The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how...

The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots, and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributors examine such topics as the everyday life of marginalized queer immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the archival turn.

Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Kate Clark, Ann Cvetkovich, Carolyn Dinshaw, Kate Eichhorn, Javier Fernández-Galeano, Emmett Harsin Drager, Elliot James, Marget Long, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Daniel Marshall, María Elena Martínez, Joan Nestle, Iván Ramos, David Serlin, Zeb Tortorici

Author: Daniel Marshall
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/02/2022
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781478017974

About the Author
Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University.

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.