Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings, Radical Histories Review Special Issue

摘要

Editors Daniel Marshall, Kevin P Murphy and Zeb Tortorici's introduction to Queering Archives: Historical Unravellings posits that 'in a catalog of queer archives you can find not only a listing of current gay and lesbian archives around the world but also a listing of those gay and lesbian archives that "no longer exist" and, most bewitchingly, a listing of those archives that "never existed'" (p. 1). The Foucauldian conception of the archive proposed in The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), as not a body of documentary evidence nor the institutions that act as its custodian but 'the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events' (p. 129), is used as both a touchstone and a problematic in this volume. This special issue of Radical Histories Review explores the ways in which LGBTQIA history and experience have been and continue to be negated or silenced by archival institutions, and ways in which we may reimagine archival hegemony to better encompass voices from the margins.