Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of HistoryAntoinette Burton Duke University Press, 25 Á.¤. 2006 - 408 ˹éÒ Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are “found” there. Archive Stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. Some contributors recount their own experiences. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive—and what counts as history—as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Marilyn Booth, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Peter Fritzsche, Durba Ghosh, Laura Mayhall, Jennifer S. Milligan, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Adele Perry, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, John Randolph, Craig Robertson, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Jeff Sahadeo, Reneé Sentilles |
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... 159 peter fritzsche The Archive and the Case of the German Nation 184 john randolph On the Biography of the Bakunin Family Archive 209 laura mayhall Creating the ''Su√ragette Spirit'': British Feminism and the Contents.
... Germans she uses. Campt insists that ''the minute'' and the ''monumental'' must be in constant dialogue, arguing that such anxieties say more about canonical disciplinary notions than about the legitimacy of memory work as an archive ...
... German model in the nineteenth century.≤≥ Archive Stories is motivated, in other words, by our conviction that history is not merely a project of fact-retrieval (the kind of empiricism reflected in the csi paradigm as well as in ...
... German Nation.'' Acknowledging that ''wars trigger archives'' and that the state in Germany was as invested as any other modern nation form in utilizing the o≈cial archive as a mechanism for memorializing the logics of military and ...
... Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), 88 and √. ∞π See the introduction to Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |