The majority of the collection is open for research. These boxes (B-000765, B-000766 and B-000767) are closed to the public until May 3, 2030: Correspondencia familiar; Investigación: correos electrónicos desde 1998 a 2000. This material is intellectually organized in Series 2: Correspondence, and Series 4: Family / Investigation, but physically stored in restricted boxes. The papers contain 164 3.5" floppy disks pertaining to Gelman's human rights investigations that have been digitally preserved and are pending public access.
Summary note
Juan Gelman (1930-2014) was an Argentine poet, translator, journalist, and human rights activist. His papers contain handwritten, typewritten, and printouts of his writings, correspondence, notes, research files, awards and certificates, and personal photographs. A significant portion of the papers feature analog and born-digital investigative files relating to human rights investigations and campaigns Gelman conducted with his spouse, Mara La Madrid, on the forced kidnapping and death of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, Marcelo Gelman and María Claudia García Irureta Goyena. Also included are files on his search to find his missing granddaughter, Macarena Gelman. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters; publishing contracts; documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; materials related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and magazine clippings related to the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina, as well as celebrating his return; materials related to Marcelo and Paulina, including photographs of Gelman and the family; works by other writers; and audio cassettes.
Contains handwritten, typewritten, and printout drafts and notes of Juan Gelman's writings, audiovisual materials, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed materials, awards, and analog and born-digital research and investigation files related to politics and human rights abuses in Argentina and Uruguay. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters received by Juan Gelman from colleagues, friends, and family; publishing contracts; letters, contracts, and other documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; poems, notes, articles, and other texts, many of these related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and magazine clippings related to the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina, as well as celebrating his return; personal papers of Juan Gelman and others related to Marcelo and Paulina, including photographs of Gelman and the family; poems and other works by other writers; and audio cassettes, including the music Juan Gelman listened to while writing and cassettes with interviews with Juan Gasparini, writer, former Montonero and former ESMA prisoner.
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