Unarchived Histories

The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world
Herausgeber: Pandey, Gyanendra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to "madness" as describing one limit of reason, history and the archive. This book draws attention to another boundary, marked not by exile, but by the ordinary and everyday, yet trivialized or "trifling." It is the status of being exiled within - by prejudices, procedures, activities and interactions so fundamental as to not even be noticed - that marks the unarchived histories investigated in this volume. Bringing together contributions covering South Asia, North and South America, and North Africa, this innovative analysis presents novel interpretations of unfamiliar sources and insightful reconsiderations of well-known materials that lie at the centre of many current debates on history and the archive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780415717755
• ISBN-10: 0415717752
• Artikelnr.: 39037841

Autorenporträt

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, at Emory University, USA. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006) and A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste and Difference in India and the United States (2013), and editor of Subaltern Citizens and their Histories (2010) and Subalternity and Difference (2011), both published in the Routledge series 'Intersections'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Unarchived Histories: The "Mad" and the "Trifling" Part 1: The State and
its Record(s) 2. Peasant as Alibi: An Itinerary of the Archive of Colonial
Panjab 3. A Death Without Cause: Mary E. Hutchinson's Un-archived Life in
Certified Death 4. "Standard Deviations": On Archiving the Awkward Classes
in Northern Peru Part 2: Everyday as Archive 5. Feminine Ecriture, Trace
Objects and the Death of Braj 6. Brown Privilege, Black Labor: Uncovering
the Significance of Creole Women's Work 7. Unfriendly Thresholds: On
Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America Part 3:
Signs of Wonder 8. Of Kings and Gods: The Archive of Sovereignty in a
Princely State 9. Geography's Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta 10.
Un-archiving Algeria: Foucault, Derrida, and Spivak