Literary archives differ from most other types of archival papers in that their locations are more diverse and difficult to predict. The essays collected in this book derive from the recent work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, whose focus on diaspora provides a philosophical framework which gives a highly original set of points of reference for the study of literary archives, including concepts such as the natural home, the appropriate location, exile, dissidence, fugitive existence, cultural hegemony, patrimony, heritage, and economic migration.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- About the Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Body
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Introduction: Literary Papers as the Most “Diasporic” of All Archives
- Part One. Diasporic Lives, Diasporic Archives
- Chapter 1. Caribbean Literary Archives and the Politics of Location: Challenging the Norms of Belonging
- The Place of Literature, the Location of the Writer, and the Situation of the Archive
- The Rewards of a Diasporic Norm
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2. The Huntley Archives at London Metropolitan Archives
- Chapter 3. Conserving Private Literary and Editorial Archives: The Story of the IMEC
- Note on the IMEC Collections
- Publishers and Literary Agents
- Authors
- Associations and Organizations
- Journals and Magazines
- Chapter 4. Migration, Freedom of Expression, and the Importance of Diasporic Literary Archives
- Part Two. The Challenges of Literary Archives
- Chapter 5. The Universal Dimension of Diasporic Literary Archives
- Archives at Risk
- The Battle for Evidence
- Memory of the World Programme
- The Endangered Archives Programme
- The Right to History
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6. Namibian Literary Archives: New Beginnings and a Possible African Model
- International Comparison: Namibia and Brazil
- International Comparison: Namibia and Singapore
- International Comparison: Namibia and Uruguay
- International Comparison: Namibia and Jamaica
- A Pragmatic Namibian Way Forward
- Types of Literary Author
- Heritage and National Pride
- Working with Namibian Authors
- What Constitutes a Namibian Literary Manuscript?
- Deciding What to Collect
- Deciding How to Collect
- Technical Matters: Contracts and Copyrights
- Cataloguing, Exhibitions, and Availability to the Public
- Scholarship, Biography, and History
- The Digital Future
- Conclusion: A Good Start for Namibia, A Possible Model for Others
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7. Francophone Archives at Risk
- Manuscrits francophones du Sud
- Globalization, Language, and Literary Manuscripts
- Non-State Solutions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8. Italian Literary Archives: Legacies and Challenges
- Synergies and Scope
- Law and Place
- Archives and Institutions
- Geographical Dislocation of the Archive
- Archive Is a Foreign Land
- Bibliography
- Part Three. The World beyond Literary Archives
- Chapter 9. Unknown/Unknowns and Known/Unknowns
- Chapter 10. Publishers’ Archives, .Authors’ Papers, and Literary Scholarship
- The Organization of Publishers’ Archives in the UK
- The Nature of Publishers’ Archives
- Public and Private Ownership: Two Case Studies
- The Use of Publishers’ Archives in Literary Scholarship
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11. Diasporic Archives in Translation Research: A Case Study of Anthony Burgess’s Archives
- The “Archival Turn” in Translation Studies
- Diasporic Archives and Dispersed Collections in Translation Research
- Studying Translations across Dispersed Collections: The Case of Anthony Burgess’s Blooms of Dublin and its Aborted ...
- Diasporic Collections, Collective Authorship, and Translation in the Archives
- The HRC Manuscripts
- The IABF Manuscripts
- Adapting Ulysses for the Stage: The Tape Recordings
- Collaborative Translation or Translation in Parallel?
- To Conclude
- Bibliography
- Part Four. Conclusion
- Conclusion: The Future of Literary Manuscripts—An International Perspective
- Diasporic Lives and Natural Archival Homes
- Diasporic Appropriateness
- Possible Futures for Literary Archives
- Split Collections
- The Ethics of Acquisition
- The Politics of Location
- Displaced Archives, Alienated Archives, and Diasporic Archives
- Finale
- Bibliography
- Back matter
- Appendix 1 Authors and Their Papers: A Guidance Sheet for Authors and Writers
- Index
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