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Spanish & Latin American Literature

Use this guide to identify research tools and strategies for the study of literature from Spain and Latin America.

Find Books & eBooks

Looking for a classic work?

Many pieces of literature (mainly pre-1923) can be found online.

Try 

Use the Advanced Search. 

  • This is helpful for prolific writers and/or common titles.

Screengrab of Henry Advanced Search for La Barraca in the Title and Notes fields with the Any of these bullet highlighted and selected..

Search the Notes. 

  • Searches the table of contents of anthologies of literature and criticism.


Having trouble locating a work by author?

  • Follow these examples when searching for authors with compound surnams and articles in their name.

    • Last name, first name (do not include article prior to the name)

      • Examples:
      • Vega, Lope de
      • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
      • Unamuno, Miguel de

    • Compound Surname, first name

      • Garcia Lorca, Federico
      • Pardo Bazan, Emilia
      • Perez Galdos, Benito 

Looking for a smaller work, such as a poem, short story, or novella?

  • Check our anthologies in the stacks: PQ 6170 - 6269 range

Need a book the library does not own?

You can request the book through Interlibrary Loan.  Info and a downloadable form are available here!

To search for books available in other libraries, try using

WorldCat -- Search the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries to locate books and identify citation information.

OR

Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections.

NOTE: Users do not need to identify a library that owns the book. Simply provide the appropriate information on the form and library staff will do the rest!

Locating Literary Works in Databases and on the Web