Antoinette burton department of history, university of illinois 309 gregory hall 810 s. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by burton, antoinette isbn. Antoinette burton, professor of history antoinette burton snippet view 2005 archive stories. Antoinette burton introduction archive fever, archive stories larchivel est difficile dans sa materialite. Janaki majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the indian national congress. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india new york. In her introduction to this collection, antoinette burton poses a growing. Free download, borrow, and streaming internet archive. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history duke university press, 2005. A third genre of proposals could look at what antoinette burton has called archive stories, experiential descriptions of archival encounters that have illuminated or obscured certain aspects of the working class past. Gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories, in philippa levine, ed. Possession, dispossession, and history in antoinette burton, ed, archive stories.
Britain and india durba ghosh 27 without the past there is no future. Department of ethnic studies, social science building 201 email is the best way to contact me. Bastian professor of global and transnational studies. See also antoinette burton, dwelling in the archive.
Antoinette burton notes that an archive might be a previously unexamined private collection of family histories. Every day thousands of users submit information to us about which programs they use to open specific types of files. The archive as a political and emotional space is an idea i now wont be able to avoid. Britain and india durba ghosh without the past there is no future.
Fact, fictions, and the writing of history durham, nc. A number of the essays question what counts as an archiveand what counts as historyas they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. It would be hard to write any account of postcolonial africa from a purely empiricist viewpoint, and few would deny what antoinette burton calls the complex processes of selection, interpretation, and even creative invention that archival work entails. The trouble with empire hardcover antoinette burton. The introduction by compiler antoinette burton gives the keys to the map of stories. This book is also electronically available in the ceu library. See also the what is the directory structure for the texts. The archivist 1998 in an era when the echo chambers of cyberspace have given a. Oxford university press, 2003 ch 1 and 2 phil deloria.
Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india new york, 2003. The oxford historyof the british empire companion series wm. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india and at the heart of the empire. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on.
I am currently working on a bloomsbury series on the cultures of western imperialism and a duke university press series on history teaching. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the first angloafghan wars. Antoinette burton is professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign, where she is the catherine c. Moving across the one hundred years between the first angloafghan war and gandhis salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes. Burton unhesitatingly locates not only what her research shows, but also why it matters at the instant of publication. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history by antoinette burton, durba ghosh, jeff sahadeo, craig robertson, tony ballantyne isbn. I especially loved the essays on the us passport and the french national archives, as well as the. The man who salvaged french jewish history in the wake of the holocaust by lisa moses leff. It is an excellent text filled with the experiences of 15 researchers of archival materials. For a complex meditation on the limits of archival recovery, see arondekar, anjali, for the record. As jeffrey cox notes in frustration, the missions recruited large numbers of women assistants of various kinds, classified under.
Antoinette burton introduction archive fever, archive stories l archive est difficile clans sa materialite. Archival research in africa african affairs oxford. History 309 gregory hall 810 s wright mc 466 urbana, il 61801. The archive as contact zone 25 national narratives and the politics of miscegenation. Dwelling in the archive, which extends antoinette burtons previous. Archive fever, archive stories antoinette burton 1 part i. The iraq memory foundation and the baath party archive. Introduction antoinette burton has noted that many of us have archive stories. Antoinette burton is the author of archive stories 3. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Antoinette burton gathered seventeen scholars to reflect on archives as. Gens 5004 department of gender studies fall ay 201920.
Her unpublished family history 1935 stages the story of her parents. Gender in the making of imperial and colonial histories antoinette burton 281 index 295. This article first broadly describes the ways in which historians have engaged with the asylum archive, a. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works.
The idea behind the achive poject is inspied by the histoian antoinette utons collection of essays, archive stories. Antoinette burton editor, tony ballantyne contributor. Newberry consortium in american indian studies graduate. Durba ghosh, national narratives and the politics of miscegenation. Women writing house, home, and history in late colonial india oxford. Still others may want to explore the role of the archive itself in the. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history antoinette burton, durba ghosh, jeff sahadeo, craig robertson and tony ballantyne. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actu. Archive stories download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. My grandfather, culture, and sports in indians in unexpected places university press of. Oxford university press, 2003, epilogue, 7144 notes 175178. Burton makes us think about our own journeys to archives, and issues of provenance, access, selection. Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with themabout the effect that the researchers race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history durham, n.
Parent directory1001 tales of osman the pedophile2014may17 12. Archives, history, and authority in uzbekistan jeff sahadeo 45. For specific examples of research that seeks to stretch the traditional definition of the archive, see the following edited collections, conference proceedings and special issues of journals. While we do not yet have a description of the story file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files. Documents and discourses of imagined space in twentiethcentury kohler, wisconsin. The trouble with empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern british imperial past. Facts, fictions, and the writing of history pdf for free. Dwelling in the archives uses the writing of three 20th century indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counternarratives of colonial modernity. See the list of programs recommended by our users below. Processing the past contesting authority in history and. Facts, fictions and the writing of history duke university press, 2005 1, 11. Burton is an american historian, and professor of history and bastian professor of global and transnational studies at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign. Along with catherine hall, mrinalini sinha, and tony ballantyne her work has helped define the new imperial history. Archive fever, archive stories in antoinette burton ed, archive stories.
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