Call Number:

C1457

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

9 boxes

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Diamela Eltit Papers, Box and Folder Number; Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1943-2012 (inclusive)

Creator:

Eltit, Diamela, 1949-

Abstract:

A collection of manuscript and typescript drafts of and notebooks related to Eltit's works, personal and work-related correspondence mostly from the mid-1980s to 1990s, and other miscellaneous personal and work-related papers.

Diamela Eltit is a Chilean author and performance artist. She was one of the few writers who remained in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, when she participated in the collective CADA, staging art actions against the dictatorship, and published her first novels, Lumpérica (1983) and Por la patria (1986). She is also an academic teaching literature and creative writing, and has held visiting professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Washington University at Saint Louis, University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia and, since 2007, New York University, where she holds a teaching appointment as Distinguished Global Visiting Professor and at the Creative Writing Program in Spanish. She was cultural attaché during Patricio Aylwin's government at the Chilean Embassy in Mexico. Eltit is married to Chilean academic, writer and politician Jorge Arrate.

The collection consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of and notebooks related to Eltit's works both published and unpublished, including Lumpérica (1983), Por la patria (1986), El cuarto mundo (1988), Vaca sagrada (1991), and others; personal and work-related correspondence, mostly from the mid-1980s to 1990s; and other miscellaneous papers. including newspaper clippings, prize nominations, personal papers and a fairly large number of photographs of Eltit, her family, and various other literary and political figures.

The order of materials at the time of their acquisition has been maintained.