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Encyclopedias and other reference sources can provide background information, historical context, summaries and factual information around your topic. Don't forget to use bibliographies to identify additional sources.Reference Sources
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Oxford Bibliographies Online - Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography of scholarship in Latin American Studies and related topics.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online - Latino Studies This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography of scholarship in Latino Studies and related topics.
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Literature Resource Center (LRC) This link opens in a new windowFull-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical analysis of more than 100,000 world authors and works throughout history and across all literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalism). Enables you to search by literary movement (e.g., Harlem Renaissance), gender, or author ethnicity (e.g., African American).
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism This link opens in a new windowvailable in print and online, this source comprises entries on literary critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, the contributions of specific countries and historical periods, and non literary fields of inquiry shaped by literary theory and criticism. PN81 .J554 2005
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 This link opens in a new windowBy Daniel Balderston (Editor); Mike Gonzalez (Editor)
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopediasuccessfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses. -
Enciclopedia de la Literatura en MÃĐxico This link opens in a new windowThis is an excellent resource for all periods and genres of Mexican literature, provided by CONACULTA and the FundaciÃģn para las Letras Mexicanas.
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Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new windowCoverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations. The archive is made up of more than 1.3 million pages of historical material across 33 archival collections from the United States and Europe. The historical collections provide original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more. Formerly known as World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Caminhos do Romance This link opens in a new windowThis project, created and maintained by various Brazilian institutions, focuses on the history of the Brazilian novel, especially from the colonial period through the 19th century, with some discussion on its relation to the English novel of the same time periods. Includes digitized texts, a bibliography, and chronologies.
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Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
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Call Number: PQ7081 .Y68 2011The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history. The introduction provides a review of Latin American literature and theater as a whole while separate dictionary entries for each country offer insight into the history of national literatures. Entries for literary terms, movements, and genres serve to complement these commentaries, and an extensive bibliography points the way for further reading. The comprehensive view and detailed information obtained from all these elements will make this book of use to the general-interest reader, Latin American studies students, and the academic specialist. -
Latino and Latina Writers
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Call Number: REF PS153.H56 L39 2004This title in the Scribner Writers Series provides in-depth biographical and critical essays on more than 50 Latino/Latina writers. Seven thematic essays consider each writer's works in relation to music, language, feminism and other key topics. Covering well-known writers, such as Sandra Cisneros and Luis J. Rodriguez, as well as lesser known but still significant authors, such as Tino Villanueva and Achy Obegas, this set gives researchers detailed coverage of the vibrant works of literature written by Cuban, Dominican, Chicano and Puerto Rican authors. -
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
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Call Number: REF PQ6055 .F46 2002Spanish literature includes some of the world's greatest works and authors. It is also one of the most widely studied. This reference looks at the literature of Spain from the perspective of women's studies. Though the volume focuses on the literature of Spain written in Castilian, it also includes survey entries on the present state of women's literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for numerous topics related to Spanish literature, including literary periods and genres, significant characters and character types, major authors and works, and various specialized topics. Each entry discusses how the topic relates to women's studies. Entries for male authors discuss their attitudes toward women. Female writers are considered for the restrictive cultural contexts in which they wrote. Specific works are examined for their representations of female characters and their handling of women's issues. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and closes with a brief bibliography. The volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.
These online directories provide can help you find more reference materials about Latin America and the Caribbean: -
Latin America Virtual Library This link opens in a new windowThis page is edited and maintained, by Dr. Wayne A.Selcher, Elizabethtown College
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LANIC (University of Texas) This link opens in a new windowAlthough no longer updated, this directory provides links to resources of interest. It's hosted by the University of Texas.
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Iberian Language & Literature Web This link opens in a new windowA gateway site for the study of Spanish and Portuguese language and literature, hosted by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
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BibliografÃa de Escritoras EspaÃąolas This link opens in a new windowContains bibliographies, full-text of literary works, and links to online resources by and about Spanish women writers.
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CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new windowThis is a reference resource produced by the CIA with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The Factbook is available online and is partially updated every week. It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 entities including U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world.
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CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Geographic, political, and economic information in narrative and statistical form on 192 individual countries. Provides GDP, growth, money, prices, unemployment, government, debt, trade, and balance of payments. Productivity data on five key sectors. Gives country rankings for trade, population, productivity, development and technology.
