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Latin American Reference Books: An Underappreciated Genre

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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 1980–1984: SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES. By LOROÑALIONEL V. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Pp. 239. $25.00.)
ESCRITORES DE LA DIASPORA CUBANA—CUBAN EXILE WRITERS: MANUAL BIBLIOGRAFICO—A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HANDBOOK. By MARATOSDANIEL C. and HILLMARNESBA D. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986. Pp. 391. $35.00.)
A HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Compiled by FOSTERDAVID WILLIAM. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Pp. 300. $50.00.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Richard D. Woods
Richard D. Woods*
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Trinity University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1989 , pp. 231 - 245
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Copyright © 1989 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. M. Thomas Inge, Handbook of American Popular Culture (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1970–1980).

2. Several other reference books preceded Marting's Women Writers: Meri Knaster's Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977); and Lynn Ellen Rice Cortina's Spanish American Women Writers: A Bibliographical Checklist (New York: Garland, 1983).

3. Aurora M. Ocampo de Gómez and Ernest Prado, Diccionario de escritores mexicanos (Mexico City: UNAM, 1967). This volume gives basic biographical data, but more important, it synthesizes in a few lines the authors' themes and achievements.

4. Claude Hulet, Latin American Poetry in English Translation: A Bibliography (Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1965); Granger's Index to Poetry, edited by William F. Bernhardt (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986); and Bradley Shaw, Latin American Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: New York University Press, 1976).

5. Two other works by Herbert H. Hoffman are Cuento Mexicano Index (Newport Beach, Calif.: Headway Publications, 1978) and Latin American Play Index (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983).

6. It appears that since 1980 the Area Handbook Series has changed in both name and content. Three handbooks on Latin American countries illustrate this point in that none of them cover literature (unlike the earlier editions): Cuba: A Country Study (Washington, D.C.: American University, 1987), Guatemala: A Country Study (Washington, D.C.: American University, 1984), and Mexico: A Country Study (Washington, D.C.: American University, 1985).

7. Arthur E. Gropp, A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1968); and Gropp, A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies Published in Periodicals (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976).

8. This title was published by UCLA in 1988.

9. The following individuals have received SALALM's José Toribio Medina Awards: for 1981–82, Barbara Valk for HAPI; for 1982–83, Sara de Mundo Lo for Index to Spanish-American Collective Biography; for 1983–84, Robin Price for Medical Americana in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; for 1984–85, Werner Guttentag for Bibliografía boliviana and Paula Covington for Indexed Journals: A Guide to Latin American Serials; for 1985–86, Alma Jordan and Barbara Comissiong for The English-Speaking Caribbean: A Bibliography of Bibliographies; for 1986–87, Nelly González and Margaret Fau for Bibliographic Guide to Gabriel García Márquez, 1979–1985; and for 1987–88, George Elmendorf for Bibliografía nacional nicaragüense.

10. Matías Montes Huidobro and Yara González, Bibliografía crítica de la poesía cubana (exilio 1959–1971) (New York: Plaza Mayor, 1972); and José and Roberto Fernández, Indices bibliográficos de autores cubanos (diáspora 1959–1979) (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1983).

11. Leonard Montague Harrod, The Librarians' Glossary of Terms Used in Librarianship (London: Andres Deutsch, 1971), 538.

12. The UCLA Latin American Center publishes The Hispanic American Periodical Index. For some reason, this important reference work is not mentioned in the ARBA annual, despite its being in a class similar to the Handbook and the HAHR index.

13. At times a journal will mention only books reviewed and tell nothing about books received but not reviewed. Hence it is not possible to determine what proportion of reference titles received are actually being reviewed. This is the case of the Inter-american Review of Bibliography, which in 1987 reviewed fifty-eight titles, six of which were reference.

14. See note 9.

15. Between 1980 and 1987, NEH has funded twenty-three reference books in the Latin American humanities. For a complete list, see Hispania 71, no. 2 (May 1988):331.

16. The Tinker Foundation, like NEH, has an excellent record for funding reference books. Since 1969 Tinker has funded twenty-one such titles.