ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection
Collection Number
SC 202
OCLC Number
122687666
Creator
Jorge Carrera Andrade, 1903-1973
Provenance
The collection was purchased from Jorge Carrera Andrade in 1969 at the suggestion
of Dr. Enrique Ojeda.
Extent, Scope, and Content Note
The Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection is comprised of 10.8 cubic ft. of materials,
primarily in Spanish and produced between 1923 and 1970. Contents include: autobiographical
materials; typescripts; corrected holographs; personal and business letters; postcards;
telegrams; newspaper and literary journal reviews; news notes; publishers and press
notices; advertisements; and book dust jackets.
Arrangement and Processing Note
Files arranged alphabetically by subject. Processed by Kristen J. Nyitray, June 2008.
Updated April 2019.
Series 1: Correspondence (boxes 1-19): Jorge Carrera Andrade bound his personal and business letters, postcards, and telegrams from friends, poets, admirers, editors, translators and publishers in nine volumes. These volumes have been disbound and the letters have been sorted alphabetically, then chronologically.
Series 2: Manuscripts (boxes 20-21): autobiographical materials, typescripts, and corrected holographs.
Series 3: Albums (boxes 22-35): newspaper and literary journal reviews, news notes, publishers and press notices, advertisements, and dust jackets documenting Jorge Carrera Andrade's literary, diplomatic, and political careers. Many of the clippings are unidentified and undated, and are primarily in Spanish, with some others in French, English, German, Italian, and Czech. 17 bound volumes (circa 1923-1967).
Language(s)
Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, and Czech.
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation
[Item], [Box], Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection, Special Collections and University
Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.
Historical Note
Poet, essayist, and diplomat Jorge Carrera Andrade was born in Quito, Ecuador, on
September 18, 1902. He was the son of Abelardo Carrera Andrade and Carmen Vaca Andrade.
Carrera Andrade was educated at Juan Montalvo Normal Institute, Mejía National Institute,
and Faculty of Law of the University of Quito, Ecuador; Faculty of Philosophy and
Letters, University of Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence, France.
He earned a bachelor's degree and licentiate in social sciences.
As both a diplomat in Ecuador's foreign service and an intermittent expatriate living in exile, Jorge Carrera Andrade traveled extensively throughout the world, recording his observations in numerous essays. An eminent poet as well, Carrera Andrade composed brief, imagistic poems noted for a sympathetic understanding of the human condition. He also translated the works of other writers into Spanish and adapted Japanese haiku into Spanish in a form called micrograma. He taught at Stony Brook University in the Department of Romance Languages in 1970 and 1972. Jorge Carrera Andrade died on November 7, 1978. (Source - Gale Literary Databases: Contemporary Authors)
Subjects
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Latin American literature -- 20th century.
American literature.
American poetry.
Ecuadorian poetry.
Latin American literature.
Ecuadorian poetry -- 20th century.
INVENTORY
Collection Inventory for the Jorge Carrera Andrade Collection