifying and Locating Additional Books and Videos
ASU Libraries Catalog
Catalog of materials from the ASU libraries. Use the "Limit" features (ex: West Campus only, English-language, etc.)
WorldCat
Catalog of materials held in thousands of libraries.
When using the above catalogs, search for bibliographies and critical texts of autobiographies with keywords such as...
autobiography; autobiographies
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afro americans; indians of north america; mexican americans; asian americans; american; ethnic; women
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bibliography; bibliographies - (when you want a bibliography)
Identifying and Locating Additional Articles
The following databases can be used to find critical texts of autobiographies:
Literature Resource Center
Use the Custom Search option which includes a menu for selecting Autobiography as a genre and specific ethnicities.
Access to primary and secondary resources on Literature.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full-text to approximately 1,400 of the 4,000 periodicals it indexes.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Comprehensive index containing citations and abstracts to articles.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Index to materials focused on Native Americans.
Chicano Database
Index to materials focused on Chicanos.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Multi-ethnic news database containing many full text articles.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Index to materials focused on Hispanics.
MLA International Bibliography
This literary index contains citations and abstracts to articles.