Resource Guide:
Spanish American Literature
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Latin American Literature
- Spanish literature
- Hispanic American literature (Spanish)
- Spanish American Literature
- Spanish American Literature—20th century
- Spanish American Literature—To 1800
- Spanish poetry
- Spanish American poetry
- Protest poetry, Spanish American
- Spanish fiction
- Spanish American prose literature
- Spanish American wit and humor
- Revolutionary Literature, Spanish American
- Women authors, Spanish American
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
- Cortázar, Julio
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
- Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989
- Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695
- Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973
- Valenzuela, Luisa 1938-
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna
- ClasePeriodica
- Credo Reference
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Films on Demand
- Fuente Académica
- Humanities International Complete
- JSTOR
- JURN
- Literature Resources from Gale
- MLA
- Oxford Bibliographies Online
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Reference
- Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
- Wiley Online Library
- Women’s Studies International
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Foro Hispanico: Revista Hispanica de los Paises Bajos
- Hispanic Research Journal
- Hispanofila
- Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies
- Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana
- Hispanic poetry review
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Early Spanish American Narrative | PQ 7082 .L523 2004 |
| The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo | PQ 7081 .A33 1997 |
| The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature | PQ 7081 .C144 1996 |
| Modern Latin American Literature | PQ 7081 .G2 1973 |
| Masterworks of Latin American Short Fiction | PQ 7087 .E5 M3 1996 |
| 12 Spanish American Poets | PQ 7084 .H35 |
| Oye mi son: ensayos y testimonios sobre literatura hispanoamericana | PQ 7091 .G585 2008 |
| Sor Juana | PQ 7296 .J6 Z72513 1988 |
| Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature : The Struggle to Self-Define In a Global Era Where Space, Capitalism, and Power Rule | eBook 2015 |
| Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction | eBook 2011 |
| Western Cultural Symbols in Latin American and Chicano Literature : An Historical and Semiotic Analysis | eBook 2010 |