Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges by Vatulescu, Cristina

Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to...
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Author: Cristina Vatulescu
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Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges by Vatulescu, Cristina

Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges

$48.32

Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges

$48.32
Author: Cristina Vatulescu
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 storyteller's 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 region's 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 Foucault's 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 reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.



Author: Cristina Vatulescu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781503641020

About the Author
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).

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