Hiraeth, or queering time in archives otherwise

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dc.contributor.authorIgwe, Onyeka
dc.contributor.authorStokely, J. D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T12:16:00Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T12:52:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractArchives are the physical manifestations of our collective understanding of history, a way of proving and so legitimising the existence of cultures, practices, and peoples. However, for queer and trans people of colour (QTPOC), entrance into the archive is not easily permitted; the truths of their lives have been, and are presently, excluded, claimed as contingent and/or rendered “folk”—lesser forms of knowledge. “Hiraeth” is a Welsh word that is difficult to translate into English. It speaks of a longing or homesickness for a place that is no longer, or never was. For QTPOC, the archive is this, a hiraeth space. We use “hiraeth” to describe the liminal space in which experiences of home, media practices, and a relationship to the archive can exist. As two Black queer artists who in their work have been exploring ways to implode the archive, in this article we look at how our practices can expand what the archive holds and further provide a space to render the untranslatable, the im/possible, as archive material. It is a strategy of both redefinition and defiance.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationIgwe, O. and Stokely J. D. (2019) ‘Hiraeth, or queering time in archives otherwise’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 16, pp. 9-23. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.01en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.01
dc.identifier.endpage23
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued16
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7394
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue16/ArticleIgweStokeley.pdf
dc.rights© 2019, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectQTPOCen
dc.subjectArchivesen
dc.subjectPractice collaborationen
dc.subjectMultiplicityen
dc.titleHiraeth, or queering time in archives otherwiseen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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