Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory (Routledge Studies in Archives)

Aarons, John (Editor)/ Bastian, Jeannette A. (Editor)/ Griffin, Stanley Hazley (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0367615118 / ISBN 13: 9780367615116

Published by Routledge, 2024

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248 pages. 6.14x0.60x9.21 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory (Routledge Studies in Archives)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367615118
• ISBN 13: 9780367615116
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.49 kilograms

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Synopsis

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.

Interpreting records in the broadest sense, the 15 chapters in this volume explore a wide variety of records that represent new archival interpretations. The book is split into two parts, with the first part focusing on record forms that are not generally considered "archival" in traditional Western practice. The second part explores more "traditional" archival collections and demonstrates how these collections are analysed and presented from the perspective of Caribbean peoples. As a whole, the volume suggests how colonial records can be repurposed to surface Caribbean narratives. Reflecting on the unique challenges faced by developing countries as they approach their archives, the volume considers how to identify and archive records in the forms and formats that reflect the postcolonial and decolonized Caribbean, how to build an archive of the people that documents contemporary society and reflects Caribbean memory, and how to repurpose the colonial archives so that they assist the Caribbean in reclaiming its history.

Archiving Caribbean Identity demonstrates how non-textual cultural traces function as archival records and how folk-centred perspectives disrupt conventional understandings of records. The book should thus be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives, memory, culture, history, sociology, and the colonial and postcolonial experience.

About the Author

John A. Aarons, now retired, was Executive Director of the National Library of Jamaica (1992–2002), Government Archivist of Jamaica (2002–2008), and University Archivist of the University of the West Indies (2009–2014).

Jeannette A. Bastian is Emerita Professor at Simmons University. She is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Library and Information at the University of the West Indies.

Stanley H. Griffin is Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters (Humanities), and Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.