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.
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South Africa, Cape Town, New York, Picturing the Past, University of the Witwatersrand, Judge Wilson, Reconciliation Commission, Nadine Gordimer, Jacques Derrida, Bessie Head, Jeremy Silvester, United States, Burger's Daughter, Patricia Hayes, Memoirs of the Blind, Queer Thesaurus, Ravan Press, Tristan da Cunha, Verne Harris, Adv de Jager, Alex Boraine, Aryan Nations, David Philip, David William Cohen, History Department New!
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- Writing and Being by Nadine Gordimer on 8 pages
- Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Religion and Postmodernism) by Jacques Derrida on 5 pages
- The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida on page 61, page 63, and page 77
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot on page 86, page 88, and page 137
- Journey To The Vanished City by Tudor Parfitt on page 185, page 187, and page 188
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- Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by Antoinette Burton on 14 pages
- Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule by Ann Laura Stoler in Back Matter
- Archaeology and Modernity by Julian Thomas in Back Matter
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