University of Texas at Austin

Episode 8: The Eliseo Diego Archive: A Conversation with César A. Salgado

In this episode, Daniel Arbino and Pilar Zazueta talk to César Salgado, professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin, about the archive of Cuban poet Eliseo Diego. Who was Eliseo Diego, and why is his legacy so important to contemporary Latin American culture? What kind of materials can people find in his archive? Escuchar en español.

Resources

Eliseo Diego Papers at the Benson Latin American Collection: https://txarchives.org/utlac/finding_aids/00539.xml

General information about Eliseo Diego ???

Colloquium, November 2021: Nombrar las cosas: Eliseo Diego y su legado [Naming things: Eliseo Diego and his legacy] (in Spanish): https://rialta.org/coloquio-eliseo-diego/; see also https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/events/coloquio-nombrar-las-cosas-eliseo-diego-y-su-legado-2

Orígenes magazine: https://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/collections/latin_american/caribbean/origenes.shtml

José Lezama Lima: https://lithub.com/the-life-and-times-of-iconic-cuban-novelist-jose-lezama-lima/

Paradiso (novel): https://www.amazon.com/Paradiso-Jose-Lezama-Lima/dp/156478228X

Edmund White’s review of Paradiso in New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/paradise-by-jose-lezama-lima-translated-from-the-spanish-by-gregory.html

Documentary about Lezama Lima by Adriana Bosch, Letters to Eloisa: https://azpbs.org/2021/09/voces-on-pbs-letters-to-eloisa/

César Salgado interview with Adriana Bosch: http://bit.ly/3iscyCk

Salgado on Lezama Lima, Joyce, and Orígenes, and the Boom’s connection to both Cuba and Lezama Lima: https://notevenpast.org/cesar-salgado-boom-and-bust/

José Lezama Lima Papers at the University of Miami: https://atom.library.miami.edu/chc5047;dacs?sf_culture=es

Eliseo Alberto, son of Eliseo Diego: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/260/eliseo-alberto/

La novela de mi padre, by Eliseo Alberto: https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-la-novela-de-mi-padre/9788420432564/5801 160

Episode 5: A Hemisphere of Knowledge

In this episode, Pilar Zazueta and Daniel Arbino talk about archival materials presented in the Benson online exhibit A Hemisphere of Knowledge. How do these materials help us understand knowledge production in the Americas? The hosts also discuss the example of food (tamales! cassava! chocolate!) and its relationship to ancient and contemporary wisdom and cultural production. (Image: Corazón del cacao, by Catalina Delgado-Trunk, undated. Courtesy Benson Latin American Collection.)

Resources

A Hemisphere of Knowledge: A Benson Centennial Exhibit https://exhibits.lib.utexas.edu/spotlight/hemisphere-of-knowledge

Altieri, Miguel A. Agroecology : The Science Of Sustainable Agriculture. 2d ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2018. Print.

Lonetree, Amy. Decolonizing Museums : Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Wilson, Warren M., and D. L. Dufour. “Why ‘Bitter’ Cassava? Productivity of ‘Bitter’ and ‘Sweet’ Cassava in a Tukanoan Indian Settlement in the Northwest Amazon.” Economic Botany 56.1 (2002): 49–57. Web.

Episode 3: A New Nation Bans Indigenous Languages

In this episode of the Benson at 100, historian Pilar Zazueta talks to Daniel Arbino, Head of Collection Development for the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, about an item in the Arturo Taracena Flores collection: an 1824 edict written by the newly independent government of Guatemala. What is the relevance of the document and what does it tell us about the legacies of colonial domination in Central America? Escuchar en español

Resources

Arturo Taracena Flores Collection

Biography of Dr. Demetrio Cojtí

Indigenous Languages Initiative at LLILAS Benson

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

Grandin, G., D. Levenson-Estrada, and E. Oglesby, eds. 2011. The Guatemala Reader : History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press.

LLILAS Benson. 2021. “Indigenous Languages Thrive at UT Austin: Quechua, Nahuatl, and K’iche’.” Portal online.

Pinto Soria, J. 1996. Nación, caudillismo y conflicto étnico en Guatemala (1821–1854). Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales, Escuela de Ciencia Política, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.

Romero, Sergio, and Susanna Sharpe. 2021. “In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay.” Portal online.

Nettie Lee Benson-ology

In this debut episode of The Benson at 100, historian Pilar Zazueta talks to Melissa Guy, director of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, about the life and work of librarian and historian Nettie Lee Benson. What was her role in creating a world-class collection of Latin American materials at the University of Texas? (Listen to our inaugural Spanish-language episode: Entrevista con Mauricio Tenorio.)

Related Links

Benson Latin American Collection

Nettie Lee Benson biography

Benson, N. 1994. La diputación provincial y el federalismo mexicano. 2d ed. El Colegio de México.

El Colegio de México

Daniel Cosío Villegas

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