Archives : power, truth, and fiction / edited by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prescott, Andrew, editor.

Wiggins, Alison, 1974- editor.

Series:

Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature.

Oxford handbooks online.

Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Archives have never been more complex, expansive, or ubiquitous. 'Archives' is an indispensable research and reference book: a hugely helpful guide to archives in the twenty-first century. Material discussed ranges from medieval manuscripts to born-digital archival content, and art objects to state papers.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Editorial Policy

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

ANDREW PRESCOTT AND ALISON WIGGINS Introduction

Part I Conceptions

1 MICHELLE CASWELL `The Archive' is Not an Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contributions of Archival Studies

2 LOUISE CRAVEN Where and What Are the Boundaries of the Archive?

3 HARIZ HALILOVICH AND ANNE J. GILLILAND Digitality and the Reconfigured Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration

4 JAMES LOWRY The Record as Command

5 ANDREW HOSKINS New Memory and the Archive

6 NIAMH MOORE Response to `Conceptions'

Part II Frameworks

7 ANDREW PRESCOTT Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive

8 ANNA SEXTON Archival Education and Professionalism

9 LISA GITELMAN Metadata

10 RUTH AHNERT AND SEBASTIAN E. AHNERT Networks

11 MICHAEL MOSS AND DAVID THOMAS Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence

12 lVICTORIA VAN HYNING AND HEATHER WOLFE More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access

13 JANET FOSTER Response to `Frameworks'

Part III Materialities

14 ALISON WIGGINS The Materiality of Written Textual Forms

15 SIMON POPPLE Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive

16 CATHERINE RICHARDSON Doors into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections

17 JANE BIRKIN Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice

18 EIRINI GOUDAROULI Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking

19 LAURA MANDELL Response to `Materialities'

Part IV Encounters and Evolution

20 ERIC KETELAAR The Agency of Archivers

21 PAUL LIHOMA State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi

22 PAUL STROHM Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot.

23 NADINE AKKERMAN AND PETE LANGMAN Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive

24 JULIE A. FISHER Response to `Encounters and Evolution'

Part V Narrators

25 KARINA BERAS AND JARRETT MARTIN DRAKE From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition

26 RACHEL DOUGLAS Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk

27 SYLVIA FEDERICO Finding Women in the Archives of 1381

28 NORMA CLARKE On Family History and Archives

29 RUTH MACLENNAN An Artist Unpacks the Archives

30 ALAN STEWART Response to `Narrators'

Part VI Erasures and Exclusion

31 LAE'L HUGHES-WATKINS America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives

32 REBECCA KAHN Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

33 REBECCA ABBY WHITING Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records

34 EDWINA ASHIE-NIKOI, EMMANUEL ADJEI, AND MUSAH ADAMS Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives

35 KIRSTEN WELD Response to `Erasures and Exclusion'

VERNE HARRIS Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 17, 2023).

ISBN:

9780191980145

0191980145

9780192884404

0192884409

9780192884411

0192884417

OCLC:

1411311518