1. Generate a set of terms related to your topic. These will be the keywords with which you begin searching.
M. Butterfly adaptation literary criticism
David Henry Hwang production literary analysis
cultural stereotypes interpretation cultural theory
orientalism performance post-colonialism
gender stage design
transgender
2. Combine your search terms using various strategies.
Employ the AND operator to narrow your search to results that mention both keywords: cultural stereotypes AND orientalism will capture items that discuss both concepts.
Use the OR operator to broaden your search by using variants or synonyms of the same keyword: Monsieur Butterfly OR M. Butterfly
The asterisk (*) is a wildcard symbol that is used to catch variants of a word: postcolonial* captures items with keywords that begin with postcolonial-- (postcolonialism, postcolonial, etc.).
Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase: "cultural stereotype", "cultural theory"
