The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities)

Literary archives differ from most other types of archival papers in that their locations are more diverse and difficult to predict. Acquiring institutions for literary papers have historically had very little by way of collecting policies and consequently the collecting of literary papers has often been opportunistic and serendipitous. The essays collected in this book all derive or continue from the recent work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, which takes a comparative, transnational and internationalist approach to studying literary manuscripts, their uses and their significance. The 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. Front Cover Front matter Half-title About the Series Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Body Introduction: Literary Papers as the Most “Diasporic” of All Archives Bibliography Part One. Diasporic Lives, Diasporic Archives Chapter 1. Caribbean Literary Archives and the Politics of Location: Challenging the Norms of Belonging The Place of Literature, the Location of the Writer, and the Situation of the Archive The Rewards of a Diasporic Norm Bibliography Chapter 2. The Huntley Archives at London Metropolitan Archives Bibliography Chapter 3. Conserving Private Literary and Editorial Archives: The Story of the IMEC Note on the IMEC Collections Publishers and Literary Agents Authors Associations and Organizations Journals and Magazines Chapter 4. Migration, Freedom of Expression, and the Importance of Diasporic Literary Archives Bibliography Part Two. The Challenges of Literary Archives Chapter 5. The Universal Dimension of Diasporic Literary Archives Archives at Risk The Battle for Evidence Memory of the World Programme The Endangered Archives Programme The Right to History Concluding Remarks Bibliography Chapter 6. Namibian Literary Archives: New Beginnings and a Possible African Model International Comparison: Namibia and Brazil International Comparison: Namibia and Singapore International Comparison: Namibia and Uruguay International Comparison: Namibia and Jamaica A Pragmatic Namibian Way Forward Types of Literary Author Heritage and National Pride Working with Namibian Authors What Constitutes a Namibian Literary Manuscript? Deciding What to Collect Deciding How to Collect Technical Matters: Contracts and Copyrights Cataloguing, Exhibitions, and Availability to the Public Scholarship, Biography, and History The Digital Future Conclusion: A Good Start for Namibia, A Possible Model for Others Bibliography Chapter 7. Francophone Archives at Risk Manuscrits francophones du Sud Globalization, Language, and Literary Manuscripts Non-State Solutions Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 8. Italian Literary Archives: Legacies and Challenges Synergies and Scope Law and Place Archives and Institutions Geographical Dislocation of the Archive Archive Is a Foreign Land Bibliography Part Three. The World beyond Literary Archives Chapter 9. Unknown/Unknowns and Known/Unknowns Bibliography Chapter 10. Publishers’ Archives, .Authors’ Papers, and Literary Scholarship The Organization of Publishers’ Archives in the UK The Nature of Publishers’ Archives Public and Private Ownership: Two Case Studies The Use of Publishers’ Archives in Literary Scholarship Coda Bibliography Chapter 11. Diasporic Archives in Translation Research: .A Case Study of Anthony Burgess’s Archives The “Archival Turn” in Translation Studies Diasporic Archives and Dispersed Collections in Translation Research Studying Translations across Dispersed Collections: The Case of Anthony Burgess’s Blooms of Dublin and its Aborted ... Diasporic Collections, Collective Authorship, and Translation in the Archives The HRC Manuscripts The IABF Manuscripts Adapting Ulysses for the Stage: The Tape Recordings Collaborative Translation or Translation in Parallel? To Conclude Bibliography Part Four. Conclusion Conclusion: The Future of Literary Manuscripts—An International Perspective Diasporic Lives and Natural Archival Homes Diasporic Appropriateness Possible Futures for Literary Archives Split Collections The Ethics of Acquisition The Politics of Location Displaced Archives, Alienated Archives, and Diasporic Archives Finale Bibliography Back matter Appendix 1. Authors and Their Papers: A Guidance Sheet for Authors and Writers Index This unique collection discusses the nature and future of literary manuscripts, the politics and ethics of collecting and international best practice in a world in which literary papers are increasingly dispersed.