Turning Archival

Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University.Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.

"This book would interest those working on archival research, queer history methodologies, and cultural studies. By expanding and contracting our interpretation of archives, the book uses documentary sources to mediate the paradoxes of exploring queer lives. Every chapter is a unique opportunity to reconnect with the challenging, sometimes frustrating, but always gratifying labor of seeking queer and trans traces in documentary sources. Turning Archival can serve as an extensive toolbox with which to navigate the echoes and silences in the archives." - Patricio Simonetto (A Contracorriente) "Marshall and Tortorici masterfully compiled this work by interweaving theoretical discussions with practical examples, which invites not only scholars but also general readers to pick up the book. The editors skillfully incorporate multiple works by authors from different backgrounds to showcase the importance of archival research in uncovering and preserving stories, histories, and herstories of the LGBTQ+ community." - Drew Russell (American Archivist)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: (Re)Turning to the Queer Archives / Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici  11. Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics / MarÍa Elena MartÍnez  332. Decolonial Archival Imaginaries: On Losing, Performing, and Finding Juana Aguilar / Zeb Tortorici  633. Telling Tales: Sexuality, Archives, South Asia / Anjali Arondekar  934. Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA / Ann Cvetkovich  1115. Performing Queer Archives: Argentine and Spanish Policing Files for Unintended Audiences (1950s–1970s) / Javier FernÁndez-Galeano  1416. Looking after Mrs. G: Approaches and Methods for Reading Transsexual Clinical Case Files / Emmett Harsin Drager  1657. Naming Afrika’s Archive “Queer Pan-Africanism” / Elliott James  1858. Secondhand Cultures, Ephemeral Erotics, and Queer Reproduction: Notes on Collecting David Bowie Records / Daniel Marshall  2039. Pirates and Punks: Booklegs, Archives, and Performance in Mexico City / IvÁn A. Ramos  23310. Unfixed: Materializing Disability and Queerness in Three Objects / Kate Clark and David Serlin  25911. An Archival Life: Unsettling Queer Immigrant Dwellings / Martin F. Manalansan IV  28512. Reassessing “The Archive” in Queer Theory / Kate Eichhorn  30313. Crocker Land: A Mirage in the Archive / Carolyn Dinshaw and Marget Long  321Coda: Who Were We to Do Such a Thing? Grassroots Necessities, Grassroots Dreaming: The LHA in its Early Years / Joan Nestle  347Contributors  359Index  365