World-Wide Web Resources
Latin American and Spanish Literature

General Resources

  • Clase and Periodica, available via FirstSearch. Indexes documents published in Latin American journals (from 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues) specializing in social sciences and humanities (Clase), and science and technology (Periodica). Covers 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English, plus monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • MLA International Bibliography (plus ABELL plus Full-Text) via LION/Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest). (Covers the 1880s - present; updated 9 times a year.) The Modern Language Association International Bibliography contains references to language and literature commentary in books, book collections and articles from over 4,400 journals; more than 66,000 records in over 60 languages are currently added each year. The index also includes dictionaries, catalogs, handbooks, bibliographies, indexes, other reference works, published working papers, conference papers, conference proceedings, citations of dissertations from Dissertations Abstracts International, handbooks, anthologies for teaching, syllabi, textbooks, and curriculum guides. Subject coverage includes:

  • Literature: from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America
  • Folklore: folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems
  • Language and linguistics: the study of languages from any historical period, including history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, syntax and translation
  • Literary theory and criticism
  • Dramatic arts: film, radio, television and theatre
  • History of printing and publishing
  • Teaching of language, literature, rhetoric and composition at college level (from 1998 onwards)

    • In addition to the contents of the annual volumes (which record scholarship from around 1960 onwards), the electronic version of the bibliography also includes subject-indexed records for the entire runs of journals from JSTOR's Language and Literature collection. This comprises over 50,000 records, including material from journals from as far back as the 1880s. Connect to JSTOR or the Fulltext Online Journals Database (FOJD) to access the full-text of those articles.
    Please Note: The LION search interface that includes the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) is labeled Search : Criticism & Reference (All). When you use this interface, you are also searching bibliographic citations from ABELL (the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), biographies, reference works and web sites as well as the MLA International Bibliography. You can search the MLA International Bibliography in a stand-alone version; however, the full-text of articles is not available in the stand-alone version.
    To see copies of the resources referenced in MLAIB and ABELL, look for the following icons to the left of each citation (the source of each citation is labeled to distinguish the source of the citation):

    For those items that do not have full-text links via LION, or if you are using the stand-alone version of the MLAIB, search the InfoKat catalog using a journal or book title search to see if we own a paper version of the item. You may also search magazine or journal titles in the Fulltext Online Journals Database to see if we have access to an electronic copy from other full-text services.
    If we don't have access to the resources you locate in MLAIB, UK affiliates may make an Interlibrary Loan request via your ILLiad account.
    Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • ARL Latin American Research Resources

  • Biblioteca Electrónica

  • Diccionario De Escritores Mexicanos Siglo XX

  • Espéculo, revista de Estudios Literarios.

  • La Biblioteca Nacional, the Spanish National Library. Site in Spanish.

  • Golden Age Spanish Sonnets, contains 101 sonnets with translations posted.

  • Hispanic Web Spanish Literature Resources, from the University of Kentucky Department of Spanish and Italian.

  • HLAS, Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies Online. This is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

  • Iberian Language and Literature Web, this site "is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Iberian language and literature."

  • Internet Resources for Latin America, from the New Mexico State University Library.

  • LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center), guide to many regional websites and literature resources in Latin America.

  • Las Mujeres, information on women writers such as Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, and Angeles Mastretta.

  • Latin World, a directory of Internet resources on Latin America and the Caribbean. English and Spanish.

  • Internet Resources, resources on Latin America, Spain and Portugal. From Duke University.

  • LEMIR, Revista de literatura Espaéola Medieval y Renacimiento.

  • Literatura, from Artes e Historia. Includes a dictionary of Mexican writers.

  • Literatura Argentina Contemporanea, site in Spanish only.

  • Literatura Latinoamerica, Amantes de la literatura de todo el mundo, Colombia y Francia. Pizarnik, Lispector, Caicedo, Desnos, Calvino, Cioran, Che Guevara, Neruda, Kafka, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Claudel, Borges, De Greiff, Jaramillo, Artaud, Trakl, Aragon, Arreola.

  • Magical Realism, "the term 'magical realism' defines a narrative tendency in Latin America during 1949 to 1970. Magic Realism can be defined as a preoccupation or interest in showing something common or daily into something unreal or strange." This site defines and discusses this movement.

  • Nuevo Mundo, orientada hacia las letras latinoamericanas.

  • OlŽ Humanidades, Spanish Language search tool for locating information on literature.

  • Rinc—n Literario, in Spanish only. The literature section of the online periodical: Mundo Latino.

  • Spanish and Latin American Literature, links from the University of California, Davis. Includes links to online databases, selected websites and other resources.

  • Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

    • Specific Authors

  • Aleixandre, Vicente, Spanish writer (1898-1984) and Nobel Laureate, 1977.

  • Allende, Isabel, Allende is a Chilean author who started out as a journalist. She has since written stories for children, plays, and novels such as "The House of the Spirits", "Paula" and "Aphrodite."

  • Asturias, Miguel Angel, site in Spanish.

  • Benedetti, Mario

  • BŽcquer, Gustavo Adolfo, Spanish Romantic poet (1836-1870).

  • Borges, Jorge Luis, from The Borges Center for Studies and Documentation. Site available in English, Spanish and French.

  • Carpentier, Alejo, Carpentier "public— la novela El Reino de Este Mundo en 1949, la cual marco el inicio de una larga carrera que dur— hasta su muerte en 1980. Uno de los aspectos m‡s importantes de Alejo Carpentier, fue el an‡lisis cultural de AmŽrica Latina por medio de la literatura".

  • Casares, Adolfo Bioy

  • Cervantes Project 2000, Miguel de, list of WWW links to sites on Cervantes.

  • Clar’n, Leopoldo Alas, Art’culos, ensayos y bibliograf’a del autor espa–ol.

  • Cort‡zar, Julio. Cortazar, a prolific Argentine writer, wrote books such as "Los Reyes" (1949) and "El Examen" (1986).

  • Cruz, Sor Juana InŽs de la, project from Dartmouth University.

  • Denevi, Marco

  • Donoso, JosŽ

  • Dar’o, RubŽn

  • Gallegos, R—mulo

  • JimŽnez, Juan Ram—n, site in Spanish only. De la Fundaci—n Juan Ram—n JimŽnez.

  • Larra, Mariano JosŽ de

  • Lorca, Federico Garc’a, site in Spanish.

  • M‡rquez, Gabriel Garc’a, Nobel Laureate, 1982. Macondo Site.

  • Mistral, Gabriela, Chilean lyric poet and 1945 Nobel Laureate.

  • Neruda, Pablo, life of Pablo Neruda, Nobel Laureate, 1971.

  • Paz, Octavio, Nobel Laureate, 1990.

  • Rulfo, Juan, la Obra de Juan Rulfo.

  • Unamuno, Miguel de

  • Valle-Incl‡n, Ram—n, fondo y formo.

    • This page was last updated 17 July 2005. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Judy Fugate at Judy.Fugate@uky.edu.

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