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Gale Literary Sources integrates multiple literature databases including Literature Criticism Online and Contemporary Authors. The platform provides access to critical essays, biographical information, and primary texts. Content spans historical and contemporary literature across cultures. This resource supports literary research, criticism, and theoretical analysis.
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Recommended Web Resources

There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about Latin American literature as well as online primary texts (stories, poems and novels) and recordings of literature being read aloud. Hover your mouse over the links to find out what they contain. Have fun exploring!

Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art The ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.
El Poder de la Palabra This site includes biographies, bibliographies and text excerpts by and about writers, composers, architects and actors worldwide, including an extensive selection of outstanding Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese authors.
LANIC The Latin American network Information Center (or LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in Spanish & Portuguese From UC Santa Barbara, this is a comprehensive list of web resources on literature in Spanish and Portuguese.

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