The Seductions of The Archive: Voices Lost and Found  

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Bradley, Harriet

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 12 no. 2 (May 1999), page 107–122.
Topik: archive; history; interpretation; memory; narrative
Fulltext: 107.pdf (451.77KB)

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The archive can take many forms but all are marked by a connective sequence: archive, memory, the past, narrative. The author explores this sequence through an account of her engagement with four different types of archive, constructing a phenomenology of the archive which highlights the promises and seductions offered to the researcher. Postmodern questioning may throw in doubt older conceptions, whereby the archive is used to legitimate knowledge claims about the past of a nomological nature. However, in a context where intellectuals become interpreters rather than legislators, the role of the archive as repository of inert meanings is strengthened rather than weakened; using the archive helps us to understand the dialectical nature of the relationship between past and present and our own positioning within this.

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