This is intended to serve as a quick list of resources for doing research on Latin American history, literature, and culture. Please consult additional relevant sections of this guide and/or other research guides. For example, if you're doing research on Latin American film, you may also wish to consult the Film research guide. If you're doing research on Latin American political movements, you may also wish to consult the Political Science research guide, and so on.
The library has a number of reference resources, mostly online, in the area of Latin American literature and culture. These are just a few select titles. For additional information about possible reference sources, see the "Reference Sources" section of this research guide.
Print:
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean, Location: Reference, Call number: F1406 .C36 1992
Encyclopedia of Latin American Theatre, Location: Reference, Call number: PQ7082 .D7 E63 2003
Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, Location: Reference, Call number: F1410. E56 2002
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art, Location: Reference, Call number: N6502 .E53 2000
Online:
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America
You can use OneSearch to search for books & ebooks in the Library's collections and order books from other CUNY schools.
You can also use OneSearch (via the main searchbox on the Library's homepage) to look for articles on any topic within the larger field of Latin American literature and culture, but here is a select list of more specialized article databases. Some are multi-disciplinary (JSTOR, Project Muse) and some are subject-specific (MLA International Bibliography). Library databases (and other e-resources) can be accessed from off-campus.
Good for all topics, this comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database provides access to almost 9,000 full-text periodicals and peer-reviewed journals.
HAPI provides authoritative information on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the U.S. It includes bibliographic citations for articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and more from over 500 key social science and humanities journals. HAPI offers current and in-depth coverage from 1970 to the present.
Historical Abstracts indexes periodical literature in history and related social sciences, covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. It includes topics like world history, military history, women's history, and the history of education.
The authoritative resource in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought, providing access to more than 1,450 full-text journals dating back to 1907.
Unlock a treasure trove of knowledge with JSTOR! Dive into over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources across 75 disciplines.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) indexes international literature in linguistics and language sciences, covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It includes abstracts and citations from over 1,500 journals, as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Literature Resource Center provides access to articles, biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors. It includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text poems, short stories, and book reviews for fiction and non-fiction, covering children's, young adult, and adult works.
Provides access to more than 2 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.
Includes articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.