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Mexican and Latin American Literature:
Selected Sources

Since this page has been prepared for a specific class, no attempt has been made to be comprehensive. Explore these sources and please let me know if you find even better ones. For recommended library resources (print and/or electronic), please consult Mexican, Latin American, and Indigenous Literature: A Guide to Selected Resources.

MEXICAN LITERATURE

Cinco Decadas de Cuento Mexicano:Five Decades of Mexican Short Story
Diccionario de Escritores de Mexico: Mexican Writer's Dictionary
Horizonte de Poesia Mexicana
Mexican Genre Fiction
Mexican Poetry/Songs/Dances

Poesia Mexicana

INDIGENOUS LITERATURE

• General

  Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (University of Minnesota)
  Aztec, Maya, Inca Websites
  Indigenous Nations of Mexico
  Indigenous Peoples' Literature
  Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
  Literatura Indigena de Mexico: Prehispanic Literature of Mexico
  Literatura Prehispanica
  Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures
  National Profile of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
  Pre-Columbian Culture: Aztecs, Mayas, Olmecs
  Prehispanic Literature of Mexico

• Maya

  Maya Culture:Traditional Storyteller's Tales
  Maya Related WWW Links

  Mayan Folktales (FolkArt and Craft Exchange)

  MayaLinks: MayaPages for Native Americans
  Popol Vuh: Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life

  This is a summary and overview of a religious text (16th century).

  Popol Vuh: Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life

  Complete text (190 pages); copyrighted site.

• Aztec

  Aztec Creation Story
  Aztec Manuscripts
  Aztec Poems
  Aztec Books, Documents, Writing
  Azteca Web Page
  Nahuatl Culture
  Nahuatl Home Page
  Nahua Literature (Azteca Net)
  Náhuatl Language of the Aztecs
  Nahuatl Poetry

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

• Bibliographies

  Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  

  Spanish and Latin American Literature (Columbia University)

  Spanish and Latin American Literature (Tulane University)

• Other

  Links a Recursos Literarios

  Literature in Latin America (University of Texas, LANIC)

INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project (Dartmouth University)

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Sincronia: A Journal of Cultural Studies for Latin America

Spanish version also available.

Prepared by Laura M. Boyer, CSU Stanislaus Library
Technical assistance by Rick Dietz and Loretta Blakeley
Technical maintenance by the CSUS Library (wwwlibrary@wwwlibrary.csustan.edu)
October 1997; revised June 28, 2002