Selected Resources for
SPAN432—20th Century Latin American Literature
February 27,  2002
PLU Library--Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Some of these indexes are print and some electronic.   Access the electronic resources from the PLU library home page:  (http://www.plu.edu/~libr).  Some electronic resources require a username and password.  To locate articles on your topic use:

Arts & Humanities Search:  A citation index referencing 8795 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.   Requires PLU ePass username and password.

HAPI Online: Indexes articles, documents, original literary works, and other material in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Covers all types of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the U.S. from 1970 to the present.   Not available from off campus.

JSTOR is an archival database with 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, social sciences, sciences and 7 general science journals starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s and some even to the 1600s.  JSTOR provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journal content. You can retrieve specific articles, browse individual journals, or search by topic. As this is an archival service, current issues (usually the latest 3 to 5 years) are NOT available. Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.

MLA:  Modern Language Association's index to international journals and books on literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, from 1963 to present. No book reviews!  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides full text for over 1,300 arts & humanities, academic,
social sciences, general science, education and multi-cultural journals, magazines, and newspapers. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,000 titles. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.  Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Use Journals at PLUto obtain the call number of the  journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound  volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also gives you access to our full-text periodicals.

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean (ref. F1406.C36 1992)
Encyclopedia Of Latin American History And Culture (ref. F1406.E53 1996)
Encyclopedia of Latin American literature (ref. PQ7081.A1E56x 1997)
Handbook of Latin American literature (ref. PQ7081.A1H36 1987)
Hispanic Literature Criticism (ref. PQ7081.A1H573 1994)
Oxford companion to Spanish literature (ref. PQ6006.O95)
Twentieth-century poetry from Spanish America: an index to Spanish language and bilingual
anthologies (ref. PQ7082.P7S66x 1998)
Writers Of The Caribbean And Central America : A Bibliography (ref. PN849.C3F46x 1992)

INTERNET RESOURCES

Lanic (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/index.html)
Latin American Literature & Culture (http://www.academicinfo.net/latinamculture.html)
Latin American Poetry (http://www.slc.edu/~mnegroni/poetry/latinpoetry.htm)
Mexican and Latin American Literature
(http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/lboyer/modern_languages/mexican.htm)
Poesia.com (http://www.poesia.com/)
 

OTHER INTERESTING RESOURCES

Five Latin American authors speak (VIDEO PQ7081.3.F58 2000)
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU belongs to a consortium of small private colleges and universities.  This consortium includes: St. Martin's College, Northwest College, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle University, and University of Puget Sound.  You may check materials out from these libraries using your PLU ID.

You may also order articles and books from PLU's Interlibrary Loan (Most libraries won't loan reference books).  Staff at the Reference Desk will assist you with your ILL orders.
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.  My office hours for spring are:  Mondays 1-2, Tuesdays 9-10, Thursdays 1-2 .  Feel free to call for other times!

 
 
 
 
 

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