Fictions of the Archive

Date: 
02/22/2007 - 4:30pm
Location: 
archive
Speakers: 
Novelist/poet Yvette Christian and literary scholar Saidiya Hartman

Novelist and poet Yvette Christian meets with literary scholar Saidiya Hartman to discuss how creative writers versus scholars use and confront historical knowledge in the archive, especially when confronted by archives haunted by “missing” peoples.  Co-sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing.