Out of the Closet, Into the Archives by Amy L. Stone; Jaime Cantrell

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives

Researching Sexual Histories

Amy L. Stone; Jaime Cantrell

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives takes readers inside the experience of how it feels to do queer archival research and queer research in the archive. The archive, much like the closet, exposes various levels of public and privateness–recognition, awareness, refusal, impulse, disclosure, framing, silence, cultural intelligibility–each mediated and determined through subjective insider/outsider ways of knowing. The contributors draw on their experiences conducting research in disciplines such as sociology, African American studies, English, communications, performance studies, anthropology, and women’s and gender studies. These essays challenge scholars to engage with their affective experience of being in the archive, illuminating how the space of the archive requires a different kind of deeply personal, embodied research.

Introduction: Something Queer at the Archive

Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell

PART I. ARCHIVAL MATERIALITY

1. Making a Place for Lesbian Life at the Lesbian Herstory Archives

Agatha Beins

2. Secrets in Boxes: The Historian as Archivist

Craig M. Loftin

3. Papered Over, or Some Observations on Materiality and Archival Method

Maryanne Dever

PART II. BEYOND THE TEXT

4. Elsa Gidlow’s Garden: Plants, Archives, and Queer History

Greg Youmans

5. Indexing Desire: The Gay Male Pornographic Video Collection as Affective Archive

Whitney Strub

6. Feverishly Lesbian-Feminist: Archival Objects and Queer Desires

Julie R. Enszer

PART III. ARCHIVAL MARGINALIZATIONS

7. Straight Talk, Queer Haunt: The Paranormal Activity of the Chicano Art Movement

Robb Hernández

8. Victory Celebration for Essex Charles Hemphill; or, What Essex Saved

Rebecca Lynne Fullan

9. Interrogating Trans* Identities in the Archives

Liam Oliver Lair

10. Putting Trans* History on the Shelves: The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, Canada

Aaron H. Devor and Lara Wilson

PART IV: CATALOGING QUEER LIVES

11. Autobiographical Text, Archives, and Activism: The Jane Rule Fonds and Her Unpublished Memoir,Taking My Life

Linda M. Morra

12. Interviewing Hustlers: Cross-Class Relations, Sexual Self-Documentation, and the Erotics of Queer Archives

Yuriy Zikratyy

13. SUBSCRIBE to Feminary! Producing Community, Region, and Archive

Jaime Cantrell


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Details

ISBN 978-1-4384-5903-5
Genre Anthology – Nonfiction
Publication Date Dec-15
Publisher SUNY
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 372
Notes Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Anthology
Language English
Rating Good
Foreword Author Ann Cvetkovich
BookID 9454

Author: LFWBooks