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Title:
Roberto González Echevarría Collection on Severo Sarduy and Other Latin American Writers
Repository:
Manuscripts Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hh63sz770
Dates:
1951-2013
Size:
11 boxes and 4.5 linear feet
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 11, B-000859 to B-000868

Abstract

Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic and Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University. This collection contains his correspondence with Severo Sarduy and other writers and critics including among them Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Antonio Benítez Rojo, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Nancy Morejón, Octavio Paz, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Calvin Trilin, J. Wright, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Rosario Ferré, and José Donoso. Also in the collection are typescripts, audio recordings, photographs, and printed materials particularly relating to González Echevarría's work on Sarduy.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence with Severo Sarduy and other Cuban writers including Alejo Carpentier, Nancy Morejón, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Heberto Padilla, Reynaldo González, Enrique Labrador Ruiz, Miguel Barnet, Antonio Benítez Rojo, and Roberto Fernández Retamar. Correspondence with other writers includes Octavio Paz, Abel Posse, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Calvin Trilin, J. Wright, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Rosario Ferré, and José Donoso.

Included in the collection are typescripts, audio recordings, photographs, and printed materials particularly relating to González Echevarría's work on Sarduy.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series: Series 1: Correspondence, Series 2: Manuscripts, Series 3: Printed Materials, and Series 4: Photographs and Audiovisual Materials.

Collection Creator Biography:

González Echevarría, Roberto

Roberto González Echevarría was born on November 28, 1943 in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. He is the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University.

His family emigrated to the United States in 1959 at the advent of the Cuban Revolution. He received his bachelor's from the University of South Florida in 1964, a masters from Indiana University in 1966, and a doctorate from Yale in 1970. He also holds honorary doctorates from Colgate University (1987), the University of South Florida (2000), and Columbia University (2002). In 1999 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

After receiving his doctorate, González Echevarría taught at Yale and then at Cornell (1971-1977), where he was one of the first editors of the journal Diacritics. Since 1977 he has taught at Yale University, where he was awarded the first endowed chair in Spanish (R. Selden Rose). In 1991, he was named Bass Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, and in 1995, Sterling Professor, the highest-ranking university chair at Yale.

His works include Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home (1977, 1990); The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature (1985); his Cátedra editions of Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos (1985)and Sarduy's De donde son los cantantes (1993); La ruta de Severo Sarduy (1987); Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative (1990, 1998); Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (1993); The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball (1999); Crítica práctica, práctica crítica (2002); Love and the Law in Cervantes (2005); and Cuban Fiestas (2010).

He was awarded the National Humanities Medal of 2010 by President Barack Obama. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, among others, grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

Collection History

Acquisition:

Purchase, 2016 (AM 2017-64), with additions in 2017-2018 (AM 2018-73, AM 2018-102).

This collection was purchased (in part) with funds provided by the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS).

Appraisal

Nothing was removed during the 2017 processing.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez with the assistance of Isabella Litke, Ann-Elise Siden, and Fiona Bell in January 2017. Finding aid written by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez in January 2017. New accessions added to the finding aid by Kelly Bolding in May 2018.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

Credit this material:

Roberto González Echevarría Collection on Severo Sarduy and Other Latin American Writers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hh63sz770
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes 11, B-000859 to B-000868