| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris and Graeme Reid -- The power of the archive and it limits / Achille Mbembe -- The archives and the political imaginary / Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Archive fever in South Africa / Jacques Derrida -- Psychoanalysis and the archive: Derrida's Archive fever / Susan van Zyl -- A shaft of darkness: Derrida in the archive / Verne Harris -- Colonial archives and the arts of governance: on the content in the form / Ann Laura Stoler -- 'Picturing the past' in Namibia: the visual archive and its energies / Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester and Wolfram Hartmann -- The archival silver: a perspective on the construction of social memory in archives and the transition from apartheid to democracy / Verne Harris -- The archive, public history and the essential truth: the TRC reading the past / Brent Harris -- The human genome as archive: some illustrations from the south / Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins -- '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 -- 'Living by fluidity': oral histories, material custodies and the politics of archiving / Carolyn Hamilton -- Orality and literacy in an electronic era / Phaswane Mpe -- Holdings: refiguring the archive / Jane Taylor -- Literature and the archive: the biography of texts / Sarah Nuttall -- Keeping the self: the novelist as (self- )archivist / Ronald Suresh Roberts -- Electronic record-keeping, social memory and democracy / David Bearman -- Blackbirds and black butterflies / Martin Hall |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Based on a seminar series held in 1998, hosted by the Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand in association with four archival institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and online resource (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 3,2020) |
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Archives -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Archives -- Congresses
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Ethics.
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History.
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Regional planning.
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Humanities.
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ethics (philosophy)
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history (discipline)
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regional planning.
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Archives
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Ethics
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Humanities
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Regional planning
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History
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South Africa -- History -- Sources -- Congresses
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South Africa
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hamilton, Carolyn, editor.
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Harris, V. S., editor.
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Taylor, Jane, 1956- editor.
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Pickover, Michelè, editor.
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Reid, Graeme, editor.
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Saleh, Razia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789401005708 |
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9401005702 |
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