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Here is a list of suggested Internet resources about or topics related to nineteenth century Latin American women writers. This is not a comprehensive or definitive list – it’s a work in progress. If you would like to suggest other internet resources, please send us your suggestion by clicking on the contact us tab on the menu.
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La Red Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Latinoamericanos – Perú XIX is an academic and institutional platform dedicated to the study of Peruvian social processes of the nineteenth century. From a multidisciplinary perspective, it encourages a critical dialogue on various topics such as gender, class, race, politics, the body and modernity encompassing all their discursive and visual technologies. Its main goal is to rethink the nineteenth century as a grouping of cultural systems composed of networks that go beyond the notion of national borders. RIEL-Perú XIX offers a digitized archive of documents (journalistic sources, letters, audiovisual materials, images, news and events, etc.) as well as academic papers.
http://www.amulhernaliteratura.ufsc.br/catalogo/catalogoIndex.html
Catálogo de Escritoras Brasileiras (Brazilian Women Writers Database) offers an online database of Brazilian women writers from the eighteenth through 1920. The database is in Portuguese and is divided into four sections: life, works, bibliographies and works. This database is part of a literary research project aimed at promoting research in the field. It is coordinated by Dr. Eliane Campello from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Rio Grande University).
http://webserver.rcp.net.pe/cemhal/
CEMHAL – Centro de Estudios la Mujer en la Historia de América Latina (Center for the Study of Women in Latin American History) was established in 1998 by Sara Beatriz Guardia and scholars from several universities in the United States. CEMHAL aims to promote the study of Latin American women’s history. The website provides access to the monthly journal Revista Historia de las Mujeres as well as information concerning the development of studies of history from a gender perspective.
CELACP – El Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar (Center for Literary Studies Antonio Cornejo Polar) was founded with the aim of providing information and promoting culture, education, and literary studies related to Peruvian and Latin American literature. CELACP provides one of the most important libraries specialized in Peruvian literature and related subjects. The highlights of the collection, founded by Antonio Cornejo Polar, include his own personal library collection with more than 10,000 books. In addition, the website includes access to a virtual catalog with more than 110,000 bio- bibliographical and periodical entries related to Peruvian and Latin American literature.
http://www.flora.org.pe/biblioteca.htm
Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán (Center of Peruvian Women Flora Tristán) is a feminist non-profit organization established in 1979. Their mission is to expand civil rights of women in politics and development in order to achieve gender equality and justice in general. Founded in 1983, the Flora Tristán Library provides a specialized collection of 12,000 entries from periodicals, books, theses, conference proceedings, bibliographies, CDs and videos focusing in gender issues, women and feminism.
http://www.mujeresbicentenario.com/
Comisión Del Bicentenario: Mujer e Independencia en América Latina (Bicentennial Commission: Women and Independence in Latin America) was created on October 17, 2009 with the purpose of developing the study of the independence process from a gender perspective. This website contains studies around several topics on women including, among several others, women’s perspective in the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women during the Independence movement, woman as seen by herself in this period: diaries, letters, and other writings, women and education during the Independence movement, and Pan-American relations between women leaders, activists, and writers.
http://antropologiadegenero.com/?p=2253
Estudios de Género en América Latina (Gender Studies in Latin America) seeks to create a virtual network that encourages and facilitates communication and interaction of gender studies with an emphasis on feminism in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain. Additionally, the website includes an interactive forum where users can network to facilitate the exchange and academic support, information, discussion and dissemination of related themes. Includes access to bibliographies and publications on related topics.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genderlatam/index.aspx
Gendering Latin American Independence: Women’s Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850 is a project funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in order to rethink the Independence of Latin America in terms of gender. It is sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester.
Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico (Hispanic Essay Project) aims to disseminate Hispanic thought and essay. The project was established in 1997 by José Luis Gómez-Martínez, Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Essay at the University of Georgia. Since its creation, over 400 scholars of Hispanic culture have already participated in the preparation of the material located within these pages. The colleagues collaborating in this undertaking do not receive honoraria for their contributions; and all the information presented within this website is provided to the reader free of charge as a service to promote dialogue and discourse. In English and Spanish.
http://iiege.institutos.filo.uba.ar/revista_mora.php
Revista Mora del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género (IIEGE) de la Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Virtual Libraries, Directories, Indexes, etc:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/latinamericana.html
The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States. The Latin American: Mexican and Central American Collections, offers one of the largest collections for historical research and contemporary Mexico and Central America. Although the library itself is open to anyone who wishes to use it, access to some of its more valuable materials is restricted to researchers with a demonstrated need.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/
The Benson Latin American Collection is the most comprehensive research library at the University of Texas at Austin. It specializes in materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States. It contains all kinds of materials, from the manuscripts of the sixteenth century to contemporary publications. It covers all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially the collections on Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Central America.
Center for Research Libraries – Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) is a consortium of research libraries that seeks to increase free access to information and the Latin American studies. This project focuses on improving bibliographic access to over 300 journals published in Latin America. Allows you to search the contents of the selected newspapers and find specific articles. It also offers digital images of over 75,000 pages of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches of the early 19th century to the present.
http://lal.tulane.edu/collections/rare/nineteenth
The Latin American Library at Tulane University, is among the world’s foremost collections of Latin American archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, literary criticism, cultural studies, linguistics, art, architecture, film, women’s studies, economics and many other subject areas. The collection consists of over 460,000 volumes, including over 500 current periodical subscriptions, and is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, including rare materials and pre-Hispanic codices. The library has more than 100 of manuscripts from the sixteenth to the twentieth.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/library/
The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is a free internet portal on Latin American studies. It is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC’s editorially-reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American studies content on the Internet. Information can be found in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Content can be browsed by subject (history, education, literature, etc.) or by country.
http://www.oei.es/oeivirt/bibccsoc.htm
The Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI), is an intergovernmental organization for collaborative work between Latin American countries in the fields of education, science, technology and culture in the context of global development, democracy and regional integration. This cooperative offers a section Digital Libraries in Latin America with several links to various digital libraries in Latin America.
REDIAL – Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (European Network for Information and Documentation on Latin America) is an information and research portal in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences to disseminate academic and research topics related to Latin America.
http://www.hispanismo.es/default.asp
The Hispanismo website contains three databases which store and display information on university departments of Hispanic and Latin American studies from all around the world, university teachers and researchers and associations of hispanists, with more than 14,900 entries. The website presents news, announcements, events, conferences, seminars, job offers, courses, thesis, grants and awards relating to Spanish studies from around the world. A bibliography section offers publications of interest for researchers and professionals of Hispanic and Latin American studies.
http://salalm.org/collection-development-resources/special-collections-resources/
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) has the primary mission of providing access to all materials in Latin America without format condition and the development of Latin American collections in order to support academic research. The Special Collections section provides links to several special collections of materials on and in Latin America.
http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery/?regions=latin-america-and-the-caribbean
World Digital Library (WDL) offers free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials and unique culture of libraries and archives around the world. It includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. It has a separate section for Latin America and the Caribbean.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library
The Bancroft Library de la Universidad de Berkeley en California.
The Latin American Library, Universidad de Tulane en New Orleans.
MAGAZINES:
http://www.albadeamerica.com/index.asp
Alba de America is a peer-reviewed literary magazine for gender studies in Latin America. It is open to all writers and critics whose works are in Spanish. It publishes creative works related to poetry, short stories and drama, literary criticism, literature reviews, interviews and of academic value.
http://www.lehman.edu/ciberletras/
CiberLetras, Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, is a refereed online literary journal devoted to the study of Hispanic literature and culture about in Spain and Latin America. It publishes articles, reviews, and interviews in Spanish or English. This journal is based and funded largely by Lehman College, City University of New York. The two founders and coeditors of the e-journal are Cristina Arambel-Guiñazú of Lehman College and Susana Haydu of Yale University.
http://www.udel.edu/LAS/lasp-derlas.html
The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies (DeRLAS) is a full-text, scholarly, peer- reviewed electronic journal focusing on all aspects of Latin American society, culture and history. DerLAS is a biannual publication of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Delaware. Publications are in both English and Spanish.
Decimonónica: Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica Decimonónica (Decimonónica: Journal of Nineteenth century Hispanic Cultural Production) is an online, peer-reviewed journal that highlights the cultural-literary production of nineteenth-century Hispanic world with a focus on Latin American or Spanish cultural production. It is published twice a year (winter and summer). The journal is published at the Department of Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication at Utah State University.
http://www.revistaestudios.com.ve/estudios-36/
Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Estudios: Journal of Literary and Cultural Research) is an online biannual, refereed international journal of the Department of Languages and Literature at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela. It publishes research in the field of literary and cultural studies, with special emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes original and unpublished articles, in Spanish and Portuguese.
Hispanista is the first electronic journal of Hispanic and Latin American Studies scholars in Brazil. It publishes articles, book reviews and art gallery.
http://www.filo.uba.ar/contenidos/investigacion/institutos/aiem/publi.htm
Revista Mora (Mora Journal) is a journal publication of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (IIEGE) in the Department of Philosophy and Languages at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. It publishes articles about issues related to women: the role of women in the social historical process, the symbolic representations and constructions of gender in different social discourses and artistic languages, education and women among others.
BLOGS:
http://labellalimena.blogspot.com
The blog La Bella Limeña includes topics related from customs and fashion to nineteenth century literature in Lima, Peru. This blog was created by Mónica Cárdenas.
http://historiasmujeresviajeras.blogspot.com/
The blog Mujeres Viajeras offers a space for interdisciplinary discussion where scholars of gender studies, cultural studies, history and literature can exchange theoretical perspectives, analytical and practices on women’s travel writing in Latin America. The site provides audiovisual material, articles, book reviews, interviews, announcements about events and attractions.
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