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SPANISH CIVILIZATION & CULTURE

Compiled and Maintained by Patricia Gregory, Ph.D, M.L.S., M.A.
Assistant University Librarian for Public Services
Modern Languages Liaison Librarian
Updated: August 21, 2006

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This guide contains selected resources, both print and electronic, available in either the Reference Department or general collection of Pius XII Memorial Library. Sources include reference books for background information, indexes and databases to find articles in magazines and journals, and Internet sites appropriate for students and teachers of Spanish civilization and culture.
 
CONTENTS


Library of Congress Subject Headings || Encyclopedias || Spanish Language Dictionaries
Travel and Education Guides || Latin American Studies || United States Government Documents
Literature || Periodicals || Indexes/Abstracts/Databases || Internet Resources
 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS


Library of Congress Subject Headings are used for searches in the SLU Libraries Catalog, and can be used as key words when searching in databases and CD-ROM indexes and abstracts. These headings are representative. You may also use individual country or personal names as well as specific time periods.

ARCHITECTURE, SPANISH
ART-SPAIN
ART, SPANISH
BUSINESS SPANISH
LATIN AMERICA-CIVILIZATION
LATIN AMERICA-DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL
LATIN AMERICA-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
LATIN AMERICA-SOCIAL CONDITIONS
MOVING-PICTURES-LATIN AMERICA
MOVING-PICTURES-SPAIN
PHILOSOPHY, SPANISH
SPAIN-HISTORY (See appropriate historical period)
SPANISH DRAMA
SPANISH LITERATURE (See also different time periods)
SPANISH FICTION
SPANISH POETRY
SPANISH PROSE LITERATURE
SPANISH WIT AND HUMOR

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS


The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
     Ref. F 1406 .C36 1992

Enciclopedia Hispánica
     Ref. AE 61 .E362 1991

Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana
     Ref. AE 61 .E6
Commonly known as Espasa; annual supplements

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture
     Ref. DP 233.5 .E63 1999

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
     Ref. F 1406 .E53 1996

Gran Enciclopedia de España y América
     Ref. F 1408 .G73

Latin America: History and Culture
     Ref. F 1406 .L38 1999

A Reference Guide to Latin American History
     Ref. F 1410 .R395 2000

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SPANISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES

Diccionario de la lengua Española
     Ref. O'size PC 4625 .A3 1984 (2 vols.)

English-Spanish / Spanish-English Dictionaries
     Ref. PC 4640

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TRAVEL AND EDUCATION GUIDES

Andalucía
     Ref. DP 302 .A46 J32
México & Central América
     Ref. F 1209 .M4863
Brazil
     Ref. F 2509.5 .F62
Peterson's Study Abroad
     Ref. LB 2376 .P46
Cancún, Cozumel, Yucatán Peninsula 
     Ref. F 1376 .F63
South America
     Ref. F 2211 .F6
Costa Rica
     Ref. F 1543.5 .F63
South American Handbook
     Ref. F 1401 .S71
Cuba
     Ref. F 1754.7 .F76
Spain
     Ref. DP 14 .S629
México
     Ref. F 1216 .F58
Study Abroad
     Ref. LB 2338 .S86

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES


The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
     Ref. F 1406 .C36

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 E56 2000

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
     Ref. F 1406 .E53 1996

Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
     Ref. PQ 6055 .F46 2002 (2 vols.)

Hispanic Culture of South America
     Ref. F 2237 .H57 1995

The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary
     Ref. F 1434 .O45 1991

ISLA (Information Services Latin America)
     Ref. F 1401 .I18
Selection of articles from major English-language newspapers, covering social, economic, and political developments in Latin America.

Latin America: An Historical Survey
     F 1410 .B22

Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources
     Ref. F 1408 .L3225 1992

Race and Ethnic Relations in Latin American and the Caribbean: An Historical Dictionary and Bibliography
     F 1419 .A1 L48 1980

Reference Guide to Latin America
    Ref. F 1410 .R395 2000

South America, Central America and the Caribbean
     Ref. F 1406.5 .S68 2004

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS


Area Handbook / Country Studies
     D 101.22:alphabetical by country
Shelved in the Government Documents area in the lower level of the library and available on the Web as Library of Congress Country Studies [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html]

Background Notes
     Ref. S 1.1123:alphabetical by country
Shelved in the Government Documents area of the Reference Department and available on the Web at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

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LITERATURE


A Bibliographical Guide to Spanish-American Literature: Twentieth-Century Sources
     Ref. PQ 7081 .R4 1988

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Cuban Literature 
     Ref. PQ 7378 .D53 1990

Handbook of Latin American Literature
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 H36 1987

Hispanic Literature Criticism
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 H573 (plus supplements at Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 H5732)

Hispanic Writers
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 H48 1991

Latin American Writers
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 L37 1989

Masterpieces of Latino Literature
     Ref. PQ 7081 .A1 M29 1994

Modern Latin American Literature
     Ref. PQ 7081 .F63

Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers
     Ref. PQ 7082 .N7 M55 1994

Modern Spanish and Portuguese Literatures
     Ref. PQ 6072 .M57 1988

Spanish American Authors: The Twentieth Century
     Ref. PQ 7081.3 .F57 1992

Spanish Women Writers
     Ref. PQ 6055 .S63 1993

Twentieth-Century Spanish Poets
     Ref. PQ 6085 .T88 1994

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PERIODICALS


E-JOURNALS

JSTOR.  Johns Hopkins.  Dates vary by title.  
     This archival journal resource provides access to full text of journal titles.

Project MUSE.  Date varies with publication. 
     Full-text access to over 300 scholarly journals published by 60 scholarly publishers in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and arts.

NEWSPAPERS

El País
     AP 60 .P355  Current two months.  Also available for past 10 years in Lexis/Nexis Academic.

Excelsior
     AP 63 .E934  Current month (Sunday issue only). From Mexico City.

   

CURRENT JOURNALS/MAGAZINES
 

ACTFL Foreign Language Education
     P10 .B7
Alba de América
     PQ 7081 .A1 A43
Bilingual Review = La Revista Bilingüe
(also available online)
     P 115 .B54
Bulletin of the Comediantes
     PQ 6098.7 .C64a

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
(continued by Bulletin of Spanish Studies--see below)
(also available online)
     PC 4008 .B82

Bulletin of Spanish Studies
(also available online)
     PC 4008 .B8

Cambio
     HC 381 .C33
Chasqui
     PQ 7081 .A1 C48
Cosmopolitan en Español
     AP 60 .C8
Cuadernos Americanos
     AP 63 .C669
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
     AP 63 .C6697
Estreno
     PQ 6098.7 .E8
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana
     PQ 8160 .E88
Explicacion de Textos Literarios
     PQ6001 .E96
Gestos
     PQ 6098.7 .G47
Hispamerica
     PQ 7081 .A1 H57
Hispania
(also available online)
     PC 4001 .H7
Hispanic American Historical Review
(also available online)
     F 1401 .H66
Hispanic Review
(also available online)
     PQ 6001 .H5
Hispanofila
     PQ 6001 .H52
Hola 
     AP 60 .H72  Current three months only
Insula
     Z 1007 .I54
INTI: Revista de Literatura Hispánica
     PQ 6001 .I57
Journal of Latin American Studies
(also available online)
     F 1401 .J69
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
(also available online)
     DP1 .J68
Latin American Literary Review
     PA 7081 .A1 L35
Latin American Music Review
(Revista de Música Latinoamericana)
     (only available online)
Latin American Perspectives
     (only available online)
Latin American Research Review
(also available online)
    F 1401 .L345
Latin American Theatre Review
     PN 2309 .L37
Latinamerica Press
     F 1414.2 .L344
Letras Libres
     AP 63 .L47
Letras Peninsulares
     PQ 7000 .L47
MLN (former title: Modern Language Notes)
(also available online)
    PB 1 .M6
National Geographic en Español
     G 1 .N2718

MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly
(also available online)
     PB 1 .M642

Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica
     PC 4008 .N84
Newsweek en Español
     AP 62 .N49
Quimera
     PN 778 .Q55
Palara
     E 185 .P946
Revista Hispánica Moderna
(also available online)
     PQ 6001 .R47
Razón y Fe:
     PN 778 .Q55
Revista Chilena de Literatura
     PQ 7900 .R48
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
     CB 226 .R39
Revista de Estudios Colombianos
     PQ 8160 .R48
Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana
(also available online)
     PQ 7081 .A1 R33

Revista de Literature
(also available online)
     PN 6 .R48

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
(also available online)
     PC 4008 .R45
Revista de Occidente
     AP 60 .R43
Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea
     PQ 7153 .R48
Scientific American = Investigación y Ciencia
     T 1 .S518
Revista Iberoamericana
     PQ 7081 .A1 R4
Texto Critico
     PQ 7081 .A1 T495
Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
(also available online)
     PQ 6001 .T47

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ABSTRACTS / INDEXES / DATABASES


Access to the following indexing and abstracting resources is available to anyone in Pius Library.  "In-library access" means that access is available in the Reference Department.  Those resources identified as being available via "remote access" are available from Pius Library's Web site [http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/].  Remote access is available to current SLU students, faculty, and staff with a SLU PPP Internet access account or who have a personal Internet Service Provider such as AOL, Charter, or EarthLink, etc.

Academic Search Premier. 1975-  . Available online.
     Updated daily.  This multidisciplinary database that includes education provides indexing and abstracting for 8,040 scholarly journals from various fields and has full text for over 4,060 beginning as far back as 1975. 6,679 journals are peer reviewed.

America: History and Life. 1964 - . Available online.
     Updated three time per year. Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada. Includes abstracts of articles and citations to book reviews and dissertations.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 1995-  . Available online.
     This database provides author and subject indexing of articles published world wide in arts and humanities journals. It also supports citation indexing, which establishes links between cited articles and the most recent publications in which they are cited.

Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola desde 1980  1980- . Available online.
    Courtesy of SLU-Madrid, this database provides over 100,000 entries for books, periodical articles, book reviews, bibliographies, proceedings, and congresses published between 1980 and the present. Topics in Spanish literature covered include literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, and authors as well as various editions and translations of the works.

ERIC   1966- . Available online.
     Indexes and abstracts approximately 980 educational and education-related journals as well as other materials such as technical reports, curriculum guides. Lesson plans, research reports and books. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it is the principal index for access to the educational literature and is the electronic equivalent of Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE).

Essay and General Literature Index
     Print: Ref. AI 3 .E 752 (East Index Shelves)

Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)
     Print: Ref. F 1408 .H16 (East Index Shelves)

Historical Abstracts   1964-  . Available online.
     Updated three times per year. Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Includes abstracts of articles and citations to book reviews and dissertations.

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies  1936- . Available online.
    Updated monthly. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, HLAS is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. HLAS alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

Humanities Index
     Print: Ref. AI 1 .H8 (East Index Shelves)  

Language Teaching
    
Print: Ref. PB 35 .L32 (East Index Shelves)

LexisNexis Academic.  Dates vary by publication.  Available online.
     Updated continuously. Provides online access to full-text of current and historical court cases, current codes and bill tracking for States and the United States, news sources, business and financial information, and international news and company information.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).   1973-  . Available online.
     Updated semi-annually. This bibliographic database provides abstracts of articles from hundreds of periodicals published worldwide, as well as books, technical reports, and dissertations. Subjects covered include child language acquisition, speech and hearing, artificial intelligence, dialectology, bilingualism, and computational and mathematical linguistics.

MLA International Bibliography.   1963-  . Available online.
     Updated 10 times per year. The Modern Language Association of America produces this database. It indexes books, book chapters, dissertations and articles from over 3,000 journals in language, linguistics literature, and folklore.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service, Inc.).   1972-  . Available online.
     Updated quarterly. Produced by the Public Affairs Information Service, this database indexes and abstracts books, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, pamphlets, and government documents covering topics that are or may become the subject of legislation. Subject areas include economic, political, and social issues, public administration, law, business, and political science. Over 1,600 journals published worldwide in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish are selectively indexed each year.

Prisma: Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas.   1991-  . Available online.
     Updated monthly. Courtesy of SLU-Madrid, this database provides full-text scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, and English in the subject areas of Anthropology, Business & Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology. Past and present cultures are covered from Hispanic America, Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.

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INTERNET RESOURCES

lanic (Latin American Network Information Center)
     http://lanic.utexas.edu/
From the University of Texas at Austin

Mundo Latino
     http://www.mundolatino.org/
News, culture, and more for the Spanish-speaking population

newspapers.start4all.com
     http://newspapers.start4all.com/
All the world's news online.  Browse by country or search for worldwide newspapers by name, country, or city.

Que Pasa
     http://www.quepasa.com
Aims at U.S. Hispanics, in Spanish and English, and give culturally relevant news and chat

Star Media
     http://www.starmedia.com
In Spanish and Portuguese, good source of Latin American news

Terra
     http://www.terra.com
Presented by Telefonica Espana, Spain's largest communications company

TRAVLANG
     http://www.travlang.com/
Foreign language for travelers, universal translator, cultural information

The Virtutal Tourist
     http://www.lub.lu.se/tk/demos/ao/webmap.htm
Geographical directory of all the WWW servers in the world

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Last updated August 21, 2006, by Patricia Gregory, Assistant University Librarian for Public Services, Modern Languages Liaison Librarian
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