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Weaving the Colonial Archive: A Basket to Lighten the Load
Journal of Australian Studies ( IF 0.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2020.1754276
Natalie Harkin 1
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ABSTRACT Archival-poetics is an active, embodied reckoning with history and the violence of the colonial archive, particularly South Australia’s Aboriginal records. Family records at the heart of this work trigger questions about surveillance, representation and agency, bearing witness to the state’s archivisation processes and the revelation of what is both absent and present on the record. Emotion and intuition compel such archival-intimacy, particularly when reckoning with traumatic, contested and buried episodes of history that inevitably return to haunt. As my research progressed, I unintentionally re-created and became stuck in the very thing I was interrogating: the archive box. The only way to unbind myself was to write poetry and weave my way out, which grounded this archival-poetics in unanticipated ways. This article will explore the process of weaving with my nanna’s and great-grandmother's handwritten letters, as both conceptual metaphor and as literal, cultural practice. As a creative arts praxis, it will also discuss the transformative effect and decolonising potential of weaving archives into something beautiful and honouring, to offer new narratives of history for the future record. A Ngarrindjeri basket can hold many stories. This is one of them.

中文翻译:

编织殖民档案:减轻负担的篮子

摘要 档案诗学是对历史和殖民档案,特别是南澳大利亚原住民记录的暴力的积极的、具体的清算。作为这项工作核心的家庭记录引发了关于监视、代表和代理的问题,见证了国家的档案过程以及记录中缺失和存在的内容。情感和直觉迫使这种档案亲密,特别是在考虑到不可避免地会再次困扰的创伤性、有争议和埋藏的历史情节时。随着研究的进展,我无意中重新创建并陷入了我正在审问的东西中:档案箱。解开自己的唯一方法是写诗并编织出我的出路,这以意想不到的方式奠定了这种档案诗学的基础。本文将探讨用我奶奶和曾祖母的手写信件编织的过程,既是概念隐喻,也是字面文化实践。作为一种创造性的艺术实践,它还将讨论将档案编织成美丽而荣耀的事物的变革效果和去殖民化潜力,为未来的记录提供新的历史叙事。一个 Ngarrindjeri 篮子可以容纳很多故事。这是其中之一。一个 Ngarrindjeri 篮子可以容纳很多故事。这是其中之一。一个 Ngarrindjeri 篮子可以容纳很多故事。这是其中之一。
更新日期:2020-04-02
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