Latin America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the area and/or countries of the Americas south of the United States, as well as works dealing collectively with the Spanish-speaking countries of this area.
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Emilio Willems Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS.0504
Scope and Content
This .42 linear foot collection consists of one full Hollinger box. It includes two large manuscripts written by Emilio Willems in addition to eight of his articles, three of which are written in English, one of which is written in German and four of which are written in Portuguese. The collection contains several pieces of Willems’s reference materials including newspaper clippings from a Brazilian newspaper and Willems’s notes on works published by others in his field. Also, two full...
Dates:
1940-1967
Manuel Zapata Olivella Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS.0696
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Zapata Olivella, noted Afro-Colombian novelist, anthropologist, folklorist, physician and playwright who was known throughout Latin America as the “Dean of Black Hispanic Writers.” The collection provides a unique window on the history and society of Colombia and on people of African descent in the Americas as a whole.
Dates:
1897-2004; bulk circa 1960s-2004