Spanish 345: Contemporary Latin America: The Caribbean and the Southern Cone

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L.C. Call Numbers

This Library of Congress classification system holds true for any library in the world using the LC system. For example, Spanish language dictionaries will be classed between PC4001-PC4977; Spanish literature will be in the call number range PQ6001-PQ8929, with literature of Spanish America within that, PQ7081-PQ8560.

Map of Davis Reference

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Call No. Locations in Davis

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How Do I? Cite Sources? Conduct a Literature Review, etc.?

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Books 

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Catalog Search Tips

Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.

Keyword Search: latin american literature encyclopedias

Search by LC Subject Heading: Latin American literature--Encyclopedias

Keyword Search: identity latin america

Search by LC Subject Heading: Identity (psychology)--Latin America

Keyword Search: argentina folk art

Search by LC Subject Heading:Decorative arts--Argentina

Search for books By a literary author as an Author search; search for books About a literary author as a Subject search.

Author: Arenas, Reinaldo

Subject: Arenas, Reinaldo

Other Potentially Useful LC Subject Headings:

Popular music--Caribbean Area--History and criticism

Popular culture--Uruguay

Cuba--Social conditions--1959-

Paraguay--Politics and government

Databases and E-Journals 

Academic Search Complete
Covers popular and scholarly journal articles with many full-text articles.

ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
Provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded(TM), Social Sciences Citation Index(R), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index(R).

JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.

Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Literature Resource Center
LRC contains the text of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected critical excerpts or full text articles from various sets of literary criticism. It is possible in LRC to search for authors individually or to search for "Authors by Type," limiting by period, movement, nationality, etc. The Dictionary of Literary Biography provides bio-critical articles on authors. The ongoing print version of the DLB (Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978 - To Date) provides excellent illustrative material not available in the electronic version

MLA International Bibliography
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore and cultural studies.

Women's Studies International
An interdisciplinary database covering women's issues worldwide.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Not limited to just literary journals, HAPI indexes a variety of subject areas. Indexing from 1970 - present.

SUR
Sur,one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century, was founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979).

More Article Databases |  How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text?  | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?

Film Finder 

Film Finder
Search for films at the Media Resource Center (basement of Undergraduate Library) by country, title, release year, director, description, or genre.

The Institute for the Study of the Americas Film Collection
The Institute for the Study of the Americas houses a collection of videos/DVDs and resource materials.

News Articles 

Latin American Newstand
Latin American Newsstand provides full-text content in Spanish, Portuguese, and English from 37 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

Reference Sources

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature [electronic resource]

Encyclopedia of Literary Critics and Criticism

Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures

Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature

Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World

Other Resources

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
Containing over 12,000 unique URLs, LANIC is one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet. Maintained at the University of Texas at Austin.