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- Title
Translation, Recovery, and "Ethnic" Archives of Africana: Inscribing Meaning beyond Otherness.
- Authors
Carr, Greg
- Abstract
The article discusses archival Africana collections and presents the author's opinion that an expanded definition of what constitutes an archive is needed in order to provide full understanding of African and Black history. The role of translation and recovery of materials in Africana studies is discussed, and the othering effect of the term "ethnic" is examined.
- Subjects
AFRICA; AFRICANA studies; AFRICANA libraries; ETHNOLOGICAL archives; OTHER (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of translating &; interpreting
- Publication
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2012, Vol 127, Issue 2, p360
- ISSN
0030-8129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1632/pmla.2012.127.2.360