Refiguring the archive / edited by Carolyn Hamilton ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris and Graeme Reid--The power of the archive and it limits / Achille Mbembe--The archives and the political imaginary / Bhekizizwe Peterson--Archive fever in South Africa / Jacques Derrida--Psychoanalysis and the archive: Derrida's Archive fever / Susan van Zyl--A shaft of darkness: Derrida in the archive / Verne Harris--Colonial archives and the arts of governance: on the content in the form / Ann Laura Stoler--'Picturing the past' in Namibia: the visual archive and its energies / Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester and Wolfram Hartmann--The archival silver: a perspective on the construction of social memory in archives and the transition from apartheid to democracy / Verne Harris--The archive, public history and the essential truth: the TRC reading the past / Brent Harris--The human genome as archive: some illustrations from the south / Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins--'The history of the past is the trust of the present': preservation and excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa / Graeme Reid--'Living by fluidity': oral histories, material custodies and the politics of archiving / Carolyn Hamilton
Literature and the archive: the biography of texts / Sarah Nuttall--Keeping the self: the novelist as (self- )archivist / Ronald Suresh Roberts--Electronic record-keeping, social memory and democracy / David Bearman--Blackbirds and black butterflies / Martin Hall.