| Where to Start | Journal Articles |
| Recommended Readings | Websites |
| Reference Books | Cite Your Sources |
| Suggested Subject Headings |
- Search the Literature Online (LION) database to find background, criticism, and selected web sites for studying the theme of Japanese-American internment.
- Try the Literature Resource Center database as well for criticism. Do an Author search for Japanese-American authors, or a Title search for a specific work.
- Search the Library Catalog (see "Suggested Subject Headings" below).
- To dig deeper, search the MLA and Humanities Full-Text databases.
| Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context | -- PS153 .A84 K55 1982 |
| The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans during World War II | -- D749.8 .A6 G5 1969 |
| Justice at War | -- KF7224.5 .I76 1983 |
| Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and his Internment Writings, 1942-1945 | -- available through netLibrary |
| Contemporary Authors | -- REF PN451 .C63 |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .C59 |
| Encyclopedia of Amerian Poetry: The Twentieth-Century | -- REF PS323.5 .E522 2001 |
| Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism | -- REF PN771 .G27 |
Use these terms to perform a subject search in the library's catalog. Be sure to browse through the headings list you get to see subtopics.
- American literature -- Asian-American authors -- History and criticism
- Japanese-Americans -- Biography
- Japanese-Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Use the following library databases to find journal articles about the Internment of Japanese-Americans, as well as biographical information, essays, and other critical and reference resources.
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Humanities Full-Text
Indexes articles under the subjects of archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. -
Literature Online (LION)
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. -
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. -
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database goes back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Internment of Japanese-Americans in Concentration Camps -- The University of Daytona School of Law
Japanese Internment -- The University of Redlands, created by the chair of the History Department
Japanese Relocation during World War II -- The National Archives (Archives Library Information Center)
| Citing Sources | -- from the Duke University Libraries |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | -- RREF LB2369 .G52 2003 * |
* RREF stands for Ready Reference near the reference desk on the first floor.
Need more help finding resources? Email me at kowens@flagler.edu or visit the Library's Reference Desk.
Last Updated: September 02, 2008