At Home in Archival Grief: Lost Canons and Displaced Stories

What happens when desires for homogeneity, belonging and possession conflict with realities of migration and loss? What happens when the life of the scholar and the life of the exile are imagined together? What does it mean to live simultaneously within two clashing narratives, as so many scholars d...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:288904be163e478ebfd9b82d9099e3942021-11-18T14:47:01ZAt Home in Archival Grief: Lost Canons and Displaced Stories2633-069510.17613/xx4f-4q90https://doaj.org/article/288904be163e478ebfd9b82d9099e3942021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:42746/CONTENT/1-at-home-in-archival-grief-lost-canons-and-displaced-stories-blossom-stefaniw-1-17.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695What happens when desires for homogeneity, belonging and possession conflict with realities of migration and loss? What happens when the life of the scholar and the life of the exile are imagined together? What does it mean to live simultaneously within two clashing narratives, as so many scholars do? And what if we treat the past as something other than our homeland? The following stories about archive, canon, and patrimony are also questions about scholarly subjectivity. By recounting scenes of living at odds with racialized or gendered narratives of the proper location and embodiment of knowledge, I seek to expand scholarly imagination. There are many more ways to relate to the past through the Classical or Christian archive than through simple assertions of continuity. Archival grief may be the condition to which the scholarly imaginary is subject.Blossom StefaniwUniversity of Sheffieldarticlecanonarchivechristian historyethics of scholarshipimaginationThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 1-17 (2021)
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christian history
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imagination
The Bible
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archive
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At Home in Archival Grief: Lost Canons and Displaced Stories
description What happens when desires for homogeneity, belonging and possession conflict with realities of migration and loss? What happens when the life of the scholar and the life of the exile are imagined together? What does it mean to live simultaneously within two clashing narratives, as so many scholars do? And what if we treat the past as something other than our homeland? The following stories about archive, canon, and patrimony are also questions about scholarly subjectivity. By recounting scenes of living at odds with racialized or gendered narratives of the proper location and embodiment of knowledge, I seek to expand scholarly imagination. There are many more ways to relate to the past through the Classical or Christian archive than through simple assertions of continuity. Archival grief may be the condition to which the scholarly imaginary is subject.
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