Call Number:

C0914

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.4 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank Graziano Working Files for Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1982-1988 (inclusive)

Creator:

Graziano, Frank, 1955-

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century and Manuscripts -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of Frank Graziano's working files for Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile (Durango, Colo.: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1987), his critical work on the Argentine poet.

A member of the faculty of Connecticut College since 1999, Frank Graziano specializes in Latin American culture and literature. His works include the edited volume Semblanza de Alejandra Pizarnik (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1992), Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality, & Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War" (Westview Press 1992), and The Lust of Seeing (Bucknell University Press, 1997), on the Uruguayan fiction writer Felisberto Hernández.

The collection consists of Graziano's working files for his book Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile (Durango, Colo.: Logbridge-Rhodes, 1987). Included are the translation and publishing agreement for the work, manuscript notes and drafts, a signed photocopy of a portrait of Pizarnik by Silvina Ocampo related correspondence with Ana Maria Becciú, Suzanne Jill Levine, and others, a mock-up of the cover of the book, and a photo negative of Pizarnik.