English 324 Latino/a literature  

English 324 Latino/a literature:  Loving in the War Years

Professor: Soledad Caballero

Librarian: Cynthia Burton, x2982

English Subject Guide

Created by the Reference Librarian at Pelletier Library

Search Allecat for books, ebooks, dvds and more.  No journal articles are in Allecat.

Improving Your Search Results:

• Use the name of the author as a Subject Search:  

Last Name, First Name

Alvarez Julia

Castillo, Ana

• Also look for the author as a keyword.

• Consider looking for the author in the author field:  example:  Cervantes, Lorna

• Subject Searching is complex.  There are many subject headings that could describe Latino/a authors:

Example:  This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color

Look for many variations of subject terms.  Some examples:

American literature -- Hispanic American authors

American literature -- Hispanic American women authors -- History and criticism

Hispanic American literature (Spanish) -- Women authors -- History and criticism

•   Use Truncation * to find variant forms of your words.  
•   Use the OR command to find any of your words:  love or violence or war
•   Use the AND command to find both or all of your words:  love and hispanic
•  Combine your terms using () to group like terms   
    (latina or latino or hispanic) and (author* or literature*) and love

 Modern Language Association Bibliography

What is MLA Bib?

    MLA Bibliography

contains over 2,223,181  bibliographic records for books, book chapters, journal articles, and dissertations published since 1923 in the fields of language, literature, and folklore.

Where is MLA Bib located?

     Links to MLA are on the Databases A to Z page and also on the Pellegrams: English Subject Guide Page

Tips:

• Each entry in the database includes the author name(s), the title of the work, and, for articles or book chapters, the source in which the article appears. Also included are subject terms which identify the national literature, the time period of the subject work, the genre, and many other descriptive terms assigned by the editors of MLA.
  
• Take advantage of the Advanced Search Limits.  The most "popular" limits are "English only,"  peer reviewed, and document type limits. 

• The Keyword search includes words from titles, subject headings, and notes.  Searches in the MLA are not case-sensitive: Chavez and chavez are treated the same.

• Use the truncation symbol * to find variant forms of a term:  margin*-->margin, margins, marginalization, etc. 
  

• Begin your search with keywords and examine the resulting set for desirable records.  Use the subject terms in these records to glean new search terms if needed.