Linda M. Morra
Author
Language
English
Description
The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that the archives are anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating, and the architects, practitioners,...
Series
Re-appraisals Canadian writers volume 27
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relegated to basements, attics, closets, and, increasingly, cyberspace rather than public institutions. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women's archives in Canada. The essays in Basements and Attics, Closets...