Featured Resource
SUR (1931-1992).
SUR was one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. This collection includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs and advertisements, more than 50,000 pages; a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries, correcting mistakes and inconsistencies found in the index published in the magazine; and a set of images of manuscripts from the first issue as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.
Founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), SUR is well known throughout Latin America and Europe. Over its long and distinguished history, SUR featured the writings of the leading figures in literature, philosophy, history and the plastic arts not only from Latin America, but also from North America and Western Europe. Contributors included LeCorbusier, Lacan, Sarte, and Woolf; and Argentine authors include Borges, Cortázar, Silvinia Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. Through Ocampo's social commentary and choice of contributors, she advanced an Argentine version of Liberalism at a time when most Latin Americans confronted reactionary regimes, military rule, economic chaos and demagogues.
Newspapers and Magazines Online
Latin American Literature Today has news and reviews of current Latin American writing. In English and Spanish.
Multilingual Books provides links to the websites of Spanish-language newspapers, as well as to Internet radio and television, e-books in the public domain, and much more. NOTE: commercial site, but with links to free content.
- Hispanic Life in America, Series 3 (2010-present; Newsbank)Part of the America's News database, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals
Historical Newspapers
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980Provides access to Spanish-language and bilingual Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- World Newspaper Archive (contains Latin American Newspapers)Provides access to more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.
- Independent and Revolutionary Mexican NewspapersOpen access collection comprised of over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929).
- ProQuest Historical NewspapersEnglish-language newspapers including The New York Times and the Guardian and Observer.
Also see this list of historical newspapers available with your OU 4x4.