Refiguring the Archive
Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditional...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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