go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2787
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bookworks
- ISBN
- 978 1 906012 66 3
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The work embodies a methodological experiment into forms of researching an archive according to devised, creative reading strategies. The methodological premise for the research and composition process was gossip, anecdote and fan fiction, using their gendered relation to authority and official truths/historical narratives as a means to activate alternative tales in the material, with the motive to produce errant connections and plots, thus bringing new insights to acts of constructing narratives with historical material. Gossip was used as an active questioning of the narratives within archives. The book was researched while in residence in Women’s Art Library held at Goldsmiths, which is itself a radical archive, whose objective is preserving women’s work since the 1980s. This project’s intention was to provide new insights into the systems of archival historification, and hegemony in histories, by way of a creative, practice-based responses to the index and its content. This led to new knowledge on practice-based research as value to scholarly archival research. The work’s composition sought to radicalise practice-research methods and provide new critical framework for interacting with archive material using theories of gossip, situated knowledge and archive theory. An objective was also to disrupt classifiers of poetry and prose, working across these forms, employing a range of techniques from a range of literary culture such as conceptual writing and fan fiction, as well as lyric poetry. The work was disseminated through this publication, public readings and knowledge exchange events, and through an article of mine reflecting not he epistemological operation of this practice-based research project for Feminist Review.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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