Biblioteca Americana
Self-portrait
Con la creación de su Biblioteca Americana, la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes pretende contribuir al conocimiento de la compleja realidad cultural, política, social, literaria de un continente fascinante.
El usuario de esta Biblioteca Americana encontrará en ella una gran cantidad de documentos textuales y audiovisuales que le permitirán acercarse, entre otros, a espacios tan diversos como la literatura gauchesca, la cultura hispana en Estados Unidos o la creación brasileña; al mundo barroco de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o a la realidad más contemporánea en la poesía de Mario Benedetti; a destacados acervos como la Biblioteca José Toribio Medina de Chile, los Fondos reservados de la Biblioteca Nacional de México o los Manuscritos de América en las Colecciones Reales; al pensamiento del libertador Bolívar o al de los grandes nombres del exilio español en América.
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/seccion/ba/
Description
The American Library (Biblioteca Americana) was created with the purpose of advertising the broad and diverse spectrum of literary work produced in Latin American countries. It was established in the year 2000 as part of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library, a project by the University of Alicante, Santander Bank and the Botín Foundation, under a public-private management model.
It is comprised of contributions from different countries institutions, such as libraries, cultural institutes and historical archives. Each participating country manages an access portal to visual, audio and literary contents by the country’s most representative authors. Participating countries include Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The American Library provides links to institutional portals, such as the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo); links to portals with access to collections owned by Colegio de México and to the Royal Collections manuscripts on America; links to the Ibero-American University (Universidad Iberoamericana) and National Libraries of Peru, Chile, Argentina and Honduras.
Thematic portals showcase collections organized by historical, political, and social themes, as well as by literary periods. Among them, you can find: the Exile Library (Biblioteca del Exilio), Hispanic-American Constitutions, colonial epics, Gaucho literature, and the Chicano culture portal. You can also peruse libraries dedicated to authors from different periods, such as Mario Benedetti, Adolfo Bioy Casares or Bartolomé de las Casas.
Links
URL: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/seccion/ba/
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150730170155/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/seccion/ba/
Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Virtual_Miguel_de_Cervantes
