Diasporic Literary Archives: A New Approach

Abstract

This essay describes the work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network since 2012, some of the key ideas raised in the Network’s meetings, and some of the projects completed and in prospect. The Network was conceived and planned by a team of archivists, researchers and scholars in the University of Reading, UK, and began work in 2012, funded by a major grant from the Leverhulme Trust. Its core membership was drawn from archivists in France, Italy, Namibia, Trinidad & Tobago and the USA, with support from UNESCO, the International Council on Archives, the British Library and others. Subjects covered in the essay include: the politics of archival location; futures for Caribbean and African literary archives; archives at risk; the ethics of archival collecting; and reasons for the typically diasporic nature of literary archives.

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