Posts Tagged ‘Princeton University’
Author: Daisy Dominguez Published: March 25th, 2012
Lorenzo García Vega Papers, 1969-2008 at Princeton University Library
Princeton’s Manuscripts Division has recently added the papers of Lorenzo García Vega to its extensive collection of archives, manuscripts and correspondence by Latin American writers and intellectuals. A detailed description and finding aid is already available.
Lorenzo García Vega was born in 1926 in Jagüey Grande, in the province of Matanzas, Cuba. A poet living in exile since the late 1960s, García Vega is best known for his involvement in the literary group Orígenes. Over his lifetime, he has published nearly two dozen works of poetry and prose, and in 1952 won Cuba’s Premio Nacional de Literatura. García Vega became a polemical figure with the publication of Los años de Orígenes (1978), a book that offered an alternate view of the famed literary group than the one traditionally held by the Cuban reading public. Reviled for his representation of José Lezama Lima, the group’s founder, García Vega has since suffered a kind of double exile: the first from Cuba, and the second from the Cuban literary and intellectual milieu to which he formerly belonged. Despite this, writers such as Antonio José Ponte and Victor Fowler celebrate García Vega’s work, abundant with repetition and often fragmented or elliptical, for its innovation and literary radicalism.
Prominent within the Lorenzo García Vega Papers are twenty-nine notebooks in which García Vega recorded daily diary entries, ideas, drafts of poems, stories and correspondence, fragments of poems and stories, recollections of dreams, quotations, and responses to literature and art. The correspondence in the collection includes letters received by García Vega, dating from 1969 until 1996, though undated letters from Héctor Libertella regarding the manuscript of Devastación del Hotel San Luis (2007) may date into the 2000s. Most notable are multiple letters from Guido Llinás, Octavio Paz, and Manuel Díaz Martínez.
For a complete list of archives and correspondence by Latin American writers and intellectuals at the Princeton University Library, and links to finding aids, please go to http://firestone.princeton.edu/latinam/literarymss.php.
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez
Princeton University
Tags: archives, Cuba, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, manuscripts, Princeton University
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Author: Daisy Dominguez Published: November 15th, 2011
- Severo Sarduy (1937-1993), Untitled, no date. Mixed media on paper. 53.5 x 35.5 cm.
Thanks to the assistance of the Executive Committee for the Program in Latin American Studies, the Graphic Arts Collection of the Princeton University Library recently acquired thirty-four paintings and drawings by the novelist, critic, poet, and visual artist Severo Sarduy (1937-1993). Artifacts from his studio accompany the paintings, along with several works by his friends Roland Barthes, Jorge Camacho, and José Luis Cuevas.
View some highlights posted by Graphic Arts Curator Julie Mellby at http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2011/11/severo_sarduy.html.
Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez
Princeton University
Tags: art, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Princeton University
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Author: Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez Published: September 15th, 2011
Dear colleagues,
I recently finished putting together this guide and thought that it would be of interest to some of you:
http://libguides.princeton.edu/laec
It lists by country and subject area all of the collections of Latin American ephemera that the Princeton University Library has developed since the late 1960s (approximately 350) and links to item level finding aids or catalog records that for the most part describe in considerable detail the contents of the collections.
Saludos,
Fernando
Tags: collection guides, collections, ephemera, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, finding aids, Princeton, Princeton University
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Author: Daisy Dominguez Published: July 5th, 2011
Please visit http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0025 to search Princeton’s extensive and growing collection of Latin American posters. The posters included in this digital project were created by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and services. Even though posters produced in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela are the most abundant among the more than two thousand currently available on the site, almost every country in the region is represented. In terms of topics, some of the best represented are human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education. The Latin American Posters Collection is a component of the larger collection of Latin American ephemera that Princeton University Library has developed since the 1970s. Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions about the collection.
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez
Princeton University
Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, ephemera, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, institutional news, Mexico, posters, Princeton University, Venezuela
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Author: Daisy Dominguez Published: July 5th, 2011
I am glad to announce that all of the finding aids to our most recent collections of Latin American ephemera are now up (they correspond to Supplement VI of the Princeton University Library’s Microfilm Collection). You will find below a list with the title of every collection linked to its corresponding finding aid. Each finding aid includes a general description and an itemized inventory of the contents of the collection. Please note that all of our finding aids can be cross searched using the search interface at http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/advancedSearch.
You will also note that we included runs of a handful of stand-alone serial titles. Finding aids are not available for those.
In case that it’s of interest, I am attaching a narrative description of the overall collection that I prepared a while ago. All of the collections are available through interlibrary loan or for purchase. Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions.
Latin America
Brazil
- Brazilian Catholic Church pamphlets, III, 1935-1994 [This last one is an older collection which had not been previously distributed. A finding aid isn’t available, but Worldcat record is highly detailed.]
- Jornal dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, 1997-2008
Chile
- El Punto Final, 1998-2008
- El Siglo, 1997-2008
Colombia and Venezuela
Cuba
- El Caimán Barbudo, 1988-2007
- La Tribuna de La Habana, 1988-1989
Mexico and Central America
Peru
Uruguay
Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez
Princeton University
Tags: ephemera, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, finding aids, institutional news, Princeton University
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Author: Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez Published: May 16th, 2011
http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/pudl0025
The posters included in this digital project were created by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and services. Even though posters produced in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela are the most abundant among the more than two thousand currently available in the site, almost every country in the region is represented. In terms of topics, some of the best represented are human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education.
The Latin American Posters Collection is a component of the larger collection of Latin American ephemera that Princeton University Library has developed since the 1970s.
Tags: collections, ephemera, Princeton University
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