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The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive
The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places--the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site--and they offer up "alternate modes of knowing" to the traditional archive.
Book Details
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2016
- Pages: 440
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.30in - 6.40in - 1.30in - 1.20lb
- EAN: 9780253018472
- Categories: • Popular Culture• Film - History & Criticism
About the Author
Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime.
Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair of English at Rice University and author of many books on feminism and contemporary culture.
Praise for this book
"It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course."--Museum Anthropology Review
"An unruly--and much-needed--model for how to do the archive differently."--Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
"A finely wrought collection of curiosities, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive presents a surprising and original contribution that stretches our understanding of what constitutes an archive and how to best make use of it. By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera, each of which resolutely resists straight-forward methodologies, remaining all the while serious and deeply engaged. A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us."--Colin Dickey, co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology