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Hispanic Heritage Month: Film & Literature

October 2, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Throughout the month we will be featuring resources available from the SMCM Library. For more info check out hispanicheritagemonth.gov

For the final post in our National Hispanic Heritage Month series, we’re featuring a few great books and films available from the SMCM Library. You can always find more excellent books and films by Hispanic writers and filmmakers by searching the SMCM Library Catalog.

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This Is How You Lose Her, Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz’s collection of short stories focusing on love in it’s myriad forms was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. This Is How You Lose Her comes preloaded on library Kindles, available for 2 week check-outs at the circulation desk.

If you enjoy Díaz’s short stories, check out his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, available in a glorious, physical print copy in the SMCM Library Popular Reading section.

 

pans_labyrinth_coverFilms

Looking for an interesting look at the lives of everyday people? Americano As Apple Pie is a two-part documentary series looking at Latino culture in the United States, from big cities to small towns. The series looks at the Latino influence on American culture from entertainment to politics.

If you prefer fantasy, check out Pan’s Labyrinth, Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 dark Spanish-language fairy tale. Set in Spain after the Spanish Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth uses stunning visual effects to tell a story of loss, rebellion, and empowerment that blurs the lines between what is real and what is imagined.

Both Americano As Apple Pie and Pan’s Labyrinth are available in the SMCM Library DVD collection for three-day check outs.

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Hispanic Heritage Month: HAPI

September 25, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Throughout the month we will be featuring resources available from the SMCM Library. For more info check out hispanicheritagemonth.gov

Suramérica by Carlos Adampol Galindo (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/36CEAz

Suramérica by Carlos Adampol Galindo (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/36CEAz

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index), a non-profit project of the Latin American Institute at UCLA, provides access to hundreds of thousands of article citations.

Topics range from political, economic, social issues, to the arts and humanities from journals published around the world focusing on issues effecting Latin America and the Caribbean.

HAPI  has over 300,000 citations with over 170,000 links to full text from over 675 journals going back to the 1970s.

HAPI is available through the SMCM Library Databases page libguides.smcm.edu/databases

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Journal of Latino / Latin American Studies

September 18, 2015 by Amanda VerMeulen

September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Throughout the month we will be featuring resources available from the SMCM Library. For more info check out hispanicheritagemonth.gov

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“Mural panoramico” by Farisori; Photo of “Presencia de América Latina” by Jorge González Camarena, at Universidad de Concepción, Chile (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Do you know JOLLAS? The Journal of Latino / Latin American Studies, co-edited by Dr. Jonathan Santo and Dr. Ramón Guerra at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, focused on, you guessed it, issues related to the Latino experience in the U.S. and throughout Latin America. Each issue is centered on a theme, creating a diversity of scholarship across multiple topics and and areas of study. You can read about everything from Feminist Chicana research methodology, to self-esteem in Latino adolescents, to socio-emotional development in Latin America.

Access to JOLLAS is available through the SocIndex with Full Text database, from 2003 to the most current issue (Sept. 2015).

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