Subject Headings & Call numbers
When searching for works on literature written *in* Brazil, the Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) will be "Brazilian literature" (and not "Portuguese," despite the fact that it's written in Portuguese).
Library of Congress subject heading samples (click below to obtain results in the library's catalog):
Brazilian literature -- Brazil -- Alagoas (or substitute for other state)
Brazilian literature -- 20th century (or substitute for other period)
Brazilian literature -- History and criticism
Brazilian literature -- Women authors
São Paulo (Brazil) -- Civilization (or substitute for other city)
Brazil -- Economic Conditions -- 20th century
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 20th century
If you would like to visit the stacks to browse, these are the call number ranges where you will find different categories associated with Brazilian Studies. In the Hatcher Graduate Library, some books on Brazilian literature will be cataloged using the Library of Congress subject heading (LCSH) system, and others the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Here are the call number ranges for some of the categories:
LCSH:
Portuguese Language (Reference, dictionaries and histories) PC5001 - PC5498
Brazilian Literature -- General PQ9500 - PQ9698.436
(Includes primary works as well as literary histories and criticism)
Brazil -- History F2501 - F2659
Motion Pictures -- Brazil PN1993.5 .B6
Popular Music -- Brazil ML3575 .B7
Dewey:
Portuguese Language (Reference and Dictionaries) 869
Brazilian Literature 869.9
(History, criticism and works by individual authors)
Brazil -- Motion Pictures 808
Finding Books
Search the Library Catalog Search to find books available at the U-M Library. E-books are linked from catalog records.
BTW, catalog searches also identify journals (not articles), CDs, DVDs, videos, conference proceedings, microforms, U-M dissertations and more.
If you don't find what you need, try WorldCat to find books available at many other libraries world-wide. Books owned by U-M are identified, and it is easy to place an interlibrary loan request for the materials we don't own directly from the WorldCat record.
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