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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace - Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (Paperback)
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Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace - Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (Paperback)
Series: Life Writing
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Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have
little historical significance. Many of these materials have
disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and
relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly,
cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection
showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about
women's archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics,
Closets and Cyberspace consider a series of central questions: What
are the challenges that affect archival work about women in Canada
today? What are some of the ethical dilemmas that arise over the
course of archival research? How do researchers read and make sense
of the materials available to them? How does one approach the
shifting, unstable forms of new technologies? What principles
inform the decisions not only to research the lives of women but to
create archival deposits? The contributors focus on how a supple
research process might allow for greater engagement with unique
archival forms and critical absences in narratives of past and
present. From questions of acquisition, deposition, and
preservation to challenges related to the interpretation of
material, the contributors track at various stages how fonds are
created (or sidestepped) in response to national and other
imperatives and to feminist commitments; how archival material is
organized, restricted, accessed, and interpreted; how alternative
and immediate archives might be conceived and approached; and how
exchanges might be read when there are peculiar lacunae - missing
or fragmented documents, or gaps in communication - that then
require imaginative leaps on the part of the researcher.
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