In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture

Cvetkovich, Ann

doi:10.1215/02705346-17-1_49-107

Cited by 60 publications

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“…For an archive to be useful, to have 'affective power', Cvetkovich suggests an archive must 'preserve and produce not just knowledge but feeling'. 20 The empty sites of New Zealand's mental hospitals provided a distributed and ephemeral archive ( Figure 3). As I wrote my dissertation, weatherboards rotted, and copper spouting disappeared in the night from Seaview Hospital; 650 kilometres north, bulldozers were rolled in at Lake Alice.…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

McLaughlan

2018

CSR

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Do contemporary practices of attribution go far enough in acknowledging the contribution that others make to our work, particularly when they speak from the archive? The autobiographical fiction Faces in the Water (1961) from acclaimed author Janet Frame (1924-2004) draws on her experiences of residing in various New Zealand mental hospitals between 1945 and 1953. It is a rare and comprehensive account of the patient experience of these institutions that provided a critical lens for my doctoral research. Perhaps more importantly, through this text Frame taught me how difficult histories should be written, about the ambiguities we must accept and the value adjustments to be made in order to make sense of confounding inhumanity. Nowhere within my dissertation is the depth of this contribution acknowledged; a position developed out of respect for her family’s active opposition to the ‘patronising’ and ‘pathologising discourse’ that continues to haunt contemporary receptions of Frame’s work. Within this paper I employ autoethnography to make explicit the process of working through a question that haunted me well beyond the completion of my doctoral research: whether contemporary practices of citation and acknowledgement are sufficient to value research contributions from beyond the grave. I will examine whether Frame’s contribution is commensurate with contemporary qualifications for co-authorship and the burdens of academic practice that act to suppress these conversations.

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Section: Figurementioning

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Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

McLaughlan

2018

CSR

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“…This is shown vividly in the case of Dunye et al's (1997) film The Watermelon Woman, and the discussion around it. The film shows at the same time what kind of archival ephemera could have been left by black lesbian life and that such traces are, in fact, impossible to find (Cvetkovich 2002(Cvetkovich , 2003.…”

Section: Finding Queer Pasts In the Archivesmentioning

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A marshall in love. Remembering and forgetting queer pasts in the Finnish archives

Taavetti

2015

Arch Sci

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This article analyses the formation of the queer archives in Finland. In Finland, the close links between the civil society and the state affect the archiving of social movements' history. One of the publicly funded private central archives, the Labour Archives (Työväen Arkisto), has taken responsibility of preserving the documents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) past. This includes documents of activism and associations as well as personal archives and narratives. The article presents the position of the Finnish LGBT collection within the Finnish archival sector and evaluates it in the light of archival theory. The Finnish model of queer archives offers an example of preserving queer pasts in a social history archive that is neither strictly a mainstream archival institution nor an independent activist archive. The article describes the development of queer history and the need to find sources telling about queer lives and discusses the role of the archival institutions and archival science in remembering and forgetting queer pasts. The article reflects also how the archival policies and archival practices affect which pasts are officially remembered and which are forgotten.

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“…From the perspective of Affect Theory, Ann Cvetkovich has pointed out that it is important to review what sources are used when it comes to describing and representing feelings, intimacies, and experiences outside of a heterosexual norm in text and image (writing and art). Popular culture is one area that she designates as a potential alternative source: “[T]he archive of feelings lives not just in museums, libraries, and other institutions, but in other more personal and intimate spaces and also, very significantly within cultural genres” (Cvetkovich 2002, 112). Pop culture novels, photography, and mass‐produced objects are among the alternative sources, she observes, that could have the capacity to archive feelings and desires.…”

Section: Establishing Alternative Archivesmentioning

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Curating Queer Heritage: Queer Knowledge and Museum Practice

Steorn

2012

Curator The Museum Journal

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Important work in the last decades within the museum studies field has laid bare the implicit nationalist, evolutionist, and patriarchal narratives of the traditional museum. So far, though, only a few writers have discussed the museum’s role in supporting “heteronormative” narratives that consolidate heterosexuality as a norm within social and cultural life. This article is a critical discussion of methodological aspects of a queer perspective in interpreting, exhibiting, and organizing museum collections. Two shows with LGBT / queer perspective that were exhibited in Stockholm, Sweden during EuroPride 2008 are the focus of this article’s analysis. They consist of the photo exhibition Show Yourself! at the Nordic Museum, and Queer: Desire, Power, and Identity at the National Museum of Fine Arts. The author himself was the curator of the latter exhibition. This article offers personal reflections on the methodological challenges of translating an abstract queer perspective into museum practice in order to envision online and on‐site museum encounters that can mobilize various kinds of pluralistic passions.

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In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture

Cited by 60 publications

References 20 publications

Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

Towards an Ethic of Reciprocity: The Messy Business of Co-creating Research with Voices from the Archive

A marshall in love. Remembering and forgetting queer pasts in the Finnish archives

Curating Queer Heritage: Queer Knowledge and Museum Practice

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