Refiguring the Archive

by Carolyn Hamilton (Editor), Verne Harris (Editor), Michele Pickover (Editor)

Introduction; C. Hamilton, et al. The Power of the Archive and its Limits; A. Mbembe. The Archives and the Political Imaginary; B. Peterson. Archive Fever in South Africa; J. Derrida. Psychoanalysis and the Derrida's Archive Fever; S. van Zyl. A Shaft of Derrida in the Archive; V. Harris. Colonial Archives and the Arts of On the Content in the Form; A.L. Stoler. 'Picturing the Past' in The Visual Archive and its Energies; P. Hayes, et al. The Archival A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy; V. Harris. The Archive, Public History and the Essential The TRC Reading the Past; B. Harris. The Human Genome as Some Illustrations from the H. Soodyall, et al. `The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present': Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa; G. Reid. `Living by Fluidity': Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving; C. Hamilton. Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era; P. Mpe. Refiguring the Archive; J. Taylor. Literature and the The Biography of Texts; S. Nuttall. Keeping the The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist; R. Suresh Roberts. Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy; D. Bearman. Blackbirds and Black Butterflies; M. Hall. Biographical Notes. Index. Acknowledgments.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

376 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[zack · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was really interesting, and even if only parts of it felt relevant for my own studies, it was just really worth four stars. I really enjoyed the different perspectives, which at the same time focused on the same thing. It's definitely worth a read, especially for anyone studying history, or at least archival science.

[Sidney Davis]

This book supports my African Israel Hypothesis regarding the Lemba. I will share my findings from the book when I receive it.
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