ABSTRACT

Deploying feminist notions of embodied, relational archival practices, this article critically defines and creatively unites both ‘radical’ and ‘hospitality’ as a tool for enacting generosity in archives. Drawing on the complexities of Derrida’s Of Hospitality (Cultural Memory in the Present) alongside feminist scholarship and, what Cherríe Moraga calls ‘theories of the flesh’, it elucidates the urgent work of imagining archives as spaces of radical hospitality. The article uses embodied knowledges and storytelling as an archival methodology to propose a set of elements of radical hospitality and what it means and does in and for the community archives. It attends to the creative possibilities that acknowledging the relational complexities of the archives, its collections, and its records as integral to establishing socially just and generative spaces for its records creators and its visitors. Radical hospitality becomes not only a possibility but also the lively, animated, and joyous archival body and all of its parts.

摘要

本文运用女性主义的具体化、关系型档案实践概念，批判性地定义并创造性地将“激进”和“热情好客”结合为一种在档案中体现慷慨的工具。借鉴德里达的《好客之道》（当下的文化记忆）的复杂性与女权主义学术以及 Cherríe Moraga 所说的“肉体理论”一起，它阐明了将档案想象成激进好客的空间的紧迫工作。这篇文章使用体现的知识和讲故事作为一种档案方法，提出了一系列激进好客的元素，以及它在社区档案中的意义和作用。它关注创造性的可能性，承认档案、收藏品和记录的关系复杂性是为其记录创建者和访问者建立社会公正和生成空间的组成部分。激进的热情好客不仅成为一种可能，而且还成为活泼、活泼、欢乐的档案机构及其所有部分。