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Encyclopedias for Latin American Literature & History
Latin American Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American literature. 3 vols. Ed. Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PQ7081 .A1 C35 1996
Diccionario de Autores Latinoamericanos. César Aira. Buenos Aires, Argentina : Emecé, 2001.
Davis Reference PQ7081.3 .A35 2001
Diccionario de Literatura Latinoamericana. Susana Cella. Buenos Aires : El Ateneo, c1998.
Davis Reference PQ7081 .C4 1998
Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina. 3 vols. José Ramón Medina. [Venezuela] : Biblioteca Ayacucho : Monte ávila Editores Latinoamericana, 1995-1998.
Davis Reference PQ7081.3 .D55 1995
Encyclopedia of Latin American literature. Ed. Verity Smith. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1997.
Davis Reference PQ7081.A1 E56 1997
Handbook of Latin American Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. David William Foster. New York ; London : Garland, 1992.
Davis Reference PQ7081.A1 H36 1992
Hispanic Writers: A Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Ed. Bryan Ryan. Detroit : Gale Research, c1991.
Contemporary Authors is available electronically via Literature Resource Center.
Davis Reference PQ7081.3 .H58 1991
Latin American Writers. 3 vols. + suppl. Ed. Carlos A. Sole & Maria Isabel Abreu. New York: Scribner, 1989.
Davis Reference Row 4 PQ7081 .A1 L37 1989
Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History. 3 vols. Ed. Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
v.1 Configurations of Literary Culture; v.2 Institutional Modes and Cultural Modalities; v.3 Latin American Literary Culture.
Davis Reference PQ7081 .A1 L525 2004
Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers. First Series. Ed. William Luis. Detroit : Gale Research, 1992. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 113.) Text of the DLB is available via Literature Resource Center.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 vol. 113
Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers. Second Series. Ed. William Luis and Ann Gonzalez. Detroit : Gale Research, c1994. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 145) Text of the DLB is available via Literature Resource Center.
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 vol. 145
Latin American History & Culture
The Cambridge History of Latin America. 11 vols. Ed. Leslie Bethell. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984-
Davis Reference F1410 .C1834 1984
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. 3 vols. Ed. Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. Lopez. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Davis Reference F1406 .E515 2000
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols. Editor in chief, Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Simon & Schuster: Prentice Hall International, c1996.
Davis Reference F1406 .E53 1996
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