Subject Guide: Literature

Comprehensive list of mood-altering stories

Guide to nearly 800 award-winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature.

Presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness-defined in terms of race or ethnicity-forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege.

Reading guide and selection tool for 12,000 fiction and nonfiction teen titles published from 2001 to 2003

Covers over 14,000 titles of some classics, but mostly published between late 1999 and 2003.

Examines the continuing impact of Greek and Roman drama, literature and art on the cultures of societies that have emerged from colonial domination.

Guide to the creative output of the U.S. in the postwar period after the Vietnam War.

The author takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus that explores the relationship between the two cultures from his own and others' experiences.

Covers poetry from over 40 countries and the history of poetry from antiquity to the 21st century.

Focuses on the trends and movements that characterized the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with incisive discussions of representative works from each era.

Surveys literature written by Hispanic peoples of the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Examines the span of Spanish and Latin American arts.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the world, with substantial, accessible, articles by specialists and world-ranking experts.

Provides an overview of the main themes, issues, and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.

Presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the 16th and 20th centuries.

Presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the 16th and 20th centuries.

Traces the literary history of Mexico, Central America, the island republics from colonial times to the present.

Highlights the lives and extraordinary careers of Latina authors, as well as the social and political issues their works address.

Charts the history and confluence of literature and film.

Profiles the censorship of many essential works of literature.

Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of 20th-century writers.

Guide to selecting high-quality examples of multicultural literature.

Reviews and evaluates picturebooks with a multicultural theme for grades K-4.

Explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths.

Compares the writings of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

Analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world.

Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work's historical background, a literary analysis, and suggestions for further reading.

Presents critical annotations for 1300 books published between 2000 and 2004, including reference, nonfiction, and fiction.

Explores magical realism as a common denominator in the literature of the Americas.

Captures and examines sociological insights in 32 essays that discuss scholars and writers not normally associated with any sociological school of thought.

Highlights some 330 major Spanish American novelists and poets.

Presents a vibrant, complex picture of the role that religion plays in shaping and defining Latino/a identity through literature.

Helps students and researchers make connections between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves.

Sshows how both modernist and postcolonial writers borrowed metaphors and concepts from geography, advancing theories of space, culture, and community within the formal structures of literary narrative.