Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive
Author | : Rachel Bryant Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : |
ISBN-10 | : 1350200379 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781350200371 |
Rating | : 4/5 (371 Downloads) |
Download or read book Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth Century Archive written by Rachel Bryant Davies and published by . This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? This landmark collection of essays will broach critical and topical questions about how the complex discourses of power involved in constructions of the nineteenth-century archive have impacted, and continue to impact, constructions of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academic confines. The essays, written from a range of disciplinary perspectives, grapple with urgent problems of how to deal with potentially sensitive nineteenth-century archival items, both within academic scholarship and in present-day public-facing institutions, which often reflect erotic, colonial and imperial, racist, sexist, violent, or elitist ideologies. Each contribution grapples with these questions from a range of perspectives: Musicology, Classics, English, History, Visual Culture, and Museums and Archives. The result is far-reaching historical excavation of archival experiences."--