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Unarchived Histories - The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world (Paperback)
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Unarchived Histories - The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world (Paperback)
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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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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