Research Guides: SPAN 5660 La representación de la experiencia urbana: Getting Started

What is a crónica and some starting sources

Oxford Bibliographies:The Chronicle
A definition and curated annotated bibliography on crónicas
Definition of Crónicas
A definition of the crónicas genre from the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature

Film and Documentaries Databases

Kanopy Streaming Service This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions that provides 12 million students and faculty with access to more than 26,000 films each year. Kanopy works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer award-winning collections including titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.

Swank Digital Campus Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside the classroom. Providing digital access to course-related films allows educators to enhance the learning experience without taking up valuable class time.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window The Films on Demand collections provide streaming video access to more than 8,000 videos and 90,000 segments for topics including Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine.

Welcome

Use this LibGuide to explore crónica resources for the SPAN 5660 course, available through University Libraries' Area Studies Collections.

Latin American Studies Sources

News Sources Focused on Latin America

Latin American Newsstream This link opens in a new window Latin American Newsstream enables users to search the most recent local, national, and regional news content with archives featuring newspapers, newswire, and news sites in active full-text format. It includes titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Latin American Newsstream provides newspapers in Spanish and Portuguese. Key newspaper titles include: El Universal (Mexico City);O Globo (Brazil);La Nación (Argentina);and El Mercurio (Chile).

General News Sources

Factiva [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window Factiva provides access to global new content covering nearly 8,000 sources, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. Coverage includes multilingual content and the option to limit keywords searches to particular regions, publications, or with reference to a particular industry. One can also access company profiles that show all the news associated with a particular company. Limit of five simultaneous users.
PressDisplay This link opens in a new window Offers current issues of newspapers in the original form from all over the world.
Global Breaking Newswires This link opens in a new window In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as growing archive of news.
Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window Access World News: Research Collection includes thousands of U.S. and global news sources. Content includes newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news videos and journalist-written blogs.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia
Communication & Mass Media Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals covered as core).

Use the links below to access Latin American cronistas

Textos Híbridos
Revista de Estudios sobre Crónica y Periodismo Narrativo
Portal de Crónica Brasileña
Narrative Journalism
Gatopardo
Anifia Crónicas
Anfibia es una revista digital de crónicas, ensayos y relatos de no ficción que trabaja con el rigor de la investigación periodística y las herramientas de la literatura. Fue creada en 2012 por la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, dentro de su programa Lectura Mundi.
Nuevos Cronistas de Indias
Review the results of the 2012 Nuevos Cronistas de Indias 2 colloquium organized by Fundación Gabriel García Márquez para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano and CONACULTA.
PERIODISMO NARRATIVO EN LATINOAMÉRICA
Cronistas Mexicanos
Asociación Nacional de Cronistas de Ciudades Mexicanas, A.C.See "Biblioteca digital" for more sources.
Periodista narrativo
Blog de periodismo, música, literatura e ideas de Roberto Herrscher
Etiqueta Negra-Julio Villanueva Chang
Martín Caparrós- Cháchara
Juan Villoro-Words without Borders
Fernanda Melchor-Letras Libres
Fundación Gabo
Letra Libres
Letras Libres es una revista mensual de crítica y creación, fundada en 1999 y heredera de la tradición y el ánimo de la revista Vuelta fundada por Octavio Paz.
Etiqueta Negra
Revista mensual, peruana, de crónicas y reportajes del mundo. Historias reales y cuentos inéditos.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online (HAPI)

Antología de crónica latinoamericana actual by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo
Call Number: https://osu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/774489919
ISBN: 9788420408958
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Mejor Que Ficción Crónicas Ejemplares by Villoro et. al
ISBN: 9786078851041
Publication Date: 2022
Enviados especiales : antología de nuevo periodismo hispanoamericano by Juan Villoro
ISBN: 9789681913038
Publication Date: 2004

Latinx Studies Sources

Latinx-Focused News Sources

Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Access World News: Research Collection includes thousands of U.S. and global news sources. Content includes newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news videos and journalist-written blogs.
Ethnic NewsWatch [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers published by and for leading American ethnic groups, and provides information on topics not covered by the mainstream press. Additionally, it provides ethnic perspectives of topics of national interest that may vary from what is presented in the mainstream press.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
Compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

General News Sources

Factiva

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format from the US.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Full Text] This link opens in a new window
19th and 20th century newspaper coverage. Search for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, or the newspaper of prominent states like Texas and Chicago where Latinx crónicas may be featured.
PressDisplay This link opens in a new window
Offers current issues of newspapers in the original form from all over the world.

Use the links below to access Latinx cronistas

Diversity and Ethnic Studies This link opens in a new window
This subscription collection includes academic eBooks related to diversity, anti-racism, ethnic studies, disability studies, gerontology & age studies, migration studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. The collection utilizes outside resources and scholarship to ensure that the collection remains up to date and aligned with current research.
Chicano Database This link opens in a new window
The Chicano Database identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature.

The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9780393080070
Publication Date: 2010-09-13

MLA Resources

MLA Style (OWL at Purdue)
An online guide to citations
FAQ about MLA Citations

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