Trespassing in the Archive
Poetry in Conversation with History
Trespassing in the Archive
Poetry in Conversation with History
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Description
This book is a collection of essays on works of poetry that engage, question, or reimagine history.
The essays in this volume consider topics ranging from the ethics of archival projects, the aesthetics of the archive, questions of access to archives for creative practitioners and how this accessibility has shaped the works themselves, the politics of the archive, and the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected historical texts can be renegotiated.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
The Surface of the Break: A Theory of Archival Aesthetics
John James
Chapter 2
“As If God Made the Picture and Matched It with a Living Hieroglyph”: Myth, Symbol, and Subjectivity in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
Kristina Marie Darling
Chapter 3
The Afterlives of a Ming Courtesan: The Re-Invention of Zhang Qiao (1615-1633) in Chinese Cultural Products
Haihong Yang
Chapter 4
“Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between 'Poetry of Witness' and 'Documentary Poetics'”
Sandra Beasley
Chapter 5
Archival Renegotiations of the U.S.-México Border: An Autoethnography
D. Seth Horton
Chapter 6
To Tinker with the Machinery of Death: Conceptual Poetry and Archival Justice
J.S. Westbrook
Chapter 7
Catching Our Country's Historical Moment in American Poems
Ibis Gomez-Vega
Chapter 8
A Wind Kept Blowing in My Body: The Archives as Song with Victoria Chang, Deborah Paredez, and Mai Der Vang
By Tiffany Troy
The Surface of the Break: A Theory of Archival Aesthetics
John James
Chapter 2
“As If God Made the Picture and Matched It with a Living Hieroglyph”: Myth, Symbol, and Subjectivity in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
Kristina Marie Darling
Chapter 3
The Afterlives of a Ming Courtesan: The Re-Invention of Zhang Qiao (1615-1633) in Chinese Cultural Products
Haihong Yang
Chapter 4
“Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between 'Poetry of Witness' and 'Documentary Poetics'”
Sandra Beasley
Chapter 5
Archival Renegotiations of the U.S.-México Border: An Autoethnography
D. Seth Horton
Chapter 6
To Tinker with the Machinery of Death: Conceptual Poetry and Archival Justice
J.S. Westbrook
Chapter 7
Catching Our Country's Historical Moment in American Poems
Ibis Gomez-Vega
Chapter 8
A Wind Kept Blowing in My Body: The Archives as Song with Victoria Chang, Deborah Paredez, and Mai Der Vang
By Tiffany Troy
Product details
| Published | Jul 10 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781793646095 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 b/w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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