Title | Refiguring the Archive [electronic resource] / edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid, Razia Saleh |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8 |
Descript | 368 p. online resource |
The Power of the Archive and its Limits -- The Archives and the Political Imaginary -- Archive Fever in South Africa -- Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derridaโs Archive Fever -- A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive -- Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form -- โPicturing the Pastโ in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies -- The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy -- The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past -- The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South -- โThe History of the Past is the Trust of the Presentโ: Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa -- โLiving by Fluidityโ: Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving -- Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era -- Holdings: Refiguring the Archive -- Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts -- Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist -- Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy -- Blackbirds and Black Butterflies -- Biographical Notes -- Acknowledgements