(See also the Spanish Language and Literature Web Guide)

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Literary Guides

Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature
REF PQ6006 .O95 (at the Fenwick reference desk)
Good point of departure for short entries on authors, literary movements and themes and individual works in Spanish and Latin American literature. Most useful for its listings of key collections, translations and critical works.

Modern Latin American Literature
REF PQ7081.F6 M6
A compilation of international critical commentary, "presenting twentieth-century Latin American writers through the eyes of leading critics in their own countries and abroad, with particular stress on their reception in the United States." The core list includes 137 writers and selections from commentaries are from books on individual authors or books dealing with themes of several writers, literary histories, encyclopedias, academic periodicals, literary reviews and book reviews.

A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language
REF PC4071 .B64 1995
This volume guides you to bibliographies covering Spanish and Latin American literature. It provides country-specific information (annotated citations to guides that focus on the literature of Spain, Mexico, etc.) and an author index. Contains information on the history of literature, and has a section on linguistics. There are sections on Spain and U.S. Hispanics (country-by-country). Chapter 1 contains a selected list of theoretical literary works that should offer alternative perspectives.

Handbook of Latin American Literature
REF PQ7081.A1 H36 1987
A good one-volume guide to literature in Latin America. More than two dozen scholars contributed to this volume. Each chapter focuses on the literature of a specific country. Covers all of Latin America and all of the Spanish Caribbean. Foster's introduction provides general sources for further research. This edition also includes three new sections:paraliterature, film, and Latino writing in the U.S. It is worthwhile to check the on-line catalog for other works edited/created by David W. Foster.

Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
REF PQ7081.A1 C35 1996
This is a wonderful new comprehensive encyclopedia covering the literature of both Latin America and Brazil. Organization is chronological rather than thematic and spans from pre-Columbian writing to the present. 40 specialists who include previously neglected areas contributed to the work. Topics are varied, and annotated bibliographies are included.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
REF PQ7081.A1 E56 2000
Entries are devoted to writers, works, and topics relating to the literature of Latin America, including survey essays on each country. This very recent source will be important for those new to the field. Like the Cambridge History above, this work purports to fill gaps left by other reference works, such as treatment of Ecuador and Bolivia. Also new trends such as Hispanic writers in the U.S., and the literature of Francophile Caribbean and women writers are included.

Latin American Writers
REF PQ7081.A1 L37 1989
This set of volumes provides biographies of major authors. It is arranged in chronological order rather than alphabetically. Volume 1 covers the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century, while the remaining volumes deal with authors from about 1870 onward. Features major authors only. Gives biographical histories, cultural contexts of lives and writings, summaries of work, assessments of significance in Spanish-American literature. Not comprehensive, but good on what it covers.

Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
REF PN849.U43 E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Postmodernism
B831.2 .E63 2002eb (Electronic book available to GMU students, faculty and staff)
Covers academic disciplines, critical terms and central figures relating to postmodern studies. Lists of further readings accompany each entry.

The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader
HN110.5.Z9 M2643 2001

Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
JV51 .P67 2000
A five-volume set of reprinted articles and chapters on a wide range of postcolonial studies. Includes sections of articles on Manifestos, National, Third World and Postcolonial Identities, Colonial Discourse Analysis, Feminisms and Gender Analysis, Internal Colonialisms and Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Theory and the Disciplines, among others.

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Websites

Center for Amazonian Literature and Culture

CubaLiteraria, publicaciones cubanas en la red

Diccionario de autoras y autores de El Salvador

Dictionary of Writers in Mexico

Ibero-American Electronic Text Series

InterNauta Poesía

Internetaleph

Istmo: revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos

Links a recursos literarios

Literatura Argentina Contemporanea

La Maga

Mundo Latino - Rincón Literario

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project

Spanish Prosody

Resources for Spanish Language and Literature

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