The Notre Dame Library has a good collection of works by Brazilian, Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish writers. You will find works by all of the major authors writing in Spanish and Portuguese. We also have considerable literary criticism articles and books about these authors.

Important: You should be able to find materials on almost any topic assigned to you. If you cannot find materials for a paper, please contact your professor or me.

Call number location    Top
Books are placed on the shelf by the Library of Congress call number they are given. A writer's works and the criticism of those works are placed together. Along with searching Aleph, our online catalog, to find books and journals, it is a good idea to browse the shelf to see what is available. Below are the call numbers for Spanish and Portuguese literature.

• Spanish Literature - PQ6000
• Latin American Literature - PQ7000
• Portuguese Literature - PQ9000

Aleph Search Tips        Top
The following tips for searching our online catalog, Aleph, will help you to quickly find materials about an author.

Finding criticism about an author - Under keyword choose "subject keywords" and enter the author's name and the term criticism. Click on the image to see an example of searching Cervantes.

Finding criticism about a particular work by an author - Under keyword choose "subject keywords" and enter the author's name and a word found in the title of the work. Click on the image to see an example of searching Cervantes' Don Quixote

Finding bibliographies - To find bibliographies of works published by an author and critical works on an author, under keyword choose "subject keywords" and enter the author's name and the term bibliography. Click on the image to see an example of searching bibliographies about Cervantes.

Publishing    Top
Literary works are published in print in a number of ways. A famous work, such as Don Quixote, will be available in numerous editions: critical editions which contain essays and notes about the work; translations; and selected chapters published in collections of works. Editions, critical editions, and translations will be shelved together. Collections using portions of Don Quixote may be shelved in other areas, depending on the topic of the work.

1. Editions - Popular works are often published more than once. For important writers, we often have more than one edition of a work.

a. Critical Editions

i. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quijote de la Mancha. Madrid : Editorial Castalia, [2000] 1419 p.
Hesburgh Library General Collection
PQ 6323 .A1 2000

b. Translations - Important works are often translated into English.

i. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. The history of that ingenious gentleman, Don Quijote de
la Mancha translated from the Spanish by Burton Raffel. 733 p. New York : Norton, 1995.
Hesburgh Library General Collection
PQ 6329 .A2 1995

c. Short Story Anthologies - These collections often include important short stories. A keyword search in Aleph by the short story title may find a short story that you need to read.

Reference Works    Top
Reference works provide useful information about writers and literature. The information is brief and easy to read.

1. Twayne's World Authors Series - The Twayne series provides undergraduates with good introductory works on important Spanish and Latin American authors.

a. Durán, Manuel. Cervantes. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1974.
b. Williams, Raymond L. Gabriel García Márquez. Boston : Twayne, 1984 ( Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 749)

2. Literature Resource Center

a. Description: Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals. Click on the image to see a sample
of the Literature Resource Center.

i Cervantes

Click on the image to see an example of Cervantes in the Literature Resource Center.

3. Specialized Reference works - We have several works that provide greater depth about a particular genre or country.

a. Aira, César. Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos. Buenos Aires, Argentina : Emecé, 2001. 634 pages.
Hesburgh Reference (1st Floor) General Collection
PQ 7081.3 .A35 2001 Non-Circulating

Bibliography    Top
There is a long tradition of individuals publishing books of citations to works by and critical works about a particular author. We have many of these for the most important Spanish language writers.
Aleph Search Tip: Keyword SUBJECT "author's name bibliography"

1. Fernández S., Jaime Antonio. Bibliografía del Quijote por unidades narrativas y materiales de la novella. Alcalá de Henares [Spain] : Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, c1995. 1343 p.
Hesburgh Library General Collection PQ 6323 .A7 F47 1995

2. Drake, Dana B. An analytical and bibliographical guide to criticism on Don Quijote (1790-1893).
Hesburgh Library General Collection PQ 6353 .D734 1987

Electronic Resources Gateway

Click on the image to see a sample of the Electronic Resources Gateway.

Spanish Gateway Page

Click on the image to see a sample of the Spanish Gateway.

The MLA International Bibliography (coverage: 1963-)

Description: Provides indexing to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 2,000 journals and series as well as covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, etc. The most important index for Spanish and Latin American literature. Click on the image to see a sample of the MLA International Bibliography.

Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)

Description: Provides access to tables of contents for hundreds of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America; Web database with search by journal and article and browse by country. Click on the image to see a sample of the Hispanic American Periodical Index.

Bibliografía De la Literatura Española desde 1980

Description: Provides citations to publications appearing in all languages on Spanish literature, literary theory, and literary genres from books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, and conference proceedings. Click on
the image to see a sample of Bibliografía De la Literatura Española desde 1980.

Special Collections    Top
The Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, contains unique collections of Latin American and Spanish writers. We have rare books, such as a 1691 edition of the Mexican poet, Son Juana Inés de la Cruz. We also have manuscripts by important Latin American authors. You can see a description of these materials at http://hispanic.nd.edu/.