Latin American Humanities Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for Humanities of Latin America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The term Latin America is also used to include Puerto Rico, the French West Indies, and other islands of the West Indies. Occasionally the term is used to include Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname.

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library Latin American Humanities holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.

Internet Links

Suggested Databases for Periodical Articles

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists which are linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & availability for each.

• Music - Latin America - History and criticism
• Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 (Author search)
• Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 (Subject Search)
• Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 - Translations into English
• Painters - Mexico - Biography
• Popular instrumental music - Latin America
• Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957 - Exhibitions
• Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- (Author search)
• Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- (Subject Search)
• Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- - Criticism and interpretation
• Women authors, Latin American

Internet Links

Anthropology

• Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
• UCSB Anthropology Web Site (Univ. CA at Santa Barbara)

Art

• Archivos Virtuales
• Diego Rivera Web Museum (Javier A. Rivera)
• Kahlo, Frida
• Latin American Art and Culture
• Museo de las Am?cas
• Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Arts
• Paintings and Prints by Latin American Artists
  
• Rio on the Hudson
  
• Tarsila do Amaral  - Tarsila do Amaral  St. James guide to Hispanic artists. Sanford campus. Ref N6532.H58S7 2002. pages 182-184. Includes  picture of painting Central Railroad of Brazil)

Alegria, Fern&o

• Biography (Stanford)

• Literature & Revolution (translated by D. Ohmans)
  

Allende, Isabel

• Awards
• House of the Spirits (Excerpts from various reviews)
• Interview for Borders (Trudy Wyss)
• Interview (Linda Richards. January Magazine)
• Isabel Allende (official site)
• Isabel Allende (Emory University)
• The Power Behind the Language of Isabel Allende (Elvia Lizeth Escobedo. Berkeley McNair Journal. Winter 1996, Volume 4)
• Review of Allende's Paula: Surviving Affliction (Victor Perera)
   

Borges, Jorges Luis

• Jorges Luis Borges (AARHUS University)
  

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

• A Talk With Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Marlise Simons, NY Times)
• "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism (Elizabeth Van Tilburg and Kelly Goodall)
• Biography
• Essay on One Hundred Years of Solitude (Ian Johnston)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (NYU)
• Macondo (Allen Ruch)
• Nobel Prize Lecture
• Nobel Prize Press release 
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Margaret Lee)
   

General

• Humanities in Latin America (LANIC)
• Internet Resources for Latin America (New Mexico State University Library)
• Latin American Data Base (LADB, University of New Mexico)
• Latin American History (SCC)
• Latin American Studies (Yale Library)
• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• LatinWorld
• North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
• Recommended US Latino Web Sites (Susan A. Vega Garc? Iowa State University)
   

Gomez-Pena, Guillermo

• New World Border (reviews)

Kahlo, Frida

• Biography of Frida (Dictionary of Hispanic Biography by Joseph C. Tardiff, L. Mpho Mabunda)
• Dolores Olmedo Pati?useum (Hacienda La Noria - 5843 Av. Mexico - Xochimilco district of Mexico City, Spanish language site)
• Frida by Kahlo (Fredrik Buch)
• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) (National Museum of Women in the Arts)
• Image List (Artchive)
• Self Portrait Between the Borderline (Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University)

Literature

• Literatura Argentina Contemporanea
• Literature (LANIC)
• Alegria, Fern&o
• Allende, Isabel
• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
• Gomez-Pena, Guillermo
• Neruda, Pablo
• Vargas Llosa, Mario
• Valdez, Luis

Maya

• Maya (Richard Hooker)
• Maya Adventure (Science Museum of Minnesota)
• Maya Civilization (Paula Giese)
• Maya Civilization (Mexico Connect)
• MayaRuins.com (Barbara A. McKenzie)
• Meso American Photo Archives (David R. Hixson)
• Mesoweb (Joel Skidmore)
• Pre-Columbian Art (Kimbell Art Museum)
• Rabbit in the Moon (Nancy McNelly)
• Teotihuacan (Arizona State Univ.)

Mexico

• Mexico: 19th Century from Empire to Revolution (Getty Research Institute)
• Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
• Pre-Columbian Culture (University of Guadalajara)

Music

• Andean Music - M?a Andina
• El Tango (Jos?lberto Mari?
• Latin American music & dance (ngel A. Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• Merengue: The Music (extracted from "Teaching and Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
• Music in Latin America (LANIC)
• Salsa: The Music (from "Teaching and Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
• Tango (William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music)
• Words, pronunciation, & translation for La Bamba
   

Neruda, Pablo

• Elementary Odes
• "Love"
• Nobel Prize in Literature 1971: Biography, Nobel Lecture
• On Pablo Neruda from Pegasos Author's Calendar
• Three Poems: "Clenched Soul," "Poetry," and "Saddest Poem"
• Twelve Poems Translated by Jodey Bateman

Valdez, Luis

• Internet Movie Database
• La Bamba  (1987)
• Zoot Suit (1981)
   

Zoot Suit Riots

• Zoot Suit Riots
   

Locate Articles:

•  Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) (Some Full Text)
•  Biography Resource Center (Gale) (Full Text)
•  FirstSearch (OCLC)
• Topic Areas and Databases Suggested:
• Topic Area: Arts and Humanities  Databases AHSearch , Clase & Periodica (Index of Latin American journals in the sciences & humanities)
•  Literature Resource Center (Gale) (Full Text)
•  MLA (SCC's UCF Identification Number required. Inquire at the Reference Department to get the current
    password. Use of these links is limited to the current students, faculty, and staff of SCC.) 

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