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The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk
ISBN: 9781942401582
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Arc Humanities Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Library Science ; Cultural Studies ; Museum Studies;

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.

David C. Sutton is Director of Research Projects in Reading University Library. He is editor of the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters and UK editor of the WATCH copyright project.Livingstone Ann :

Ann Livingstone is an administrator at the University of Reading. She provided administrative and editorial support to the Diasporic Literary Archives research project from which this book was born.