Turning archival
This collection traces the rise of “the archive” as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to LGBTQ scholarship, politics and everyday life, the contributions draw upon accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots and everyday repositories of historical memory. Topics included are the everyday life of marginalized queer immigrants in New York City as an archive; secondhand vinyl record collecting and punk bootlegs; the self-archiving practices of grassroots lesbians; and the decolonial potential of absences and gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala.
- Creator
- Marshall, Daniel > (ed.)
- Tortorici, Zeb > (ed.)