The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive (The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory)

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Synopsis
The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places--the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site--and they offer up "alternate modes of knowing" to the traditional archive.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
440 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780253018519
Related ISBNs:
9780253018472
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Indiana University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jonathan P. Eburne
Edited by:
Judith Roof

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