Spanish and Latin American Studies
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture (online)
Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture (online)
Historical Dictionary of Spain (online)
Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (online)
World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia (online)
Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema (online)
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture (online)
A Companion to Latin American History (online)
A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture (online)
Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies (online)
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature (online)
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater (online)
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900-2003 (online)
Books on Spanish and Latin American studies will be found on the Library shelves at various call numbers, for example:
DP History of Spain
F1201-3799 History of Latin America
PC4001-4977 Spanish Language
PC5001-5498 Portuguese Language
PQ6001-8929 Spanish Literature
PQ9000-9999 Portuguese Literature
You can also use the Library Catalogue keyword search to find books on your topic. Some books are available online (e-books).
Oxford Spanish Dictionary (online)
Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English and English-Spanish (online)
For other Spanish-to-English dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
For other English-to-Spanish dictionaries held by the Library, see this link.
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
MLA International
Bibliography
This database lists journal articles and books on the language and literature
of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.
Linguistics and Language
Behavior Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on Spanish and Portuguese
linguistics.
Historical
Abstracts
This database lists journal articles and books on the history of the Iberian
Peninsula and Latin America from 1450 to the present.
Worldwide Political
Science Abstracts
This database lists journal articles on the politics and government of the
Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.
Dialnet
This database lists journal articles, books and theses, mostly in Spanish, on
the Hispanic world. Some of the references are available in full text.
Newspapers
Many older Spanish newspapers (up to the early 20th century) are available digitally on the website of the Hemeroteca Digital of the National Library of Spain.
Translated newspaper articles and radio broadcasts from the period 1941 to 1996 are included in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports.
From the 1990s onwards, many newspapers from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America are available online via the Factiva database.
Specialised Resources
Latin American Women
Writers (online)
A full-text collection of books by and about women writers from Central and
Southern America, plus many works on feminism in Latin America.
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