Jewelle Gomez papers

id
11218
origination
Gomez, Jewelle, 1948-
date statement
1968-2010
key date
1968
identifier (local_mss)
25633
org unit
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
call number
Sc MG 790
b-number
b20488489
total components
41
total series
2
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2020-09-04 23:15:30 UTC
updated
2020-10-28 22:17:04 UTC
status note
(missing)
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unitid
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unitdate
{"value"=>"1968-2010", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1968/2010"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Jewelle Gomez papers"}
physdesc
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repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
origination
{"value"=>"Gomez, Jewelle, 1948-", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Jewelle Gomez is a self-identified \"Black\", \"Native\", lesbian feminist poet and playwright. She has published nine books, including three books of poetry, a novel, a play, an essay collection, and two books of collaboration. Gomez is best known for her double Lambda Award winning novel, <span class=\"title\">The Gilda Stories</span>, and its subsequent theater adaptation, <span class=\"title\">Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story</span>. Born in 1948, Gomez was raised in a poor, Black neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, by her great-grandmother Grace, to whom she dedicated her first book of poetry, <span class=\"title\">The Lipstick Papers</span> (1980).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Jewelle Gomez papers include manuscripts, interviews, reviews, articles, speeches, and essays. The collection contains a photocopy of the original self-published book of poetry <span class=\"title\">The Lipstick Papers</span>, and versions of her play, \"Waiting for Giovanni\", which is based on James Baldwin's life right before the publication of his second and controversial novel, <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span>\" in 1956.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jewelle Gomez papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25633#c1598378'>Biographical</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1968-2010</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains papers on Gomez's published works (such as interviews and advertisements) and her personal life (such as her resume).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/25633#c1598389'>Writing</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1977-2010</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series contains manuscripts, transcripts of lectures, anthology excerpts, and article clippings for Gomez's poems, playscripts, anthologies, articles, critical essays, reviews, and speeches and lectures.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into two series: I. Biographical and II. Writing.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jewelle Gomez, 2006.</p>"}
separatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs</p>"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Steven G. Fullwood, July 2014.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p> In the Life Archive (ITLA) miscellaneous collections, Sc MG 736, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Jewelle Gomez Papers, James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library</p>"}
revisiondesc
{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2020 October 22"}
date_start
1968
keydate
1968
date_end
2010
date_inclusive_start
1968
date_inclusive_end
2010
extent_statement
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
prefercite
{"value"=>"[Item], Jewelle Gomez papers, Sc MG 790, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Jewelle Gomez is a self-identified \"Black\", \"Native\", lesbian feminist poet and playwright. She has published nine books, including three books of poetry, a novel, a play, an essay collection, and two books of collaboration. Gomez is best known for her double Lambda Award winning novel, <span class=\"title\">The Gilda Stories</span>, and its subsequent theater adaptation, <span class=\"title\">Bones and Ash: A Gilda Story</span>. Born in 1948, Gomez was raised in a poor, Black neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, by her great-grandmother Grace, to whom she dedicated her first book of poetry, <span class=\"title\">The Lipstick Papers</span> (1980). The Jewelle Gomez papers include manuscripts, interviews, reviews, articles, speeches, and essays. The collection contains a photocopy of the original self-published book of poetry <span class=\"title\">The Lipstick Papers</span>, and versions of her play, \"Waiting for Giovanni\", which is based on James Baldwin's life right before the publication of his second and controversial novel, <span class=\"title\">Giovanni's Room</span>\" in 1956.", "generated"=>true}

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