Refiguring the Archive (Hardcover, 2002)

Introduction; C. Hamilton, et al. The Power of the Archive and its Limits; A. Mbembe. The Archives and the Political Imaginary; B. Peterson. Archive Fever in South Africa; J. Derrida. Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida's Archive Fever; S. van Zyl. A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive; V. Harris. Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form; A.L. Stoler. 'Picturing the Past' in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies; P. Hayes, et al. The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy; V. Harris. The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past; B. Harris. The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South: H. Soodyall, et al. `The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present': Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa; G. Reid. `Living by Fluidity': Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving; C. Hamilton. Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era; P. Mpe. Holdings: Refiguring the Archive; J. Taylor. Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts; S. Nuttall. Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist; R. Suresh Roberts. Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy; D. Bearman. Blackbirds and Black Butterflies; M. Hall. Biographical Notes. Index. Acknowledgments.