Here are five approaches to researching works of literature:
Can you think of others?
At Words Without Borders Campus you'll find fiction, poetry, and essays from around the world, along with resources for understanding it, ideas for teaching it, and suggestions for further exploration. Most of the literature presented comes from the online magazine Words Without Borders.
Type au: to search for works by a particular author.
au:Alvarez,Julia
Authors may also be subjects of criticism and interpretation. Type su: to search by subjects.
su:Alvarez, Julia -- Criticism and interpretation.
Other suggested subject terms to use in DELCAT and databases below:
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Refugees
Migrant labor
Transients and migrants
Migration, Internal
Return migration
International migration
Combine these terms with names of countries (e.g., Dominican Republic), groups of people (e.g., Dominicans), genres (e.g., fiction or history), or subtopics (e.g., psychology or social aspects) to make your search more specific.
For deeper coverage of a subject area, try searching in a subject-specific database like those listed below.
4 concurrent users allowed.
Part of the Literature Online database.
CIAO is divided into the following categories: working papers, conference proceedings, journals (i.e., abstracts of journal articles), books, policy briefs, economic indicators, links & resources, schedule of events, & maps & country data.
To find other subject databases, or to view the entire list of the library's databases, click here to visit the library's Databases page.
Google Scholar can be useful for finding scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports when you're having trouble choosing the right terms to find what you need in subject databases. As you know from using Google, you will get some fairly relevant results no matter what you enter into the search box.