English Language Notes
45.1 Spring / Summer 2007
The Specter of the Archive
Special Issue Editor: John-Michael Rivera
Department of English
226 UCB
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado USA 80309-0226
English Language Notes
Issue 45.1
Spring / Summer 2007
Special Issue Editor
John-Michael Rivera
Editorial Board
Adélékè Adéèkó
Katherine Eggert
Jane Garrity
Karen Jacobs
John-Michael Rivera
Sue Zemka
Editorial Staff
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Table of Contents
The Archive as Specter
John-Michael Rivera, University of Colorado at Boulder
john-michael.rivera@colorado.edu
1
Dead Letters and Circulating Texts: On the Limits
of Literary Archiving
Philip Joseph, University of Colorado at Denver and
Health Sciences Center
philip.joseph@cudenver.edu
5
Archive-Text: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Will Slocombe, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
wws@aber.ac.uk
Jennie Hill, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
jdh@aber.ac.uk
21
The Law of the Literary Archive: The Case of the
Early American Period
Nan Goodman, University of Colorado at Boulder
nan.goodman@colorado.edu
33
The Violence of the Archive
Wisam Mansour, Fatih University
wmansour@fatih.edu.tr
41
Figures and Other Fictions in the Archive
William N. West, Northwestern University
w-west@northwestern.edu
45
What the Archive Could Not Tell Me
María Carla Sánchez, University of Michigan
maricarl@umich.edu
57
Grappling with the Archive of Mexican America
José F. Aranda, Jr., Rice University
aranda@rice.edu
67
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English Language Notes 45.1 Spring / Summer 2007
The Archival Imagination: Reading John Lydgate
Toward a Theory of Literary Reproduction
William Kuskin, University of Colorado at Boulder
william.kuskin@colorado.edu
79
Archival Conflicts: The New Negro Movement and the
Caribbean as Other
John Escobedo, University of Colorado at Boulder
escobedo1975@yahoo.com
93
Racing the Archive: Will the Real William DuBois Please Stand Up?
Shannon Rose Riley, Saint Mary’s College
sriley@saintmarys.edu
103
The Anti-Archive? Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the
Dilemmas of Holocaust Representation
Elisabeth R. Friedman, York University
efriedman@rogers.com
111
Material Knowledge: Democracy and the Digital Archive
Stephen J. Mexal, California State University, Fullerton
smexal@fullerton.edu
123
Defamiliarizing “The Family”:
Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans (1925)
Catriona Menzies-Pike, University of Sydney
catriona.menzies-pike@arts.usyd.edu.au
137
An Archive of Hunger
Vincent Woodard, University of Colorado at Boulder
vincent.woodard@colorado.edu
149
Contributors
161