Tag: 20th century literature
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The Roque Dalton Archive at the Benson Latin American Collection
Author James Iffland, the pre-eminent biographer of Salvadoran revolutionary and writer Roque Dalton, writes about Dalton’s life and his important archive at the Benson Latin…
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(Self)Love in the Time of COVID
BY DANIEL ARBINO IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of fresh cut grass reminded me that we were in the middle of spring in Austin, Texas.1…
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From the Director
THIS IS MY LAST DIRECTOR’S LETTER for Portal, and while time feels as if it’s flown by, LLILAS Benson has achieved many milestones since my…
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Celebrating a Century
IT’S DECEMBER 1, 1920, in Mexico City. After witnessing the inauguration of President Álvaro Obregón, University of Texas Regent H.J. Lutcher Stark and Chair of…
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Staff Pick: Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname
Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname, Ernesto Cardenal Papers, 1925–2016 BY DYLAN JOY The acquisition of the Ernesto Cardenal Papers in 2016 marked a renewed focus by…
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Message from the Benson Collection Director
I AM SO PROUD to feature the Benson Centennial in Portal. While it is impossible to tell the complete story of this great library in…
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Selections from the LADI Repository
BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin…
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Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema
BY DIEGO GODOY THE YOUNG HIGINIO GRANDA stood soldierly as he faced a mansion on Colón Street in Mexico City. Blond, svelte, and possessing a…
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Staff Pick: Manifesto ao povo nordestino
Margaret Keck Collection of Brazilian Labor Movement Materials BY RYAN LYNCH As staff processed the Margaret Keck Collection, I peeked into a folder of Worker’s…
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Staff Pick: Student Activism in the Archives
BY ALBERT A. PALACIOS Uruguayan Political Propaganda, 1963–1984 There is a very serious plague that has been scourging through the country for years now, and…
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The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
BY MATTHEW BUTLER and JOHN ERARD THE ROADS TO MICHOACÁN: MATTHEW BUTLER IT IS SAID that the history of a Mexican pueblo is the history…
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Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
BY ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA BACK IN 1986, when Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz first started speaking to me in my dreams, I would…
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To and From the “Real” World: Concrete Art and Poetry in Latin America
BY JULIA DETCHON IN THE FALL OF 1945, gathered at the Buenos Aires homes of the psychoanalyst Enrique Pichón-Rivière and the photographer Grete Stern, a…