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Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production hero image."> </a> <span class="card-title"> <div class="carousel-text-wrapper "> <a href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/904/"> Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </a> </div> </span> </div> <div class="card-content"> <p>This Special Collection brings together contributions by scholars working at the intersection of modern and contemporary literature, material culture, ephemera, and archives. It explores how ephemera register in, are used by, and influence the form of modern(ist) and contemporary literary production, thereby considering how, and to what purposes, literary texts come to function as imaginary archives.</p><p>The gathering of ephemera – which we define with Maurice Rickards as ‘minor transient documents of everyday life’ (<i>Collecting Printed Ephemera</i>, 1988, p. 13) – into an archive is often understood as a documentary impulse which inevitably invites questions about what is kept and what is lost, whether by intention or accident. This Collection posits that literary texts, too (and the literary canon) represent an archival endeavour, offering a space within which ephemera can be recuperated and reimagined. It encompasses examinations of both real and fictional examples of ephemera in literature from 1900 to the present as well as considerations of the affective and critical work that can be done by creative acts using or recovering ephemeral objects. The essays gathered together here each explore the persistent presence of fragmentary, minor, and marginal ephemeral objects in relation to the aesthetic strategies of modern and contemporary literature.</p> </div> </div> <p> <strong>Editors: </strong> Ann-Marie Einhaus (Guest Editor), Alexandra Peat (Guest Editor) </p> <br/> <h2 class="em"> Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </h2> <div class="card-panel"> <div class="row"> <div class="col m2 hide-on-small-and-down"> <img src="/article/id/16531/file/164634/" alt="Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools and the Ephemeral Promise of Transnational Community" class="responsive-img"> </div> <div class="col m10 s12"> <a href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/16531/"> <h5 class="article-title">Katherine Anne Porter’s <em>Ship of Fools</em> and the Ephemeral Promise of Transnational Community</h5> </a> <p> Nissa Ren Cannon </p> <p> <span class="date"> <i class="fa fa-calendar"></i> 2024-08-27 </span> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1287/info/"> Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2024 </a> <p><strong><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i> Also a part of:</strong></p> <p> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/904/"> Special Collection: Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </a> </p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-panel"> <div class="row"> <div class="col m2 hide-on-small-and-down"> <img src="/article/id/16725/file/168428/" alt="Maps and the Burdens of Belonging: Identity and Resistance in Gurnah’s By the Sea and Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea" class="responsive-img"> </div> <div class="col m10 s12"> <a href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/16725/"> <h5 class="article-title">Maps and the Burdens of Belonging: Identity and Resistance in Gurnah’s <em>By the Sea</em> and Owuor’s <em>The Dragonfly Sea</em></h5> </a> <p> Gargi Binju </p> <p> <span class="date"> <i class="fa fa-calendar"></i> 2024-10-07 </span> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1287/info/"> Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2024 </a> <p><strong><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i> Also a part of:</strong></p> <p> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/904/"> Special Collection: Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </a> </p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-panel"> <div class="row"> <div class="col m2 hide-on-small-and-down"> <img src="/article/id/17354/file/177423/" alt="Out of Africa: Nat Nakasa's Exit Paperwork" class="responsive-img"> </div> <div class="col m10 s12"> <a href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/17354/"> <h5 class="article-title">Out of Africa: Nat Nakasa's Exit Paperwork</h5> </a> <p> Cedric Van Dijck </p> <p> <span class="date"> <i class="fa fa-calendar"></i> 2025-01-29 </span> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/issue/1323/info/"> Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025 </a> <p><strong><i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i> Also a part of:</strong></p> <p> <i class="fa fa-book"></i> <a class="issue-link" href="https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/904/"> Special Collection: Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </a> </p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <ul class="pagination"> <li class="waves-effect active"><a href="?page=1">1</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col m3 offset-m1"> <h3> Special Collections </h3> <ul class="collection"> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/1271/">Diversity and Competition within the Latin Church: The Secular-Mendicant Controversy and its Long Aftermath (13th–20th Centuries) </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/1267/">Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/963/">Humour as a Human Right </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/905/">Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery </a> <a class="collection-item active" href="/collections/904/">Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/895/">Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/877/">Cultural Representations of Machine Vision </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/850/">The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/846/">Medieval Minds and Matter </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/803/">Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/505/">The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/455/">Production Archives 03: Archival Practices </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/454/">Production Archives 02: Production Contexts </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/453/">Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/452/">Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/447/">The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/449/">Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/450/">Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/412/">Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/413/">The Language of Perspective </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/414/">Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/415/">The Working-Class Avant-Garde </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/416/">Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/417/">Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/418/">Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018 </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/419/">Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/420/">Muslims in the Media </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/421/">Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia? </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/422/">Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/423/">Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/424/">New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/425/">Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/426/">Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/427/">Representing Climate: Local to Global </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/428/">Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/429/">Freedom After Neoliberalism </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/430/">The Medieval Brain </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/431/">Remaking Collections </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/432/">New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/433/">Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/434/">Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/435/">Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/436/">Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/437/">Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/438/">#Agreement20 </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/439/">What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/440/">New Voices in Jewish-American Literature </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/441/">Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/442/">From TV To Film </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/443/">American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/444/">Mnemosyne </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/445/">Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World </a> <a class="collection-item " href="/collections/446/">The Abolition of the University </a> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </main> <footer class="page-footer"> <div class="footer-copyright"> <div class="container"> <div class="row expanded"> <div class="col m10"> <p> | ISSN: 2056-6700 | Published by <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org">Open Library of Humanities </a> | <a href="https://www.openlibhums.org/site/privacy" > Privacy Policy </a> | </p> </div> <div class="col m2"> <form action="/i18n/setlang/" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="csrfmiddlewaretoken" value="R6mKO7qYRdXo9IZhUldDU6nOpgBGfxQSHHCN1ikDO7KimHoSK3IsxzPXT6XE04OF"> <input name="next" type="hidden" value=""/> <select name="language" onchange="this.form.submit()" class="browser-default language-select" autocomplete="off"> <option value="en" selected> English (en) </option> <option value="fr"> français (fr) </option> <option value="es"> español (es) </option> </select> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> <!-- Scripts--> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"> </script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@materializecss/materialize@1.2.2/dist/js/materialize.min.js"> </script> <script> window.M.AutoInit() </script> <script src="/static/material/material.js"></script> <script src="/static/admin/js/csrf.js"></script> <script src="/static/common/js/timezone-setter.js"></script> <script>setTimezone();</script> <script> </script> </body> </html>