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Translation, Recovery, and “Ethnic” Archives of Africana: Inscribing Meaning beyond Otherness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Greg Carr
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Scholars who conduct ethnic archival research and who use material texts and practices in institutions in order to examine human memory and interpret human meaning-making face the challenge of placing differently archived traces of intellectual genealogies in conversation, conflict, and convergence with Western-oriented intellectual genealogies and methodologies. Such a challenge reveals the question at the heart of the proposition of the “ethnic” archive: how do scholars use archival collections as only part of the larger constellation of inscription systems produced, maintained, and institutionalized by cultural groups no longer beholden to the relational dynamic of “othering”?

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 127 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 360 - 364
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Copyright © 2012 by The Modern Language Association of America

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