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SPANISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE
- General:
Guide to On-line Texts and Virtual Libraries
- Biblioteca
Virtual Miguel de Cervantes -- The holdings of this virtual library
are extensive and include both Spanish American and Peninsular
Literature. Many of the well known editions of older works are
included here and provide the reader with the glosses
and notes published in the original, authoritative editions.
- Biblioteca
Virtual (Banco de la República, Colombia)
This
site's strength is Colombian literature. The home page has
an internal search engine to look for authors or titles.
- Bibliotecas
Virtuales -- This web site provides access to online texts in
Spanish for international authors as well as those from Spanish
speaking countries. There is
also a section dedicated to juvenile literature in Spanish (both
original
and translated).
- BitBiblioteca
--
This virtual library from Venezuela offers many on-line texts including
literature, essays and some historical texts.
- Ciudad Seva -- This website
from Puerto Rico contains a good online collection of short stories
including translations to Spanish of other national literatures.
- Interletras.
Revista
de Crítica y Literatura en Lengua Española
In
addition to the latest numbers of the journal in full text, this site
offers links to Spanish literary texts on-line and other sources of
literary criticism.
- La
Nación On
Line: Suplemento Cultura -- The on-line literary supplement
of this noted Argentine daily offers book reviews and literary
criticism.
- Proyecto Ensayo
Hispánico -- This web site is dedicated to the study of the
essay as literary genre, on both sides of the Atlantic. In
addition to history and literary criticism, there are selections from
major authors.
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Páginas
de
literatura chilena -- This web page
offers many links to individual authors, genres, and history of
literature
in Chile.
- Retablo
de literatura
chilena
-- Selected contemporary authors are represented on this web site.
The individual author pages include critical material as well as
representative texts.
- Premios
Nobel de Literatura -- This site from the
University of Chile is dedicated to Chile's great figures in history,
including its internationally acclaimed
poets: Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. Though the link for
"Premios Nobel de Literatura" is not functioning, both linked sites
below it are
extensive in coverage including biographical and bibliographical
material as well as an anthology of texts.
- Colombia
- Antología
de la poesía colombiana -- This web site is part of the
virtual library sponsored by the Banco de
la República. The anthology covers the colonial period to
the
present.
- Gabriel
García Márquez -- This page from the Centro
Virtual Cervantes is dedicated to the Colombian author. There is
a wealth of biographical information as well as bibliographical cards
for each of his major works with background information on the
publication of the work and a summary of the content.
- Gabriel
García Márquez: un colombiano universal -- This BBC program in Spanish
includes interviews with the Colombian author about his childhood, the
inspiration for his literary works, and other subjects
- Literatura colombiana -- This web site offers links to
individual Colombian authors as well as links to other pages on
Colombian literature.
- Novela
colombiana (Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz) -- Designed for an online course
at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá this web site offers
excellent critical materials as well as selections from Colombian
novelists.
- Costa Rica
- Literatura
costarricense -- This is a page from
sololiteratura.com. It includes links to individual authors from
an alphabetical list and links to major newspapers that offer book
reviews. Many of the author links do not function.
- El
Poder de la Palabra: Literatura - Costa Rica -- This extensive anthology of
literature, art, music, architecture, and film contains several poets
from Costa Rica, including excepts from their poems.
- Cuba
- Casa de
las
Américas -- This web site is a portal not
only to Cuban literature and culture but
provides news items and reviews of books, cinema, and other artistic
manifestations for Latin America as well.
- Cuba literaria -- This web site provides access
to literary reviews and information on contemporary Cuban authors as
well as pages dedicates to a retrospective view of Cuban literature.
- La
literatura cubana contemporánea o el "boom" cubano -- The focus of this web site is
contemporary Cuban literature, including the literary production of
Cuban authors in exile.
- Páginas
de
literatura cubana -- There are links to many
individual authors on this page as well as links to history and
overviews of Cuban literature.
- Dominican Republic
- Escritores
dominicanos -- This web site offers
information and selections from the latest Dominican writers as well as
a historical overview of Dominican literature.
- Páginas
de
literatura dominicana -- Increased
immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic
has spurred interest in the literature of this country both from
authors
living in the Dominican Republic and authors in exile.
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Literatura
Guatemalteca -- This is a page from
sololiteratura.com. It includes links to individual authors from
an alphabetical list and links to major newspapers that offer book
reviews. Many of the author links do not function.
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Panama:
Autores: Páginas y Revistas -- Still
under construction (i.e. soliciting information), this site
demonstrates the paucity of material available for some national
literatures. For Panamanian literature, before the twentieth
century it may be possible to locate information under Colombia.
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Uruguay
- Autores
uruguayos -- This page
offers a history of Uruguayan literature and links to individual
authors.
- Literatura -- Two
Uruguayan authors, Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano, are featured on
this page.
- Venezuela
- Páginas
de literatura venezolana -- On this web page you will find
links to individual authors, history of
Venezuelan literature, and pages dedicated to specific literary
movements
such as modernismo and realismo mágico.
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