Reviews

Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History by John Randolph, Tony Ballantyne, Ann Curthoys, Antoinette Burton, Jennifer S. Milligan, Craig Robertson, Renée M. Sentilles, Jeff Sahadeo, Laura Mayhall, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Durba Ghosh, Adele Perry, Peter Fritzsche, Marilyn Booth, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez

atsundarsingh's review

3.0

While this book is a little dated now, I found it really useful for thinking about the effect of the archives as more than just containers of documents. The archive as a political and emotional space is an idea I now won’t be able to avoid. I especially loved the essays on the US passport and the French national archives, as well as the construction of the archives on British feminist suffrage movements.