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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction

LALI
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To link to this database use: https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/lali

A comprehensive online collection of prose, theater, and poetry written by authors of Hispanic background working in the U.S. Includes text, pictures, and performance materials.

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Includes more than 100,000 pages pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. The vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. Includes nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays.

Coverage: Mostly 1960s to the Present; selected materials from 19th-century are included.

Vendor: Alexander Street Press

Producer: Alexander Street Press

Interlibrary Loan Type: Print-only Copy Permitted

Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited Simultaneous users

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