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One of the best ways to discover the perfect source for your topic is to browse the library stacks by call number range. Each call number range represents a particular subject and all of the books on a particular topic will be located in the same general area on the shelves. So if you want a book on Latin American literature, go to the call number range beginning with PQ7081 to see what we have!
Spanish 500: Hispanic Women Writers
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- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly journal articles and ebooks related to the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage: 2-5 years from current.
- Dialnet – Universidad de la RiojaRecurso Libre : Portal de difusión de la producción científica hispana, en idioma español y de carácter interdisciplinario. Da acceso a más de un millón de referencias de libros, tesis y artículos de revistas, algunos a texto completo.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ es un directorio en línea curado por la comunidad que proporciona acceso a publicaciones académicas de acceso abierto.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowBibliography on Latin America, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Coverage: 1936 - present.
- Latin American Newspapers - World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text content from Latin American newspapers. Coverage: 1805 - 1922.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowBibliographies focused on Latin American Studies. Sample topics range from indigenous studies and the Conquest and colonial history and society, to race, immigration, the role of women, significant political events and cultural studies in contemporary Latin America.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
- MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndex with some abstracts and some full-text journal articles, books, series, translations, and dissertations on the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. Includes. Coverage: 1900s - present.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles from journals, magazines, and reference sources that covering a broad range of academic study.
- Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino ArtExplore over 8,000 Documents of 20th and 21st-century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among US Latino communities.
- El Poder de la PalabraThis site includes biographies, bibliographies and text excerpts by and about writers, composers, architects and actors worldwide, including an extensive selection of outstanding Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese authors.
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in Spanish & PortugueseFrom UC Santa Barbara, this is a comprehensive list of web resources on literature in Spanish and Portuguese.
Cartucho, and My Mother's Hands by
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.
Call Number: PQ7297.C24448 C3713 1988ISBN: 0292711107Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Hasta No Verte Jesus Mio by
The novel chronicles the life of Jesusa Palancares, a woman of Oaxacan origin who lives in poverty, marries a soldier and fights in the revolution.
Call Number: PQ7297.P63 H3 1969ISBN: 9684112076Publication Date: 1969
La Casa de los Espíritus by
La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despotico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrara a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegracion. Atrapados en unas dramaticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una epoca que abarca gran parte de este siglo. ** La casa de los espiritus ha sido adaptada al cine en una pelicula protagonizada por Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep y Antonio Banderas. Resena: Un logro unico, a la vez testimonio personal y posible alegoria del pasado, el presente y el futuro de America Latina. The New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 0060951303Publication Date: 2001-09-18
Meditación en el Umbral - Antología Poética by
Lejos de todo formulario feminista, la poes a de Rosario Castellanos habla desde la m s profunda intimidad de la mujer. la soledad, la angustia, la burla contra s misma, pueblan sus p ginas, pero tambi n una energ a, un rigor y un talento deslumbrante que la colocan entre las fundadoras de la literatura femenina en M xico.
Call Number: PQ7297.C2596 M4 1985ISBN: 9681618882Publication Date: 1985-01-01
A Dream of Light and Shadow by
Includes original essays on the most outstanding female figures in Latin American literature.
Call Number: PQ7081.3 .D74 1995ISBN: 0826316336Publication Date: 1995-05-01
Knives and Angels by
This book offers insights into a range of major Latin American women writers whose works are only just beginning to be known by English-speaking readers. The majority of Latin American writers now well-known to the English-speaking world are men; this collection of essays from a wide range of nationalities, aims to redress the balance by instead focusing on women's writing. Included are chapters on the impact of critics such as Victoria Ocampo, who changes the face of the Latin American literary scene; on Chilean playwrights, Nicaraguan revolutionary poets, Columbian women's writing; interviews with the novelist Margo Glantz, and with the film director Maria Luisa Bemberg. Also features are studies of such novelists as the starkly realist Elena Poniatowska, and the lyrically surrealist Maria Luisa Bombal; and an essay on Clarice Lispector by her official English language translator. This collection offers a variety of approaches and aims to demonstrate the extraordinary power and vitality of women writers selected from a wide range of Latin American countries- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, among others - whose works are attaining international recognition. This is a book for interested general readers, especially those concerned with women writers, as well as for literature students.
Call Number: PQ7081.A1 K55 1990ISBN: 0862328748Publication Date: 1990-06-01
Passion, Memory and Identity by
This collection of essays, written by a distinguished group of literary critics, explores the Jewish woman's experience in Latin America. It came about as an attempt to define the cultural experience of Jewish Latin American women writers, as well as their relationship with their various countries. Included are Ilan Stavans and Magdalena Maiz-Peña writing on Mexico, David William Foster on Argentina, Regina Igel and Nelson Vieira on Brazil, Elizabeth Ross Horan on Chile and Uruguay, Joan Friedman on Venezuela, and Ruth Behar, Ester Shapiro Rok, and Rosa Lowinger on Cuba. As Marjorie Agosín notes, the role of memory for the writers included in this volume is a central theme. The majority of them are daughters of Sephardic or Ashkenazi immigrants, many of whom fled the Holocaust. They write openly about their identity and their hybrid condition as Jews in predominantly Catholic countries, an issue that has not, until recently, been addressed with candor.
Call Number: PQ7081.A1 P37 1999bISBN: 9780826320490Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Spain and Spanish America by
Among the contributers are Clara Janes, Each study suggests detailed readings of selected texts. Some of the writers discussed are recognized as key figures in the Hispanic canon (Carmen Laforet, Rosario Castellanos, Carmen Conde, Merce Rodoreda, Juana de Ibarbourou). Others are less well-known (Maria Luisa Bombal, Idea Vilarino, Dora Alonso, Gioconda Belli, Julie Sopetran, Tina Diaz) but important to an understanding of women as producers of textual meaning. Among the contributers are Clara Janes, Monserrat Ordonez and Mirta Yanez. What emerges are the multiple subversive strategies used by women writing in Spanish and Catalan to enable self-representation and to challenge hegemonic discourse.
Call Number: PQ6055 .W65 1993ISBN: 0889464235Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Madwomen by
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis--poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting "madwomen" who are anything but mad. Strong and intensely human, Mistral's poetic women confront impossible situations to which no sane response exists. This groundbreaking collection presents poems from Mistral's final published volume as well as new editions of posthumous work, featuring the first English-language appearance of many essential poems. Madwomen promises to reveal a profound poet to a new generation of Anglophone readers while reacquainting Spanish readers with a stranger, more complicated "madwoman" than most have ever known.
Call Number: Online & PQ8097.G6 A2 2008ISBN: 0226531899Publication Date: 2008
The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
ISBN: 0511999712Publication Date: 2006-05-28
Dioses de jade y sombra. by
Una fantástica novela inspirada en la cultura maya. La Era del Jazz está en pleno apogeo, pero Casiopea Tun está demasiado ocupada fregando suelos en casa de su rico abuelo como para prestar atención a las nuevas melodías. Sueña, de todos modos, con una vida lejos de su pequeño y polvoriento pueblo en el sur de México.
ISBN: 9788445012147Publication Date: 2022
Más Allá / Afterlife by
"Uno de los libros más esperados del año" según Oh, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, Goodreads, Library Journal, LitHub y Electric Literature. Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de una inmigrante ilegal en el garaje de su casa, devuelven a Antonia a la dura realidad. En estas circunstancias, el mundo requiere más que palabras. Mas allá es una novela ágil y de prosa depurada. En momentos en los que reinan la confusión y el caos, la protagonista se plantea: ¿Le debemos algo a los que sufren, sean inmigrantes desconocidos o familiares cercanos? ¿Cómo podemos mantener la fe en los demás y en nosotros mismos en una realidad destrozada? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo honramos a las personas que amamos y hemos perdido? "Una imponente obra de arte que recordara a los lectores que Alvarez está, y siempre ha estado, en un nivel inigualable". --Elizabeth Acevedo, autora del New York Times bestseller, Poet X y ganadora del National Book Award "Un retrato íntimo de una escritora inmigrante y reciente viuda que consigue sacar esperanza en medio de un luto personal y político". --O, The Oprah Magazine "Una novela divertida y conmovedora acerca del amor y la perdida...Alvarez escribe con calidez sobre la relación entre hermanas, sobre cómo pueden pelearse, pero también como apoyarse como nadie. En esta novela de corazón grande, los lazos familiares sanan el luto de una mujer".--Kirkus Reviews "Una encantadora novela de inmigración, perdida y amor". --Booklist "La reina está de vuelta con la novela que necesitamos en este momento. Un poderoso testimonio sobre la humanidad, escrito con audacia y autoridad". --Luis Alberto Urrea, autor del bestseller, La casa de los ángeles rotos "Encantadora y sincera, Mas allá explora las complejidades de la devoción familiar y la tragedia, con el trasfondo de un mundo en crisis, y la forma en que luchamos por mantener la esperanza, la fe, la compasión y el amor. Esta es Julia Alvarez en su mejor y mas intima version". --Jonathan Santlofer, autor de The Widower''s Notebook "Desde siempre Julia Alvarez ha demostrado que es sabia además de divertida, y que tiene buen ojo para las alegrías y los pesares del amor y la familia. Ahora, en Mas allá, aplica sus dones a la historia de Antonia, quien lucha por salir de la comodidad consoladora de la poesía y enfrentarse de nuevo a la floreciente confusión del mundo".--Stewart O''Nan, autor de Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
ISBN: 9780593082584Publication Date: 2020-09-22
Mujer Sin Vergüenza / Woman Without Shame by
Una valiente colección de poemas nuevos de Sandra Cisneros, autora del libro de mayor venta La casa en Mango Street. Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento y hacia el reconocimiento de su derecho como mujer artista. Estas meditaciones descarnadas y a menudo humorísticas sobre la memoria, el deseo y la naturaleza esencial del amor abren un camino hacia la autoconciencia. Para Cisneros, Mujer sin vergüenza es la culminación de la búsqueda de un hogar, en el México de sus antepasados y en su propio corazón. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With more than a dozen new poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and that tell her fight to live as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home--in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.
ISBN: 9781644734766Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Llorando en el Baño: Memorias / Crying in the Bathroom: a Memoir by
De la autora de Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, bestseller del New York Times, nos llegan estos originalísimos ensayos autobiográficos, profundamente conmovedores y de una comicidad que desarma. Hija de inmigrantes mexicanos y criada en Chicago en la década de los noventa, Erika L. Sánchez se ha descrito a sí misma como paria, inadaptada y un chasco: agitadora melancólica y malhablada que se pintaba las uñas de negro, pero también disfrutaba la comedia y tenía el sueño improbable de ser poeta. Veinticinco años más tarde se ha convertido en una galardonada novelista, poeta y ensayista, pero no ha perdido la risa incontrolable, su áspero ingenio y sus singulares poderes para percibir el mundo a su alrededor. En estos ensayos, que tratan de todo --desde la sexualidad hasta el feminismo blanco, pasando por la depresión debilitante y las búsquedas redentoras de la espiritualidad, el arte y los viajes--, Sánchez revela una vida interior rica en ideas, autoconciencia y percepción: la de una mujer que trazó un camino enteramente de su propia factura. Atrevido, perspicaz, incorregible y brutalmente honesto, Llorando en el baño es Sánchez en su máxima expresión: un libro que te hará sentir ese subidón que resulta de revelaciones íntimas y horas de plática con tu mejor amiga. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is asdeeply moving as it is hilarious. Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she's now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she's still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Sánchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best--a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.
ISBN: 9780593314739Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Ingenio y Feminidad by
El volumen reúne ensayos que se acercan a la obra sorjuanina desde un prisma analítico específico, el de la relación entre ingenio y feminidad. Desde la antigüedad, dicha relación implica una profunda disimetría en cuanto al género. Ahí comienza una exclusión sistemática del sexo femenino del concepto de genialidad que alcanza su punto culminante en el siglo XVII hispánico. Los artículos desarrollan nuevas perspectivas sobre la obra de la monja, sus procedimientos literarios y declaraciones temáticas, tomando en cuenta tanto su conciencia crítica de la disimetría nocional enraizada en la figura del genio, como el hecho de que ella misma intentaba contrarrestarla mediante el desarrollo de una concepción alternativa y más equilibrada de la genialidad que, además, aplicaba a sí misma como mujer. Con este nuevo enfoque, el presente volumen constituye un aporte no solo a la obra sorjuanina, sino al conocimiento del horizonte cultural del periodo en su totalidad, así como a los estudios de la mujer.
ISBN: 3954878976Publication Date: 2017-12-01
The Answer / la Respuesta (Expanded Edition) by
Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana In#65533;s de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. It includes the fully annotated primary text, The Answer/La Respuesta (1691), which is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her; the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer; an expanded selection of poems; an updated bibliography; and a new preface.
ISBN: 9781558616233Publication Date: 2009-06-01
- La Casa de los Espíritus by
La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despotico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca arrastrara a los Trueba a una dolorosa desintegracion. Atrapados en unas dramaticas relaciones familiares, los personajes de esta poderosa novela encarnan las tensiones sociales y espirituales de una epoca que abarca gran parte de este siglo. ** La casa de los espiritus ha sido adaptada al cine en una pelicula protagonizada por Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep y Antonio Banderas. Resena: Un logro unico, a la vez testimonio personal y posible alegoria del pasado, el presente y el futuro de America Latina. The New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 0060951303Publication Date: 2001-09-18
El viento conoce mi nombre. by
Una historia de violencia, amor, desarraigo y esperanza
Un AUDIOLIBRO DRAMATIZADO en el que participan más de 20 actores y actrices de 4 países distintos, así como la propia ISABEL ALLENDE.
ISBN: 9788401032004Publication Date: 2023
Violeta. by
La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX.
ISBN: 9788466362887Publication Date: 2022
La casa de los espíritus. by
La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos.
Este audiolibro incluye dedicatoria, agradecimientos y prefacio narrados por Isabel Allende.
ISBN: 0394539079Publication Date: 2014
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by
Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás a Julia para ocuparse de las secuelas.
ISBN: 9781524700492Publication Date: 2017-10-17
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When the Mountains Tremble by
A classic documentary on war and social revolution in Guatemala, which vigorously and persuasively describes the struggle of the largely indigenous peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression.. Centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, a Maya K'iche indigenous leader, the film interweaves interviews, re-enactments, and stunning footage shot at great hazard into a wide-ranging yet cohesive epic canvas of the Guatemalan struggle.. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
Publication Date: 1983
I, the Worst of All . by
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
Isabel Allende: A Writer's Life by
The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. She has written nearly twenty novels, the most famous of which are The House of the Spirits, Paula and Aphrodite. Her books have sold more than thirty-five million copies in over thirty languages.
Publication Date: 2007