Article Databases

START at the Library home page -www.nvcc.edu/library. 
    - Select Articles
          - Select "Humanities-Literature"

Good databases to start with:

Literature Resource Center - Provides author information, criticism and interpretation, and plot summaries. An Author Search will find the broadest amount of information. Advanced and Keyword searches allow you to be more specific about the information you need. [Note: The "Title Search" in this database is not very effective. Try a "Keyword Search" using the title and author's name instead (see examples further below), or try an "Advanced Search" (see sample screen capture below)]

JSTOR - Provides articles from scholarly journals. On the "Advanced Search" page, type in your search terms, select the"Language & Literature" and "Latin American Studies" collections (and any other collections that seem relevant) from the list below the search box.

Academic Search Complete, ProQuest and Factiva (under "More Database Choices") - Provide articles on many topics, including articles with reviews, criticism, and background infromation on literature.

Examples of Keyword searches:

Julio Cortazar AND cronopios and famas
Cabrera Infante AND language
Cristina Peri Rossi AND ship of fools
Cristina Peri Rossi AND nave de los locos [try searching for the title in Spanish and English]
macho camacho* AND Luis Rafael Sanchez [the *asterisk* tells the database to search for any words starting with the letters preceding it; in this case, this search will find articles with either Macho Camacho's Beat or La Guaracha del Macho Camacho.]

If the complete text of the article you want is not in the database you're using, you can check to see if it is available in another library database or in another format (e.g., paper or microfilm) by checking for the title of the magazine, journal, or newspaper in our Periodical List. If we do subscribe to the periodical you need, this list will tell you where to find it.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature REF PQ7081 .A1 E56 1997
(for Cabrera Infante, Cortazar, Dorfman, Peri Rossi, Sanchez)

Latin American Writers REF PQ7081 .A1 L37 1989 v.1-3
(for Cabrera Infante and Cortazar)

World Literature and Its Times: Latin American Literature REF PQ7081 .M625 1999
(for Cabrera Infante, Sanchez, Cortazar, Dorfman)

Spanish American Writing Since 1941: A Critical Survey REF PQ7081 .M373 1987
(for Cabrera Infante, Cortazar, Peri Rossi, Sanchez)

Modern Latin American Literature REF PQ 7081 .F63 1975 v.1-2
(for Cabrera Infante and Cortazar)

Literary Cultures of Latin America REF PQ7081 .A1 L525 2004
(for Cabrera Infante, Cortazar, Peri Rossi, Sanchez)

Epics for Students REF PN56 .E65 E67 1997

Encyclopedia of the Novel REF PN41.E487 1998 v.1-2 See Latin American Novel

Short Story Criticism REF PN3321 .S5 (use the "AUTHOR INDEX" in the last volume to find out which volume of SSC has criticism on your author) (for Historia de Cronopios y de Famas)

Latin American History & Culture REF F1406 .E53 1996

Encyclopedia of Cuba REF F1754 .E53 2003

Encyclopedia of Nationalism REF JC311 .S5484 1990

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History REF HC15 .O94 2003

The New Catholic Encyclopedia REF BX841 .N44 2003

Encyclopedia of Religion REF BL31 .E46 2005

Oxford Reference Online