Warren Hunting Smith Library: Spanish and Hispanic Studies: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | SPANISH & HISPANIC STUDIES

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for Spanish and Hispanic Studies:

poetry AND "Pablo Neruda"
"Eduardo Galeano" AND "Open Veins of Latin America"
(fantasy OR "fairy tale") AND "Silvina Ocampo"

Scholarly Articles

Humanities Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text access to scholarly articles in the humanities discipline.
MLA Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles on literary criticism, languages, linguistics, film, and folklore.

HLAS online (handbook of Latin American studies)
The 'HLAS (Handbook of Latin American studies) online' is an online version of an annotated bibliography of resources on Latin America.

Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text articles in interdisciplinary subjects such as literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, political science, and gender studies.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Arts, humanities, and social sciences full-text scholarly journal archives on the ProQuest platform.

Spanish Language Texts and Literary Works

Biblioteca digital Intratext : catálogo por lengua : español
Intratext is a full-text online library containing resources in more than 40 languages. It includes a section on Spanish literature which offers a vast number of electronic versions of texts by authors from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Biblioteca universidad complutense de Madrid : colección digital complutens
The "Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid" website publishes full-text digital editions of ancient books held in the library; theses; and full-text journals published by the University of Madrid, Spain. All texts can be browsed or searched by keyword.
Biblioteca virtual Miguel de Cervantes
The Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library is the world's biggest digital library of Spanish and Latin American texts. The primary aim of the project is the digitisation, cataloguing and placing online of 30,000 works in Spanish. Works and authors are accessible via browseable catalogues (in alphabetical order) and a search engine (by title; author; genre and period).
Bibliotheca Augustana : bibliotheca Hispanica
The Bibliotheca Augustana is a digital archive by the University of Applied Sciences of Augsburg. It has a Spanish section containing digital versions of literary texts in this language from the 11th to the 20th century. Materials are grouped chronologically by centuries and authors.
Elaleph
Large collection of 19th century literary works, including Spanish translations of works originally in other languages.
Literature in Latin America (LANIC)
Literature in Latin America, a subsection of the popular and indepth Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) deserves highlighting for its extensive list of resources concerning every aspect of literature in South America. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, LANIC provides a list of links to specific literature websites arranged by country; newsgroups; mailing lists; journals; literature awards and regional resources

Ebooks

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of ebooks. Most (not all) are unlimited in usage.

Hathitrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository providing long-term preservation and access for public domain and in copyright content from research libraries worldwide. Hathi offers over 10 million volumes with 33% available full-text.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.
Oxford University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Full text ebooks from university press publishers.
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
This collection contains a handful of ebooks related to Spanish and Hispanic Studies, including literature, the Spanish Civil War, and the Conquistadors.

In Video

Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window
Original language documentaries about such issues as cultural identity, political history, and human rights (a subset of AVON).
World Languages in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

Very Short Introductions

Colonial Latin American Literature: a Very Short Introduction by Rolena Adorno
ISBN: 9780199755028
Publication Date: 2011-11-04
Modern Latin American Literature: a Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
ISBN: 9780199754915
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Spanish Literature: a Very Short Introduction by Jo Labanyi
ISBN: 9780199208050
Publication Date: 2010-09-25

Spanish and Hispanic Studies