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Reference Collections

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for a quick overview of a topic
to develop vocabulary or keywords for searching
for suggestions for further sources

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Hundreds of full-text academic encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other sources for introductions to topics, definitions, or factual information. Includes subject-specific titles from art, literature, education, science, religion, history and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Overviews & Context

African Lusophone Writers
Provides biographical essays on authors of the literature of the five Portuguese-speaking African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography Series.

Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence (e-book) by Fernando Arenas
A study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa by Patrick Chabal; David Birmingham; Joshua Forrest; Malyn Newitt
Call Number: Clapp Library DT36.7 .C48 2002
Part I examines what the five Lusophone countries have in common. In Part II, each chapter by a leading specialist focuses on one country.
The Brazil Reader: History, Politics, Culture (e-book)
Duke University Press, 2019
Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present by Darlene J. Sadlier
Call Number: Clapp Library F2510 .S24 2008
Univ. of Texas Press, 2008

Modern Portugal
Clapp: DP517 .M63 1998
World Digital Library - Latin America and the Caribbean
Search over 1400 primary sources and images from Latin American countries.

Your Subject Librarian

she, her, hers

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781-283-3372
kstorz@wellesley.edu

Research & Instruction Librarian
Office: Clapp Library 218B

Subjects: Africana Studies, American Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages & Cultures, East Asian Studies, English, German & German Cultural Studies, Italian Studies, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Russian & Russian Area Studies, Spanish

Your Subject Technologist

Rebecca Darling

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781-283-2882
rdarling@wellesley.edu
Schedule an appointment.

Research and Instruction Technologist
Office: Clapp Library Room 219B