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Refiguring the Archive

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  1. Carolyn Hamilton
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  2. Verne Harris
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  3. Jane Taylor
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  4. Michele Pickover
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  5. Graeme Reid
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  6. Razia Saleh
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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-6
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  2. Introduction

    • Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Graeme Reid
    Pages 7-18

  3. The Power of the Archive and its Limits

    • Achille Mbembe
    Pages 19-27

  4. The Archives and the Political Imaginary

    • Bhekizizwe Peterson
    Pages 29-37

  5. Archive Fever

    • Jacques Derrida
    Pages 38-38

  6. Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida’s Archive Fever

    • Susan van Zyl
    Pages 39-60

  7. A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive

    • Verne Harris
    Pages 61-82

  8. Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form

    • Ann Laura Stoler
    Pages 83-102

  9. ‘Picturing the Past’ in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies

    • Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Wolfram Hartmann
    Pages 103-134

  10. The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy

    • Verne Harris
    Pages 135-160

  11. The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past

    • Brent Harris
    Pages 161-178

  12. The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South

    • Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar, Trefor Jenkins
    Pages 179-192

  13. ‘The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present’: Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa

    • Graeme Reid
    Pages 193-208

  14. ‘Living by Fluidity’: Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving

    • Carolyn Hamilton
    Pages 209-228

  15. Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era

    • Phaswane Mpe
    Pages 229-242

  16. Holdings: Refiguring the Archive

    • Jane Taylor
    Pages 243-282

  17. Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts

    • Sarah Nuttall
    Pages 283-300

  18. Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist

    • Ronald Suresh Roberts
    Pages 301-322

  19. Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy

    • David Bearman
    Pages 323-332

  20. Blackbirds and Black Butterflies

    • Martin Hall
    Pages 333-361
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About this book

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. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. 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. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Refiguring the Archive

  • Editors: Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid, Razia Saleh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0743-9Published: 31 December 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3926-0Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0570-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 368

  • Topics: Cultural Heritage, Philosophy, general, History, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Ethics

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