Title: Refiguring the archive /
Authors: Hamilton, Carolyn.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Kluwer Academic,
Physical description: 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
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.
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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Archives--Congresses.; Archives--South Africa--Congresses.; Archives--South Africa.; South Africa--Historiography.; South Africa--History--Sources--Congresses.