The Future of Literary Archives : Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk.

Front Cover -- Front matter -- Half-title -- About the Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 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 -- 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.

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