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Puerto Rican literature database is being assembled by UH faculty


Puerto Rican literature database is being assembled by UH faculty
An open access digital Puerto Rican literature database is under development by UH faculty, thanks to a hefty grant. | Chris Charleston/ The Cougar
UH is receiving a nearly $1.35 million
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a free, open-access digital portal for anyone to learn about or teach Puerto Rican literature.
Officially known as the “El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña” or “The Puerto Rican Literature Project,” it will include a database in Spanish and English of approximately 50,000 assets of photographs, manuscripts, poems, videos, and archival materials. ....

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UH receives Mellon Foundation grant to establish Puerto Rican literature database


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IMAGE: Gabriela Baeza Ventura, executive editor of Arte Público Press (APP) and co-founder of the U.S. Latino Digital Humanities program at UH, will lead the project in collaboration with a collective,.
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The University of Houston has received a nearly $1.35 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a free, open-access digital portal for anyone to learn about or teach Puerto Rican literature.
El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PRLP) includes a database in Spanish and English of approximately 50,000 assets (photographs, manuscripts, poems, videos and archival materials), a digital archive and additional resources that document the material existence and experiences of key Puerto Rican poets in the archipelago and U.S. diaspora. The data collected dates back to 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson enacted the Jones-Shafroth Act extendin ....

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