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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
"IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES"
Research Links

Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
Selected Articles
Selected Web Sites
Finding Books


Magazine & Journal Databases (to access articles):

Gale History Resource Center- on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Reference articles, primary documents, and full-text journal articles covering all aspects of U.S. and modern world history.

  • Select History Resource CenterU.S. or World or U.S. & World from the "Search in" pull-down menu
  • Enter search word(s) and click the Search button.
  • If your search finds little or no results, use Advanced search mode and select to search in Full-text of documents
  • At results page, additional articles may be available by clicking on the article type tabs--"Periodicals", "Primary Sources", "Maps & Images" & "Reference Materials" at the top of the page.
  • Click on the title of an article to display the full text of the article. 

Gale-InfoTrac PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers; excellent set of general periodical databases. 

o        To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.

o        PLEASE NOTE: When search results are first displayed, only magazine articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic Journals” tab to display journal articles "Newstab to display all news articles; click on the "Referencetab to display reference articles.

Ethnic Newswatch - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from about 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, in English and Spanish.

Gale Literature Resource Center - on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
High quality full-text literary criticism & biographical info on authors.

Gale Biography Resource Center - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of biographical articles on famous people.

 


Recommended Articles:

All of the articles below are available from on-campus or off-campus w/ library card

Biographical articles on Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (from Gale Biography Resource Center)

·        "Life with the Generalissimo". by Charles D. McIntosh. American Heritage, Nov 1997 v48 n7 p32(4).

Articles on Dominican Republic history (from Gale History Resource Center)

·         "Dominican Republic". Dictionary of American History. 7 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.

Articles on In the Time of the Butterflies (from Gale Literature Resource Center)

·        Overview of In the Time of the Butterflies. Novels for Students, Volume 9, Gale Group, 2000.

·        Overview of In the Time of the Butterflies. in Literature Resource Center, Gale Research, 1999.

·        Overview of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Darren Felty. Novels for Students, Vol. 9, The Gale Group, 2000.

·        Review of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Elizabeth Martinez. The Progressive, July 1995, p. 39.

·        Review of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Kay Pritchett. World Literature Today, Autumn 1995 v69 n4 p789.

·        Review of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Ruth Behar. The Women's Review of Books, May 1995 v12 n8 p6.

·        Review of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Barbara Mujica. Americas (English Edition), March-April 1995 v47 n2 p60(1).

·        Review of In the Time of the Butterflies. by Janet Jones Hampton. Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Spring 1995 v10 n2 p6.

·        "Talking back to El Jefe: genre, polyphony, and dialogic resistance in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies". by Charlotte Rich, MELUS, Winter 2002 v27 i4 p165+.

Julia Alvarez: biographical articles (from Gale Biography Resource Center)

·        “Julia Alvarez: Real Flights OF Imagination.” by Ben Jacques. Americas (English Edition), Jan 2001 v53 i1 p22.



Recommended Web Sites:

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Library of Congress Country Study: See especially: "The Post-Trujillo Era"

Dominican Republic (from Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive)

Dominican Republic (links from LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center)

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

 

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

  • Type search words in the first search box (e.g. Dominican Republic) & click the Submit button.
  • The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system
  • To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.
  • Once you find one book on your topic, click on the Subjects for that book to find other books on the same or related subjects

 

 

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last revised: 10-4-06
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA