Refiguring the Archive

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-03
Mått:178 x 254 x 21 mm
Vikt:706 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789401039260

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Innehållsförteckning

The Power of the Archive and its Limits.- The Archives and the Political Imaginary.- Archive Fever in South Africa.- Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida’s Archive Fever.- A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive.- Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form.- ‘Picturing the Past’ 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.- ‘The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present’: Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa.- ‘Living by Fluidity’: 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.