Refiguring the Archive ed. Hamilton, C., Harris, V., Pickover, M., Reid, G., Saleh, R., Taylor, J.

Publisher: Published by Kluwer Academic Pub, 2003

Binding red-orange paper covered board. Boards and spine are all intact. Corners are bumped, but no damages, spine is intact. Pages clean and  clear, binding tight and secure.
DJ has a small tear in the left centre of the front panel, bumped on the corners of spine area and front and back wraps, three small marks on the bottom edge at the spine and back wrap. The top edge of DJ is worn and shows signs of foxing on the inside of the top edge. Some light marks on front of DJ; otherwise DJ is in good condition. Otherwise DJ in Very Good condition.

Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

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