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Author:   Kristina Marie Darling ,  Sandra Beasley ,  Ibis Gomez-Vega ,  David Seth Horton
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:  

9781793646095

ISBN 10:   1793646090
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   13 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

Reviews

In Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus declares that 'History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.' Nearly a century's worth of nightmares, both factual and refractory, farther along, poetry finds itself once again fascinated with history as a literal substance and real-world destination. And so the works that Kristina Darling has gathered here might more accurately be described as expeditions rather than essays. Each has its particular valor and passionate curiosity. Taken all together, they constitute a marvelous wakefulness and revelation. * Donald Revell, Professor of English, University of Nevada, USA * Though the essays in this provocative collection cover a tremendous range—from a 17th c. Chinese courtesan to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to H.D. and Freud—they all speak to our contemporary moment with social and political relevance. Foregrounded in all are the ethical issues that working with an archive inevitably raises, and the forms their responsibility takes are nuanced and penetrating. Full of lively writing and engaging detail, it’s an invaluable document for thinking through our interactions with the past and how they affect our obligations to the future. * Cole Swenson, Professor Emerita of Literary Arts, Brown University, USA *

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Kristina Marie Darling is author of over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction.

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