Dust by Carolyn Kay Steedman
The Archive and Cultural History
A meditation on the practice of history and the materiality of archives, this work explores how state institutions produce and preserve documents, how the remnants of ordinary lives—especially those of the poor—are transformed into historical knowledge, and how dust, both literal and metaphorical, clings to the stories historians seek to tell. Blending cultural history, theory, and reflective narrative, it examines desire, memory, and the limits of what can be known from fragments, challenging the romance of the archive while honoring the labor, losses, and traces that make history possible.
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- Published
- 2001
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-240
- Original Language
- English
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