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Latin American/Spanish/Chicano Linguistics and Literature

Resources for Spanish, Latin American, Chicano Linguistics & Literature

Finding Books

Library Catalog & Worldcat

Use the Library Catalog to find the locations for books in the library collections. 

See the following ADVANCED SEARCH to find BOOKS at the NMSU Library using the Primo discovery system.

Other ways to COMBINE KEYWORDS in searches: 

Bilingual      AND     Spanish

chicano        AND     literature

Mexico        AND     literatur*              AND      critic*

Cuba           AND      literatur*              AND      critic*

literatur*     AND      feminis*               AND      latin*

Try these examples of different searches:

  • Author search—anaya, rudolfo; cisneros, sandra; allende, isabel; dario, ruben; neruda, pablo; mistral, gabriela
  • Title search –  peregrinos de aztlan; casa de los espiritus; aves sin nido
  • Journal title search— latin american literary review; casa de las Americas; aztlan;  confluencia;  southwest journal of linguistics;  linguistics; bilingual review

Use WorldCat  to search more than 60 million bibliographic records for materials owned by several thousand libraries. When you locate a book (or dissertation, or other material) in Worldcat, you may request it via Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the Request It! Iconicon and filling out the online form. You may also search Open Worldcat, http://worldcat.org to locate books in libraries near you. 

Online Books

The following databases provide access to electronic books and reference materials. NOTE: If you are connecting to the internet from off-campus to use our subscription databases, you will be prompted to enter your NMSU userid and password so that your NMSU student/faculty/staff status can be validated. 

Selected Reference Books for Spanish Linguistics & Literature

These are only a few of the books related to the Spanish language and Latin American / Iberian language and literature located in Zuhl Library Reference, 1st Floor. Browse the shelves in these call number areas to find many more related titles, both in the Reference area and also in the Circulating Collection on Zuhl Library, 3rd Floor.