Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges by Cr

Description: Reading the Archival Revolution by Cristina Vatulescu The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storytellers sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives.This transnational study foregrounds peripheral Eastern European perspectives and the ethical stakes of archival research. In so doing, it contributes to the urgent task of decolonizing the field of Eastern European and Russian studies at this critical moment in the regions history. Drawing on diverse work ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Tina Campt, the book enters into broader conversations about the limits and potential of reading documents, fictions, and one another. Pairing one key reading challenge with a particularly arresting story, Vatulescu in turn investigates Michel Foucaults traces in Polish secret police archives; tackles the files, reenactment film, and photo albums of a socialist bank heist; pits autofiction against disinformation in the secret police files of Nobel Prize laureate Herta MÜller; and takes on the digital remediation of Soviet-era archives by analyzing contested translations of the Iron Curtain trope from its 1946 origins to the current war in Ukraine. The result is a bona fide readers guide to Eastern Europes ongoing archival revolution. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Cristina Vatulescu is Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University and the author of Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police Archives in Soviet Times (Stanford, 2010). Review "A powerful reflection on the work—and the ethics—of reading and writing. In warm, confident, at times wryly funny prose, Vatulescu invites the reader to reflect not just on how they read, but on who they are when they read."—Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota"Reading the Archival Revolution is unique, rich, and absorbing. Vatulescus methodology is striking, with lessons reaching beyond police states, and her strategy is creative and generative."—Ann Stoler, The New School Details ISBN1503640272 Author Cristina Vatulescu Publisher Stanford University Press Series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781503640276 Format Hardcover Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Declassified Stories and Their Challenges Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781503641037 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 4 figures, 27 halftones ISBN-10 1503640272 Pages 312 DEWEY 327.12730094 Publication Date 2024-11-12 US Release Date 2024-11-12 UK Release Date 2024-11-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161760873;

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