Valdivieso's correspondence with writers and literary scholars.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Aguirre, Margarita, 1961-1982
Alegría, Fernando, 1961-1977
Alone, 1961 September 19
Antúnez, Nemesio, 1966 July 9
Araujo, Helena, 1979
Balcells, Carmen, 1970-1973
Barquero, Efraín, 1965, 1993
Barthes, Roland, 1970 April 30
Benedetti, Mario, 1961-1964
Castillo Velasco, Fernando, 1979
Concha, Jaime, 1975
Edwards, Jorge, 1963-1964
Eltit, Diamela, 1991 October 1
Glantz, Margo, 1979-1981
Guerra-Cunningham, Lucía, 1978-1983
Letelier, Orlando, 1971 April 5
Lihn, Enrique, 1978-1979
Montecinos, Sonia, 1983-1984
Monteforte, Mario, 1967 July 8
Neruda, Pablo, 1964
Paz, Octavio, 1969-1970
Pitol, Sergio, 1963-1975
Poniatowska, Elena, 1984 May 10
Rio, Ana María del, 1991 December 1
Roa Bastos, Augusto, 1963 July 29
Rojas, Gonzalo, 1970-1983
Rojas, Manuel, 1966-1977
Valdivieso, Jaime, 1964-1993
Venturelli, José, 1962 August 3
A-G (General), undated
H-R (General), undated
S-Z (General), undated
Short essays and talks, including an interview with Octavio Paz.
Arranged alphabetically by title or first line.
- Scope and Contents
This collection contains Valdivieso's correspondence with Latin American writers and literary critics such as Fernando Alegría, Margo Glantz, Octavio Paz, Gonzalo Rojas, Manuel Rojas, and Jaime Valdivieso. Drafts of short essays and talks, including an interview with Octavio Paz, also appear in the collection.
- Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Valdivieso, Mercedes
Mercedes Valdivieso was born on March 1, 1924, in Santiago, Chile. Her literary career began in 1961 with the publication of La brecha, a foundational feminist Latin American novel. She wrote several novels and founded two journals: Adán, a Chilean men's magazine and Breakthrough, a feminist periodical. Valdivieso taught at Rice University for 20 years, retiring in 1989, and returned to Chile in 1991. Her fiction and scholarship offered new ways forward for Latin American feminism.
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Pablo Hozven Valenzuela in August 2010 (AM2011-20).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alyssa Meyers in 2010. Finding aid written by Alyssa Meyers in 2010.
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
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- Credit this material:
Mercedes Valdivieso Literary Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/m326m1806
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1