--> Each region or country will have slightly different chronological headings, and the chronological divisions are different for history and literature. Search for the country or region (e.g. Southern Cone of South America) and look at the chronological headings.
Note also that materials are classified to the level of specificity of the item, i.e., a book on Pedro Páramo won't have "Rulfo, Juan" as a heading, and a book just on Rulfo won't have "Mexican literature--History and criticism" as a heading.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.
<Country name as adjective> literature--History and criticism. (Peruvian literature--History and criticism.)
<Movement or person name>--History and criticism. (Negritude--History and criticism. Palés Matos, Gustavo, 1907-1963.)
Latin America--History.
--Politics and government
--Social life and customs
--Intellectual life
<Country name>--History.
--Politics and government
--Social life and customs
--Intellectual life
Sources are distinguished by how close they are to the original data:
WorldCat has two interfaces:
You can establish an account in either of the interfaces. In the new interface, you can save records to lists, and generate bibliographies. In the New WorldCat, ILL requests are automated.
On the "All Databases" page: http://sierra.memphis.edu/search~S4/y
Choose the second box ("Databases by academic area or category") and select "Latin American Studies" or "Literature"
All of these provide the relatively seamless access to articles:
Database | |
MLA International Bibliography | |
JSTOR | searches must have specific-enough terms or will return many random hits |
EBSCO Humanities Full Text |