Wing mss., ca. 1984-2010.

Papers of Elizabeth Nelson Wing at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Creator: Wing, Betsy.
Title: Wing mss.
Collection No.: LMC 2486
Dates: ca. 1984-2010
Quantity:

Quantity: 6 Boxes

Quantity: 6 standard

Abstract: The Wing mss., ca. 1984-2010, consist of materials pertaining to the literary translations of Elizabeth Nelson Wing.
Location: Lilly - Stacks
Language: Materials are in English , with some French .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Biographical Note

Elizabeth Nelson Wing has an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University, and a B.A. with Honors from Bryn Mawr College. She has translated contemporary novels, poetry and non–fiction from the French by such authors as Edouard Glissant, Paule Constant, Assia Djebar, Lucie Aubrac, Didier Eribon, Hélène Cixous, Denis Hollier and Georges Dumézil. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including translation grants from the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine; the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains primarily drafts of Elizabeth Nelson Wing's translations, as well as occasional correspondence, publicity items, and other materials.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by the last name of each author.

Restrictions

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], Wing mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Acquisition Information

Acquired: 2004-2005

Collection Inventory

box 1

Series:

Allamel
box 1
"Folk Art"
box 1

Series:

Aubrac/Bieber
box 1
"Outwitting the Gestapo"

Physical Description: (6 folders)

box 1

Series:

Cerquiglini
box 1
"In Praise of the Variant"

Physical Description: 8 folders

box 1

Series:

Cixous
box 1
Correspondence
box 1
Correspondence, Clement
box 1
Correspondence, Columbia
box 1
Correspondence, Dartmouth
box 1
Correspondence, Edge Productions
box 1
Correspondence, re: le jeune nee
box 1
Essays for Boundary 2
box 1
"Promethea's Book"

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 4
General
box 4
Notes
box 4
Essays and Bibliography
box 4
Essays on

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 4
Article on
box 4
"Articles in French and Translation"
box 1

Series:

Clement and Cixous
box 1
"The Newly Born Woman," Queries
box 1

Series:

Clement
box 1
"L'opera ou la defaite des femmes" [translator's copy]
box 4

Series:

Comment
box 4
"Deux Secondes"

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 4

Series:

Constant
box 4
"Trading Secrets"

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 4
University of Nebraska Press

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 4
Correspondence
box 4
"La Fille du Gobernator"
box 4
Articles on
box 4
"White Spirit," Reviews
box 4
Gil Rye on
box 4
Reviews
box 4
"Translation/Relation"
box 4
"Montelbetti for Lyon"

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 1

Series:

Daignault
box 1
"Where Did the Subject Go?"

Series:

Djebar
box 1
"So Vast the Prison"

Physical Description: (6 folders)

box 2
"So Vast the Prison"

Physical Description: (9 folders)

box 4
"Strasbourg Nights"

Physical Description: (3 folders)

box 4
Miscellaneous
box 2

Series:

Dumezil
box 2
"Black Monk"

Physical Description: (8 folders)

box 2

Series:

Glissant
box 2
"Le Sel Noir" [translator's copy]
box 2
"Black Salt"
box 2
"Black Salt," comments by Glissant
box 2
"Black Salt"

Physical Description: (28 folders)

box 3
"Black Salt"/"Le Sel Noir"

Physical Description: (8 folders)

box 3
Glissant/O'Neill: "Les Indes"
box 3
"Le Song Rivo," Final Versions
box 3
"Poetics of Relation"

Physical Description: (9 folders)

box 3
"Recontres de Poesie"
box 3
"Steles"
box 3
Vocabulary, "Poets of Relation" and "Le Sel Noir"
box 5
"The Overseer's Cabin"

Physical Description: (11 folders)

box 5
Glossary, Drafts, Notes
box 6
"The Overseer's Cabin"

Physical Description: (16 folders)

box 3

Series:

Hollier
box 3
"Desperanto"
box 3
"Le College de Sociologie" [Translator's Copy]
box 3
Poetry–to–Z
box 3
"Unrest"

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 3

Series:

Irigaray
box 3
"Sexes and Kinships"
box 5

Series:

Lozerec'h
box 5
"Trait Pour Traits"

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 5
"Grandmother"
box 5
"Sisters"

Physical Description: (2 folders)

box 4

Series:

Montelbetti
box 4
"Western"

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 4

Series:

New York Times
box 4
"Reverie"
box 3

Series:

Quinn and Daix
box 3
"The Private Picasso"
box 3

Series:

Sand
box 3
"Lucrezia Fioriani," Preface and Foreword

Series:

Miscellaneous
box 3
Miscellaneous

Physical Description: (5 folders)

box 4
"L'auteur en verite"
box 4
"French Women's Movement"
box 6
Diskettes of Wing's work