TRETHEWEY, NATASHA
D., 1966-
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Writings by Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey papers [bulk 1980-2013] > Writings by Trethewey
Series 2
Writings by Trethewey, 1995-2012
Boxes 12 - 18
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of writings by Trethewey from 1995-2012 and includes project proposals, drafts, manuscripts, and proofs of Trethewey's published works, Bellocq's Ophelia, Beyond Katrina, Domestic Work, Native Guard, and Thrall. Also included are poems considered for these works, but not published in the final collections. The series contains Trethewey's MFA thesis, "Dyed in the Blue," and poems published in literary magazines such as Callaloo and Waccamaw. Other writings in this series are unpublished poems, speeches from conferences, convocations, and commencements, and essays from Trethewey's time as an MFA student at the University of Massachusetts.
Writings by Trethewey can also be found in Born digital materials (Series 7).
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order by publication.
| Bellocq's Ophelia (2002) | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 | "Bellocq's Ophelia" |
| 12 | 2 | "Countess P--'s Advice for New Girls" |
| 12 | 3 | Design samples |
| 12 | 4 | "Letters from Storyville" |
| 12 | 5 | Manuscripts |
| 12 | 6 | "Photograph of a Bawd Drinking Raleigh Rye" |
| 12 | 7 | Poems considered |
| 12 | 8 | Project proposal |
| 12 | 9 | Proofs |
| 12 | 10 | Research |
| 12 | 11 | "Storyville Diary" |
| 12 | 12 | Unpublished drafts |
| 12 | 13 | "Vignette" |
| Beyond Katrina (2010) | ||
| 12 | 14 | "Before Katrina" |
| 12 | 15 | "Congregation" |
| 12 | 16 | "Liturgy" |
| 12 | 17 | Manuscripts |
| 12 | 18 | "The Past Remix"/"High Rollers" |
| 12 | 19 | Proofs [1 of 2] |
| 13 | 1 | Proofs [2 of 2] |
| 13 | 2 | Proposal |
| 13 | 3 | Research |
| 13 | 4 | "Two: 2009" |
| 13 | 5 | "Two--Past"/"Before" |
| Domestic Work (2000) | ||
| 13 | 6 | "Amateur Fighter" |
| 13 | 7 | Design samples |
| 13 | 8 | "Gesture of a Woman in Process" |
| 13 | 9 | "Limen" |
| 13 | 10 | Manuscript |
| 13 | 11 | Proofs |
| Native Guard (2006) | ||
| 13 | 12 | "After Your Death" |
| 13 | 13 | "At Dusk" |
| 13 | 14 | "Blonde" |
| 13 | 15 | "Elegy for the Native Guards" |
| 13 | 16 | Front matter |
| 13 | 17 | "Genus Narcissus" |
| 13 | 18 | "Incident" |
| 13 | 19 | "Letter" |
| 13 | 20 | Manuscripts [1 of 5] |
| 13 | 21 | Manuscripts [2 of 5] |
| 14 | 1 | Manuscripts [3 of 5] |
| 14 | 2 | Manuscripts [4 of 5] |
| 14 | 3 | Manuscripts [5 of 5] |
| 14 | 4 | "Miscegenation" |
| 14 | 5 | "Monument" |
| 14 | 6 | "Myth" |
| 14 | 7 | "Native Guard" |
| 14 | 8 | "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971" |
| 14 | 9 | "Pilgrimage" |
| 14 | 10 | Poems considered |
| 14 | 11 | Project proposals |
| 14 | 12 | Proofs [1 of 2] |
| 14 | 13 | Proofs [2 of 2] |
| 14 | 14 | Providence" |
| 14 | 15 | Research |
| 14 | 16 | "Scenes from a Documentary History of Mississippi" |
| 14 | 17 | "South" |
| 14 | 18 | "The Southern Crescent" |
| 14 | 19 | "Southern Pastoral" |
| 14 | 20 | "Theories of Time and Space" |
| 14 | 21 | "What is Evidence" |
| 14 | 22 | "What the Body Can Say" |
| Thrall (2012) | ||
| 14 | 23 | "The Americans" |
| 14 | 24 | "Artifact" |
| 15 | 1 | "Bird in the House" |
| 15 | 2 | "Calling" |
| 15 | 3 | "De Español y Negra; Mulata" |
| 15 | 4 | "Elegy" |
| 15 | 5 | "Enlightenment" |
| 15 | 6 | Front and back matter |
| 15 | 7 | "Geography" |
| 15 | 8 | "How the Past Comes Back" |
| 15 | 9 | "Illumination" |
| 15 | 10 | "Knowledge" |
| 15 | 11 | "Mano Prieta" |
| 15 | 12 | Manuscripts [1 of 7] |
| 15 | 13 | Manuscripts [2 of 7] |
| 15 | 14 | Manuscripts [3 of 7] |
| 15 | 15 | Manuscripts [4 of 7] |
| 15 | 16 | Manuscripts [5 of 7] |
| 16 | 1 | Manuscripts [6 of 7] |
| 16 | 2 | Manuscripts [7 of 7] |
| 16 | 4 | "Mythology" |
| 16 | 5 | "On Captivity" |
| 16 | 6 | Poems considered |
| 16 | 7 | Proofs [1 of 2] |
| 16 | 8 | Proofs [2 of 2] |
| 16 | 9 | Research |
| 16 | 10 | "Rotation" |
| 16 | 11 | "Taxonomy" |
| 17 | 1 | "Thrall" |
| 17 | 2 | "Torna Atrás" |
| 17 | 3 | "Vespertina Cognitio" |
| Other published poems | ||
| 17 | 4 | "Letter Home" and "Vignette" from Callaloo |
| 17 | 5 | Proofs of "Native Guard" for Callaloo |
| 17 | 6 | "Thrall" from ecotone |
| 17 | 7 | "Vespertina Cognitio" from Waccamaw |
| Unpublished poems | ||
| 17 | 8 | "Afterimage" |
| 17 | 9 | "Alto" |
| 17 | 10 | "Among the Living" |
| 17 | 11 | "Anchor" |
| 17 | 12 | "Another Country" |
| 17 | 13 | "Anthem for James Weldon Johnson |
| 17 | 14 | "Call Back" from MFA thesis |
| 17 | 15 | "Camera Obscura" |
| 17 | 16 | "Cardinal |
| 17 | 17 | "Exile" |
| 17 | 18 | "The Four Corners |
| 17 | 19 | "Guitar Lesson" |
| 17 | 20 | "History" |
| 17 | 21 | "I Dream I Star in a Film in which I Play a Caricature of Myself" |
| 17 | 22 | "In Cyprus" |
| 17 | 23 | "Invocation, 1926" |
| 17 | 24 | "Letter to Ms. Morrison, With Thanks" |
| 17 | 25 | "My Father, Dreaming" |
| 17 | 26 | "Mythmaking" |
| 17 | 27 | "The Napoleon House" |
| 17 | 28 | "Octaroon Girl" |
| 17 | 29 | "Ode to the Lost Cause" |
| 17 | 30 | "On Anxiety" |
| 17 | 31 | "Parapraxis" |
| 17 | 32 | "Pintemento" |
| 17 | 33 | "Repentance" |
| 17 | 34 | "Resurrection" |
| 17 | 35 | "Seasonal" |
| 17 | 36 | "Seizure" |
| 17 | 37 | "Target" |
| 17 | 38 | "Thirty-five" |
| 17 | 39 | "Trivia" |
| 17 | 40 | "Voyeur" |
| 17 | 41 | "War Movie" |
| Prose and other writings | ||
| 17 | 42 | 20th Anniversary Celebration of The Center for Women at Emory, keynote address by Natasha Trethewey, September 28, 2012 |
| 17 | 43 | Association of Writers and Writing Programs paper, 2003 |
| 17 | 44 | Delta State University Commencement Address, notes, December 8, 2007 |
| 17 | 45 | Dyed in the Blue," MFA thesis, University of Massachusetts, 1995 |
| 17 | 46 | Emory Convocation Faculty Address, 28 August 2012 |
| 17 | 47 | "The Grotesque (Female) Body and Social Change" |
| 17 | 48 | Hollins University Commencement Address, 23 May 2010 |
| 17 | 49 | Inauguration of Drew Gilpin Faust, 28th President of Harvard University, introduction of Toni Morrison by Natasha Trethewey, October 12, 2007 |
| 17 | 50 | "In Search of History: Finding Sherley Anne Williams in Callaloo" |
| 17 | 51 | "Interchange: Genres of History" from The Journal of American History, 15 June, 2004 |
| 17 | 52 | "June 1863," lyrics, March 24, 2009 [music by James Ballard] |
| 17 | 53 | Keynote for Exile, Segregation, and the Langauge and Politics of Identity Conference, 12-13 February 2004 |
| 17 | 54 | "Liturgy: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast," 2008 |
| 17 | 55 | Notes and fragments |
| 17 | 56 | Notes for "About Cornelius Eady" for Ploughshares |
| 18 | 1 | "Notes of Departure: Uncovering the Reality Behind Bellocq's Storyville Portraits" |
| 18 | 2 | "On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South" |
| 18 | 3 | Personal Statement for Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of the Radcliffe College Fellowship Program, 2000-2001 |
| 18 | 4 | Poetry reading scripts, circa 2006-2012 |
| 18 | 5 | "Remembering the Hot Comb: Ritual, Community, and Identity in Childhood Mississippi," 1995 |
| 18 | 6 | Script for Bellocq's Ophelia adaptation |
| 18 | 7 | Unidentified draft |
| 18 | 8 | Unidentified research materials |
| 18 | 9 | Unidentified speech |
| 18 | 10 | "'Why I Write': Poetry, History, and Social Justice" |
| 18 | 11 | "Writing on the Wall" |
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