"Turning Archival 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 contributors draw upon multidisciplinary, geopolitically diverse, and embodied accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots, and everyday repositories of historical memory. By analyzing how the many turns to the archives shape the relationship of the historicalto queer forms of knowledge, evidence, and worldmaking, this book theorizes the notion of turning in performative terms as a way of understanding how meaning gets produced through encounters with archival materials. Drawing on a range of perspectives-from postcolonial, performance, trans, disability, and cultural studies-this collection examines the archival turn within queer studies and how it has fostered historical imagination and knowledge. Together, the contributors provide personal and critical reflections on the allure of the archives, on that which resists archival capture, and on what is at stake for queer and trans lives in these archival turns"--
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of the archive as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge.
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"This book would interest those working on archival research, queer history methodologies, and cultural studies. By expanding and contracting our interpretation of archives, the book uses documentary sources to mediate the paradoxes of exploring queer lives. Every chapter is a unique opportunity to reconnect with the challenging, sometimes frustrating, but always gratifying labor of seeking queer and trans traces in documentary sources. Turning Archival can serve as an extensive toolbox with which to navigate the echoes and silences in the archives." - Patricio Simonetto (A Contracorriente) "Marshall and Tortorici masterfully compiled this work by interweaving theoretical discussions with practical examples, which invites not only scholars but also general readers to pick up the book. The editors skillfully incorporate multiple works by authors from different backgrounds to showcase the importance of archival research in uncovering and preserving stories, histories, and herstories of the LGBTQ+ community." - Drew Russell (American Archivist)
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: (Re)Turning to the Queer Archives / Daniel Marshall and Zeb
Tortorici 1
1. Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer
Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics / MarĶa Elena MartĶnez 33
2. Decolonial Archival Imaginaries: On Losing, Performing, and Finding Juana
Aguilar / Zeb Tortorici 63
3. Telling Tales: Sexuality, Archives, South Asia / Anjali Arondekar 93
4. Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian
Archives at UCLA / Ann Cvetkovich 111
5. Performing Queer Archives: Argentine and Spanish Policing Files for
Unintended Audiences (1950s1970s) / Javier FernĮndez-Galeano 141
6. Looking after Mrs. G: Approaches and Methods for Reading Transsexual
Clinical Case Files / Emmett Harsin Drager 165
7. Naming Afrikas Archive Queer Pan-Africanism / Elliott James 185
8. Secondhand Cultures, Ephemeral Erotics, and Queer Reproduction: Notes on
Collecting David Bowie Records / Daniel Marshall 203
9. Pirates and Punks: Booklegs, Archives, and Performance in Mexico City /
IvĮn A. Ramos 233
10. Unfixed: Materializing Disability and Queerness in Three Objects / Kate
Clark and David Serlin 259
11. An Archival Life: Unsettling Queer Immigrant Dwellings / Martin F.
Manalansan IV 285
12. Reassessing The Archive in Queer Theory / Kate Eichhorn 303
13. Crocker Land: A Mirage in the Archive / Carolyn Dinshaw and Marget Long
321
Coda: Who Were We to Do Such a Thing? Grassroots Necessities, Grassroots
Dreaming: The LHA in its Early Years / Joan Nestle 347
Contributors 359
Index 365
Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University.
Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.
