Turning archival : the life of the historical in queer studies / edited by Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici.

Date:
2022
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"Turning Archival traces the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, the contributors draw upon multidisciplinary, geopolitically diverse, and embodied accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots, and everyday repositories of historical memory. By analyzing how the many turns to the archives shape the relationship of the historical to queer forms of knowledge, evidence, and worldmaking, this book theorizes the notion of turning in performative terms as a way of understanding how meaning gets produced through encounters with archival materials. Drawing on a range of perspectives-from postcolonial, performance, trans, disability, and cultural studies-this collection examines the archival turn within queer studies and how it has fostered historical imagination and knowledge. Together, the contributors provide personal and critical reflections on the allure of the archives, on that which resists archival capture, and on what is at stake for queer and trans lives in these archival turns"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Physical description

viii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Contents

(Re)Turning to the Queer Archives / Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici -- Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics / María Elena Martínez -- Decolonial Archival Imaginaries: On Losing, Performing, and Finding Juana Aguilar / Zeb Tortorici -- Telling Tales: Sexuality, Archives, South Asia / Anjali Arondekar -- Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Archives at UCLA / Ann Cvetkovich -- Performing Queer Archives: Argentine and Spanish Policing Files for Unintended Audiences (1950s -- 1970s) / Javier Fernández-Galeano -- Looking After Mrs. G: Approaches and Methods for Reading Transsexual Clinical Case Files / Emmett Harsin Drager -- Naming Afrika's Archive "Queer Pan-Africanism" / Elliot James -- Second-hand Cultures, Ephemeral Erotics and Queer Reproduction: Notes on Collecting David Bowie Records / Daniel Marshall -- Pirates and Punks: Bootlegging, Archives, and Performance in Mexico City / Iván Ramos -- Unfixed: Materializing Disability and Queerness in Three Objects / Kate Clark and David Serlin -- An Archival Life: Unsettling Queer Immigrant Dwellings / Martin F. Manalansan -- Reassessing "The Archive" in Queer Theory / Kate Eichhorn -- Crocker Land: A Mirage in the Archive / Carolyn Dinshaw and Marget Long -- Coda: Who Were We to Do Such a Thing? Grassroots Necessities, Grassroots Dreaming: The LHA in Its Early Years / Joan Nestle.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 9781478017974
  • 147801797X