Hispanic American Literature Resources

Finding Books
Anthologies
Autobiographies/Biographies/Interviews
Bibliographies/Bio-bibliographies
Criticism/History
Dictionaries/Guides/Handbooks
Encyclopedias
Novels/Short Stories
Plays/Drama/Dramatists
Poets/Poetry
Women in Hispanic American Literature
Print Indexes
Databases
Web Sites

 

Finding Books using CONSULS

CONSULS is the online catalog of the four CSU libraries (Central-C, Eastern-E, Southern-S and Western-W) and the Connecticut State Library-SL. To find books and other materials on your subject, choose Subject from the CONSULS Main Menu screen and type your subject:

Example: American Literature Hispanic American Authors

Sample Subject Headings

American Literature Hispanic American authors history and criticism
Latin American fiction history and criticism
Literature and society Latin America
Hispanic Americans in literature
Hispanic American intellectual life
Hispanic American Women Authors criticism and interpretation
Mexican Americans in literature
Hispanic American Lesbians intellectual life
Lesbians writings' Spanish
Lesbians writings' Spanish American
Mexican literature
Lesbian feminist theory

 

To find books and other biographical and critical materials on a particular Hispanic American Author, choose Subject from the CONSULS Main Menu screen and then type the author's' last name first. It is not necessary to type the author's full name but it is important to spell correctly.

Example: Cisneros Sandra

A list of SUBJECT HEADINGS will appear in alphabetical order. Select the heading with the subdivision "biography" (for biographical information) or criticism (for critical analysis of the writer's works).

Example: Alvarez Julia Criticism and Interpretation

If your search does not have the subdivision you are looking for, choose the subject heading with the most entries. This is usually found in line 1 or 2.

To locate a specific book, choose Title from the Main Menu screen and type the title of the book.

Example: El Plan Infinito

You may also do a word search by selecting keyword from the CONSULS Main Menu screen:

Example: Allende literary criticism

Sample Keyword Searches

If there are too many entries, you may limit your search to items available in the SCSU library by selecting the Limit/Sort option. From the following screen, use the pull down menu next to "Where item is located" and select "SCSU". You can also limit by year of publication, language, or type of material.

Books pertaining to language and literature are shelved in the P section according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Books that have Ref before the call number are shelved in the Reference section on the main floor of Buley Library. Circulating books are indicated by SCSU Stacks on CONSULS. Books with call numbers A through N are on the main floor. P through Z are on the second floor.

Anthologies

The anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States        On Order

Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna     PQ7251.C8 1998 

Borderlands = La frontera   PS3551.N95 B6 1999 

Boricuas : influential Puerto Rican writings--an anthology    PS508.P84 B67 1995 

Bridges to Cuba = Puentes a Cuba    PS508.C83B75 1995 

A century of Cuban writers in Florida : selected prose and poetry   PS508.C83 C46 1996 

Compañeras : Latina lesbians : an anthology     PS509.L47C65 1994 

Cuento cubano del siglo XX : antología     PQ7386 .C837 2002 

Growing up Puerto Rican : an anthology     PS508.P84 G76 1997 

Herencia : the anthology of Hispanic literature of the United States   PS508.H57 A58 2001

In other words : literature by Latinas of the United States    PS508.H57 I5 1994 

Infinite divisions : an anthology of Chicana literature  PS508 M4 I54 1993 

The last generation: Prose and Poetry       PS3563.O753 L37 1993 

The Latino reader : an American literary tradition from 1542 to the present    PS508.H57 L4 1997 

Madres del verbo = Mothers of the word : early Spanish-American women writers : a bilingual anthology      PQ7087.E5 M23 1999

Mujeres de palabra    PQ7083 .M85 1994 

Paradise lost or gained? : the literature of Hispanic exile    PS508.H57 P37 1991

Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology   PR9194.5.L47 P5 1991 

Puerto Rican writers at home in the USA : an anthology    PS508.P84 P8 1991 

Short stories by Latin American women : the magic and the real    PQ7087.F5 .S46 1990 

This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color    PS509.F44T5 1983

This bridge we call home : radical visions for transformation   PS509.L47 T48 2002

Voces femeninas de Hispanoamérica : antología    PQ7083 .V6 1996 

 

Autobiographies/Biographies/Interviews

16 extraordinary Hispanic Americans     Curr Lab E184.S75 L62 1995

Antes que anochezca : autobiografía    PQ7390.A72 Z467 2001 

Biographical dictionary of Hispanic literature in the United States : the literature of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and other Hispanic writers    Ref PQ7420.2.K3 1989

Broken bars : new perspectives from Mexican women writers  PQ7133 .G37 1994 

Chicana ways : conversations with ten Chicana writers  PS153.M4 C455 2002

Chicano controversy : Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez   PS153.M4 G83 2002 

Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series -- (CAAS) -- Ref PN453. C63

Conversations with Ilan Stavans     PS153.H56 S73 2005 

Conversations with Isabel Allende    PQ8098.1.L54Z465 1999

A dream of light & shadow : portraits of Latin American women writers   PQ7081.3 .D74 1995    

Growing up Latino : memoirs and stories     PS647.H58 G76 1993 

Hispanic writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors   Ref PQ7081.3 .H58 1999 

A home in the heart : the story of Sandra Cisneros      Curr lab   PS3553.I78 Z58 2005      

Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography   F870.M5R62 1981 

Isabel Allende : life and spirits    PQ8098.1.L54 Z47513 2002

Interviews = Entrevistas / Gloria E. Anzaldúa             PS3551.N95 Z464 2000

Interviews with writers of the post-colonial world     PR9080 .J87 1992 

Las mamis : favorite Latino authors remember their mothers     E184.S75 M365 2000 

Latina self-portraits: Interviews with contemporary women writers   On order

My life with Pablo Neruda      PQ8097.N4 Z88513 2004 

Neither saints nor sinners : writing the lives of women in Spanish America  BX4225 .M94 2003

On borrowed words : a memoir of language    PQ7079.2.S78 Z47 2001 

Passion, memory, identity : twentieth-century Latin American Jewish women writers    PQ7081.A1 P37 1999

The Pura Belpré Awards : celebrating Latino authors and illustrators    Curr Lab Z1037.A2 P87 2006 

Sandra Cisneros: Latina writer and activist      On order

Something About the Author (SATA) -- Ref PN451. S6

Something About the Author Autobiography Series -- Ref PN497. S66

Something to declare    On Order

Spanish American authors : the twentieth century   Ref PQ7081.3.F57 1992

 

Bibliographies/Bio-bibliographies

The Argentine novel : an annotated bibliography     Ref Z1624.F4 L5 1997

Bibliographic guide to Chicana and Latina narrative   Z1229.M48 L46 2003

Contemporary Authors (CA) -- Ref Z1224. C6

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series (CANR) -- Ref Z1224. C58

Contemporary Latin American fiction : an annotated bibliography   Ref Z1609.F4B76 1989 

Cuban-American fiction in English : an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources       PS153.C83 .C365 2005  

Indice bibliográfico de autores cubanos (diáspora, 1959-1979) : literatura = Bibliographical index of Cuban authors (diaspora, 1959-1979) : literature   Ref Z1521 .F47 1983 

Spanish-American women writers : a bibliographical research checklist  Ref Z1609.L7 C66 1983

Spanish American women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book    Ref Z1609.L7S6 1990 

Vanguardism in Latin American literature : an annotated bibliographical guide  Ref Z1609.L7 F67 1990 

Women authors of modern Hispanic South America : a bibliography of literary criticism and interpretation     Ref Z1609.L7 C94 1989 

 

Criticism/History

After the boom : recent Latin American fiction     PQ7082.N7A35 1987

Agítese bien : a new look at the Hispanic avant-gardes    PQ6073.E94 A35 2002

Ambiguity and gender in the new novel of Brazil and Spanish America : a comparative assessment      PQ7082.N7 P37 1993 

Barrio-logos : space and place in urban Chicano literature and culture    PS153.M4 V55 2000 

Being in common : nation, subject, and community in Latin American literature and culture PQ7081 .R672 2003 

Beyond stereotypes : the critical analysis of Chicana literature   PS153.M4B49 1985

Black writers and Latin America : cross-cultural affinities     PS153.N5J38 1998

Bodies and biases : sexualities in Hispanic cultures and literatures   PQ7081.A1 B63 1996

The catastrophe of modernity : tragedy and the nation in Latin American literature    PQ7081 .D64 2004 

Charcoal & cinnamon : the politics of color in Spanish Caribbean literature   PQ7361 .W48 2000 

Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities   On order

Childhood and the nation in Latin American literature : Allende, Reinaldo Arenas, Bosch, Bryce Echenique, Cortázar, Manuel Galván, Federico Gamboa, S. Ocampo, Peri Rossi, Salurrué       PQ7082.N7 B67 2001

Coded encounters : writing, gender, and ethnicity in colonial Latin America   F1411 .C66 1994 

Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature      PQ7081 .B68 2006

Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) -- Ref PN771. C59

Convergencias hispánicas : selected proceedings and other essays on Spanish and Latin American literature, film, and linquistics     PQ6072 .C668 2001 

Critical essays: Gay and lesbian writers of color     On order

The cult of Bolivar in Latin American literature    PQ7081 .C653 2003 

Cuban writers on and off the island : contemporary narrative fiction     PQ7382 .S66 1999 

The cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean    F1741 .C85 2000  

Dance between two cultures : Latino Caribbean literature written in the United States    PS153.C27L85 1997 

The dialectics of exile : nation, time, language, and space in Hispanic literatures    PQ7081 .M3724 2004  

The ends of literature : the Latin American "boom" in the neoliberal marketplace    PQ7081 .L453 2001 

The fragmented novel in Mexico : the politics of form      PQ7203 .D5 1997

Hispanic-American writers   PS153.H56 H56 1998 

The Hispanic connection : Spanish and Spanish-American literature in the arts of the world PQ6041 .H57 2004 

Hispanic Literature Criticism    PQ7081.A1 H573 1994 v.1 & 2 and supp.

Hispanic literature of the United States : a comprehensive reference  Ref PS153.H56 K36 2003 

A history of literature in the Caribbean      PN849.C3 H57 1994

The identity of Hispanoamerica : an interpretation of colonial literature     PQ7081.P7613 1991 

Janus identities and forked tongues : two Caribbean writers in the United States    PS3556.E7243 R35 2004

Killing Spanish : literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity    PS153.H56 .S36 2004 

Latin American literature and its times      Ref PQ7081 .M625 1999 

Latin American literature and mass media      PQ7081.L359 2001 

Latin American novels of the Conquest : reinventing the New World   PQ7082.H57 L67 2002

Latin America's new historical novel    PQ7082.N7 M477 1993  

Latino and Latina writers       PS153.H56 L39 2004

Latino fiction and the modernist imagination : literature of the borderlands   PS153.H56 C49 1998

Latino literature in America      PS153.H56 K48 2003 

Literary bondage : slavery in Cuban narrative    PQ7382 .L85 1990 

Literary cultures of Latin America : a comparative history    On Order

The magic curtain: the Mexican-American border in fiction, film, and song    PS277 .T67 2002

Mestizo nations : culture, race, and conformity in Latin American literature   PQ7081 .C348 2002 

Mexican literature : a history    PQ7111 .M49 1994

The modern Latin American novel     PQ7082.N7 W548 1998 

Modernism and its margins : reinscribing cultural modernity from Spain and Latin America  PQ6073.M6 G45 1999 

Mulattas and mestizas : representing mixed identities in the Americas, 1850-2000   PS153.M56 B67 2003

Murder and masculinity : violent fictions of twentieth century Latin America     PQ7082.N7 B48 2000 

Myth and archive : a theory of Latin American narrative    PQ7082.N7 G68 1998 

New immigrant literatures in the United States : a sourcebook to our multicultural literary heritage        PS153.M56 N475 1996 

The new novel in Latin America : politics and popular culture after the boom        PQ7082.N7 S96 1995 

Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (NCLC)   Ref PN761. N5

Notable Latino writers     Ref  PS153.H56 N68 2006

Pasó por aquí : critical essays on the New Mexican literary tradition, 1542-1988    PS283.N6P37 1989

Play and the picaresque : Lazarillo de Tormes, Libro de Manuel, and Match ball     PQ6147.P5 Y69 1999 

Postmodern cross-culturalism and politicization in U.S. Latina literature : from Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez   On Order

Postmodern vernaculars : Chicana literature and postmodern rhetoric   PS153.M4 M364 2005 

Queer migrations: Sexuality, U.S. citizenship, and border crossings       On order

Reading U.S. Latina writers : remapping American literature    PS153.H56 R425 2003 

Reconstructing childhood : strategies of reading for culture and gender in the Spanish American bildungsroman     PQ7082.N7 K77 2003 

El ruido de las nueces : List Arzubide y el estridentismo mexicano   PQ7297.L5 Z75 1999

Science, technology, and Latin American narrative in the twentieth century and beyond   PQ7082.N7 H64 2000 

The Spanish American regional novel : modernity and autochthony    PQ7082.N7A58 1990 

Theoretical fables : the pedagogical dream in contemporary Latin American fiction   PQ7552.N7 B67 1993 

This rough magic : technology in Latin American fiction    PQ7082.N7 R56 1994

Tongue ties : logo-eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic literature    PS153.H56 .P47 2003

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC   Ref PN771. G27

Understanding contemporary Chicana literature   PS153.M4 M33 2000 

Unhomely rooms : foreign tongues and Spanish American literature   PQ7081 .D485 2002 

Voice-overs : translation and Latin American literature   PQ7081 .V65 2002

Voices from the fuente viva : the effect of orality in twentieth-century Spanish American narrative     PQ7082.N7 M535 2005 

Writing Paris : urban topographies of desire in contemporary Latin American fiction   PQ7082.N7S385 1999    

Written in exile : Chilean fiction from 1973-present    PQ8007.C55 L67 2001

 

Dictionaries/Guides/Handbooks

The Bloomsbury guide to women's literature   Ref PN471 .B57 1992 

The Cambridge companion to modern Latin American culture     F1408.3 .C283 2004 

The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English    Ref PR111 .S24 1999 

Chicano literature : a reference guide   PS153.M4C46 1985 

Chicano writers. First series   Ref PS 153.M4C48 1989 

Chicano writers. Second series  Ref PS153.M4C484 1992 

Chicano writers. Third series    Ref PS153.M4 C485 1999 

The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story       Ref PS374.S5 C57 2000 

The companion to Hispanic studies     CB226 .C66 2002b 

Cuban literature : a research guide   Ref Z1521.F694 1985

Dictionary of twentieth-century Cuban literature        Ref PQ7378.D53 1990

Guide to reference works for the study of the Spanish language and literature and Spanish American literature     Ref Z2695.A2W66 1987 

Handbook of Latin American literature    PQ7081.A1H36 1987  

Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature    Ref PN491.3 .M55 2006 

Modern Latin-American fiction writers. First series   Ref PQ7082.N7 M55 1992 

Modern Latin-American fiction writers. Second series    Ref PQ7082.N7 M55 1994

Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide   Ref PN452 .M88 2004 

A sourcebook for Hispanic literature and language : a selected, annotated guide to Spanish and Spanish American bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and other source materials       Ref Z2695.A2B55 

U.S. Latino literature : a critical guide for students and teachers       PS153.H56 U7 2000 

 

Encyclopedias 

Concise encyclopedia of Latin American literature    Ref PQ7081.A1 C653 2000 

The Continuum encyclopedia of American literature    Ref PS21 .E53 2003

Encyclopedia of feminist literature    Ref PN471 .W455 2004 

Encyclopedia of feminist literary theory     Ref PN98.W64 E53 1997

Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003   Ref PQ7081.A1 E558 2004 

Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture   Ref F1406.E53 1996

Encyclopedia of Latin American literature    Ref PQ7081.A1 E56 1997 

Encyclopedia of Latin American theater    Ref PQ7082.D7 E63 2003 

The feminist encyclopedia of Spanish literature     Ref PQ6055 .F46 2002 

The Greenwood encyclopedia of multiethnic American literature   Ref PS153.M56 G74 2005 

The Latino encyclopedia     Ref E184.S75 L357 1996

 

Novels/Short Stories

17 narradoras latinoamericanas     PQ7085 .A17 1996 

Adan visto por Eva : relatos de narradoras latinoamericanas   PQ7085 .A4 1995 

The Aguero sisters      PS3557.A66 A73 1997 

Aura     PQ7297.F793 A85 1994 

Bésame mucho   PS648.H57 B43 1999

Beyond the border : a new age in Latin American women's fiction    PQ7087.E5 B49 2000 

Bless me, Ultima     On Order

Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel    PS3553.I78 C37 2003b 

La casa de la laguna    PS3556.E7256 H6818 1997 

The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant child    PS3560.I55 C57 1997 

Cubana : contemporary fiction by Cuban women      PQ7386 .C835 1998 

Daughter of fortune : a novel  PQ8098.1.L54H5513 1999 

Eva Luna    PQ8098.1.L54 E813 1988 

The house of the spirits    PQ8098.1.L54 C313 2005 

The house on Mango Street   PS3553.I78 H6 1991 

How the Garcia girls lost their accents       PS3551.L845 H66 1991 

How to be a Chicana role model     PS3569.E733 H69 2000 

Iguana dreams : new Latino fiction      PS647.H58 I38 1992

In the time of the butterflies     PS3551.L84515 1994 

The Jewish gauchos of the pampas    PQ7797 .G4 G3813 1998

The Latin American short story : a critical history    PQ7082.S5L35 1982

Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies     PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1994 

Loving Che      PS3563.E514 L68 2003 

Masterworks of Latin American short fiction : eight novellas     PQ7087.E5M3 1996b

Memory mambo : a novel    PS3565.B34 M4 1996 

México mutilado : la raza maldita     PQ7298.23.A7135 M38 2004 

Mirrors beneath the earth: Short fiction by Chicano writers      On order

The Mixquiahuala letters   PS3553.A8135 M59 1992 

Mother tongue      PS3563.A7333337 M6 1997 

The moths and other stories    PS3572.I63M6 1995 

My wicked, wicked ways    PS3553.I78M93 1994

Nuevos narradores cubanos      PQ7386 .N84 2000

Other fires : short fiction by Latin American women    PQ7085.O73 1986 

Paula    PQ8098.1.L54 Z47 1995 

El plan infinito     PQ8098.1.L54 P57 1995

Puppet : a Chicano novella       PQ7079.2.C69 P8613 2000 

Quincas Borba    PQ9697.M18 Q513 1998 

Rainy days: Short stories by contemporary Spanish women writers     On order

Remaking a lost harmony : stories from the Hispanic Caribbean   PQ7386 .R46 1995

Short fiction by Spanish-American women    PQ7085.S475 1998

So far from God : a novel    PS3553.A8135 S65 1994 

Their dogs came with them : a novel    On Order

A través de los ojos de ella    On Order

Under the feet of Jesus    PS3572 I63 U53 1995 

The underdogs, a novel of the Mexican Revolution    PQ7297.A9L6 1963 

Urban voices : contemporary short stories from Brazil    PQ9676 .U73 1999 

Vecindarios excéntricos   PS3556.E7256 E2718 1999 

We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? : stories  On Order

What night brings : a novel       PS3620.R855 W48 2003 

Woman hollering creek and other stories    PS3553.I78W66 1992 

Women's fiction from Latin America : selections from twelve contemporary authors   PQ7087.E5 W66 1988

 

Plays/Drama/Dramatists

Anna in the tropics    PS3603.R895 A83 2003 

Chicanas/Latinas in American theatre : a history of performance   PN2270.H57 R36 2000 

Chicano drama : performance, society, and myth   PS153.M4 H84 2000 

The color of theater : race, culture, and contemporary performance   PN2270.H57 C65 2002

Cuban American theater    PS628.C82C83 1991

Cuban theater in the United States : a critical anthology    PS628.C82 C834 1992

The drama of gender : feminist theater by women of the Americas   PQ7082.D7 F65 2000 

Family and identity in contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican drama   PQ7381 .S74 2004 

Heroes and saints and other plays   On order

A history of Hispanic theatre in the United States : origins to 1940     PN2270.H57 K36 1990 

Latin American dramatists. First series    Ref PQ7082.D7 L373 2005  

Latin American play index     Ref Z1609.D7H63 1983

Latin American women dramatists : theater, texts, and theories   PQ7082.D7L38 1998 

Latina performance : traversing the stage   PN2270.M48 A77 1999 

Mexican American theatre : then and now    PN2270.M48M4 1983 

On new ground : contemporary Hispanic-American plays    PS628.H57O5 1987 

The pain of the macho and other plays   PS3564.A525 P3 1997

Selected Latin American one-act plays    PQ7087.E5C6 1973  

The state of Latino theater in the United States : hybridity, transculturation, and identity    PN2270.H57 S73 2002 

Taking it to the streets : the social protest theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka    PN3307.U6 E4 1997 

The theatre of García Lorca : text, performance, psychoanalysis    PQ6613.A763 Z88532 1998

Watsonville : some place not here ; Circle in the dirt : el pueblo de East Palo Alto    PS3563.O753 W37 2002 

 

Poets/Poetry

Al borde de mi fuego : poética y poesía hispanoamericana de los sesenta   On Order

Chicano poetics : heterotexts and hybridities      PS153.M4A77 1997

El Coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry   PS508.H57 C67 1997 

Corrosive signs : essays on experimental poetry (visual, concrete, alternative)  PQ7082.P7 S5413 1990 

Daughters of the fifth sun : a collection of Latina fiction and poetry   PS647.H58 D38 1995

The dissonant legacy of modernismo : Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the voices of modern Spanish American poetry     PQ7082.P7 K57 1989 

Hispanic feminist poems from the Middle Ages to the present : a bilingual anthology   PQ6267.E5F454 1986 

Hoffman's Index to poetry : European and Latin American poetry in anthologies  Ref PN1022.H627 1985 

José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows     PQ7298.26.A25 Z64 2001 

Latin American poetry : origins and presence     PQ7082.P7B76 

Loose woman : poems   PS3553.I78 L66 1994

A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems   PS3555.S53 M39 2000 

Medusario : muestra de poesiá latinoamericana   PQ7084 .M39 1996  

Movements in Chicano poetry : against myths, against margins    PS153.M4 P47 1995 

My father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973-1988    PS3553.A8135 M9 2004 

Norte y sur de la poesía iberoamericana : Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, España, México, Venezuela    PQ7084 .N57 1997 

Paper dance : 55 Latino poets    PS591.H58 P36 1995 

Poemas y narraciones sobre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968   On Order

La Poesía experimental latinoamericana : (1950-2000)    PQ7082.P7 P64 2000 

La poesía nueva en el mundo hispánico : los últimos años   PQ7082.P7 P665 1994 

Poesía iberoamericana contemporańea    PQ7082.P7 X54 1995

Poética y poesía de Pablo Neruda    PQ8097.N4Z53 

Poets of contemporary Latin America : history and the inner life    PQ7082.P7 R69 2000 

Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States   Curr Lab PS591.H58 R43 2005

The routes of modernity : Spanish American poetry from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century     PQ7082.P7 B87 2002 

Spanish American poetry at the end of the twentieth century : textual disruptions    PQ7082.P7 K84 2004 

These are not sweet girls : Latin American women poets     PQ7087.E5 T43 1994 

Triple crown : Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American poetry   PS591.H58 T75 1987 

Twentieth-century Latin American poetry : a bilingual anthology   PQ7087.E5 T94 1996 

The woman I kept to myself : poems     PS3551.L845 W66 2004 

Woman who has sprouted wings : poems by contemporary Latin American women poets    PQ7087.E5W65 1988 

Writing rumba : the Afrocubanista movement in poetry    PQ7380 .A74 2006 

 

Women in Hispanic American Literature

Allegories of transgression and transformation : experimental fiction by women writing under dictatorship      PQ7082.N7 T46 1996

Beyond the border : a new age in Latin American women's fiction   PQ7087.E5 B49 2000 

Border-Line personalities: A new generation of Latinas dish on sex, sass and cultural shifting     On order

Chicana feminisms : a critical reader    HQ1421.C492 2003 

Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about   HQ75.6.U5C53 1991 

Chicanas and Latin American women writers exploring the realm of the kitchen as a self-empowering site  PQ7081 .C43 2001

Contemporary Mexican-American women novelists : toward a feminist identity    PS153.M4 G66 1996 

Contemporary Mexican women writers : five voices    PQ7133 .D4 1996

Daughters of the diaspora: Afra-Hispanic writers    On order

Easy women : sex and gender in modern Mexican fiction    PQ7207.W6 C37 1998

Entre mundos/among worlds : new perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa     On Order

Explorations in contemporary feminist literature : the battle against oppression for writers of color, lesbian and transgender communities    PS228.F45 P47 2002  

Feminism on the border : Chicana gender politics and literature   PS374.M4837 S25 2000 

Feminist readings on Spanish and Latin-American literature   PQ6048.W6 F46 1991 

Home girls : Chicana literary voices    PS153.M4 Q56 1996 

How and why I write : redefining Hispanic women's writing and experience   On Order

In the feminine mode: Essays on Hispanic women writers    On order

Isabel Allende     PQ8098.1.L54 Z72 2002 

Isabel Allende : a critical companion    PQ8098.1.L54 Z66 2003 

Latin American women writers and horrific realism: A bio-criticial sourcebook     On order

Latin American writers on gay and lesbian themes       On order

Latina lesbian writers and artists   PS153.L46 L36 2003 

The lesbian postmodern   PS153.L46L45 1994 

Lesbian voices from Latin America: Breaking ground      On order

The new lesbian studies : into the twenty-first century  HQ75.15.L47 1996   

Notable Hispanic American women  Ref E184.S75 N68 1993 

Notable Hispanic American women : Book II  Ref  E184.S75 N68 1998 

Other sisterhoods : literary theory and U.S. women of color   PS153.M56 O85 1998

(Out)classed women : contemporary Chicana writers on inequitable gendered power relations   PS153.M4 K34 2000 

Passion, memory, identity : twentieth-century Latin American Jewish women writers  PQ7081.A1 P37 1999 

Performing women and modern literary culture in Latin America : intervening acts    PQ7081.5 .U67 2006 

A place in the sun? : women writers in Twentieth-century Cuba    PQ7378 .D38 1997 

Plotting women : gender and representation in Mexico    PQ7133.F73 1991 

A reader in Latina feminist theology : religion and justice   BT83.55 R39 2002 

Reading the feminine voice in Latin American women's fiction : from Teresa de la Parra to Elena Poniatowska and Luisa Valenzuela      PQ7082.N7 M375 2002 

Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American literature      On order

Reinventing identities : the gendered self in discourse  P120.S48 R47 1999 

Remembering maternal bodies : melancholy in Latina and Latin American women's writing  On Order

Sexual textualities : essays on queer/ing Latin American writing         PQ7081 .F635 1997

The sexual woman in Latin American literature     PQ7082.N7 M354 2001 

The shattered mirror : representations of women in Mexican literature   PQ7133 .V35 1998 

That strange territory : the representation of childhood in texts of three Latin American women writers         On Order

Tortilleras : Hispanic and U.S. Latina lesbian expression      On Order

Unveiling the body in Hispanic women's literature : from 19th Century Spain to 21st Century United States             PQ7081.5 .U68 2006

With her machete in her hand : reading Chicana lesbians     On Order

Woman as witness : essays on testimonial literature by Latin American women    On Order

Women in Hispanic literature : icons and fallen idols      PQ6048.W6W65 1983

Women writers in twentieth century Spain and Latin America       On order

Women writers of Latin America : intimate histories    PQ7081.G3613 1991 

Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean   HN110.5.A8 W66 2003 

Women singing in the snow : a cultural analysis of Chicana literature  PS153.M4 R43 1995 

 

Print Indexes

Indexes provide bibliographic citations to articles in books, magazines, journals, and newspapers. A bibliographic citation consists of author, title of article, title of periodical, volume, page and date. Once you get the citation, check CONSULS to see if we have the publication that is cited in the index.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature --Ref Z2011.M69
This is the English counterpart of the MLA. It identifies books, pamphlets and periodical articles that contain literary information. Also available online via LION.

Biography Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
Indexes biographical material in books and journals. Includes references to obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs and bibliographies.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index -- Ref Z5305.U5 B87
Includes biographical sketches that have been published in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Good place to start if nothing other than the person's name is known.

Essay and General Literature Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
This is an index to chapters in books and essays in collections.

Hoffman's Index to poetry : European and Latin American poetry in anthologies  Ref PN1022.H627 1985 

Humanities Index -- Index Section, Main Floor
Index articles that appear in English language journals. Includes language, literature and literary criticism. Entries are by author and subject.

Latin American play index     Ref Z1609.D7H63 1983

 

Databases

The following databases contain a wealth of information on literary figures and their works:

NoveList

NoveList is a reader's advisory database for readers of all ages. It features over 147,000 titles, 100,000 searchable reviews, book discussion guides, annotated thematic bibliographies, award lists, genre and theme-based lists, book talks, and customized classroom content for students and teachers.

Web Sites

Chicano Literature
http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/lit-chic.htm

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

(See Latin American Literature)

Latina Lesbian and Bisexual Bibliography
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Earenal/lesbo.html

Las Culturas.com
http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libAuthors.htm

Latin American Literature - Google Directory
http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Latin_American/

Latin American Collection from Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/latinamerica/reference_lit.html

Literature in Latin America - LANIC
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/literature/

Making Face, Making Soul.. A Chicana Feminist Website
http://www.chicanas.com/

Open Directory Project: Latin American Literature
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Latin_American/

Suggested Readings in Chicana Literature
http://chicanas.com/chicfiction.html

Voces Americanas American Voices
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/vocesamericanas/index.html

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Literatures
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2746

Voices From the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/byAxes.html#Chicana-Latina

Women in Latin American Literature
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/latinam/mujer.html

 

  Winnie Shyam
   Reference Librarian