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The archive incarnate : the embodiment and transmission of knowledge in science fiction
\"We live in an information economy, data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and corporations--seek to use this archive to control society, enforcing conformity or turning citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fighting to liberate the collective mind from those who would enforce top-down control\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The ephemera collector : a novel
The year is 2035, and Los Angeles County is awash in a tangelo haze of wildfire smoke. Xandria Anastasia Brown spends her days deep in the archives of the Huntington Library as the curator of African American Ephemera and associate curator of American Historical Manuscripts, supported by an array of AI personal assistants and health bots. Descended from a family of obsessive collectors who took part in the Great Migration, Xandria grew up immersed in African American ephemera and realia: boots worn by Negro Troopers during the Civil War, Black ATA tennis rackets, bandanas worn by the Crips.... Although Xandria's work may preserve collective memory, she is losing a grasp on her own. Evren, her new health bot, won't stop reminding her that her symptoms of long COVID are worsening; not to mention that severe asthma, chronic fatigue, grief, and worrying lapses in reality keep disrupting progress on a new Octavia E. Butler exhibition, cataloging the new Diwata Collection, and organizing the Huntington against a stealth corporate takeover. Then, one morning a colleague Xandria can't place calls to wish her a happy birthday--and the library goes into an emergency lockdown. Sequestered in the archive with only her adaptive technology and flickering intuition, Xandria fears that her life's work is in danger--the Diwata Collection, a radical blueprint for humanity's survival. Up against a faceless enemy and unsure of who her human or AI allies truly are, she must make a choice.
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Archival Fictions: René Depestre's Popa Singer
René Depestre's 2016 novel Popa Singer is a singular work of autofiction that revisits the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti, Caribbean revolutionary aspirations, and the afterlives of political struggles for global socialist transformation. Drawing on an exceptional collection of archival materials—some of which have only recently been made accessible to scholars—this article traces the forty-year journey of the novel's key chapter, \"Homo Papadocus,\" from its origins in 1970s Cuba to its final form in what constitutes Depestre's last major work of fiction. By interweaving deep historical contextualization and rigorous close reading, this study demonstrates how Depestre's grounding in Haitian narrative traditions—combined with his irrepressible humor, unwavering humanist optimism, and faith in a boundless maternal imagination—allows him to transform an at once personal and national trauma into a future-oriented vision of justice and possibility for Haiti and the wider world. Résumé: Le roman Popa Singer de René Depestre (2016) est une œuvre d'autofiction singulière qui revisite la dictature de Duvalier en Haïti, les aspirations révolutionnaires caribéennes et les conséquences des luttes politiques en vue d'une transformation socialiste mondiale. S'appuyant sur un fonds exceptionnel de documents d'archives—dont certains n'ont été rendus accessibles que tout récemment—cet article retrace le parcours, sur près de quarante ans, d'un chapitre clé du roman, « Homo Papadocus », depuis ses origines dans la Cuba des années 1970 jusqu'à sa forme finale dans ce qui constitute la dernière œuvre majeure de fiction de Depestre. En articulant une contextualisation historique approfondie à une lecture attentive et rigoureuse du texte, cette étude démontre comment l'ancrage de Depestre dans les traditions narratives haïtiennes—conjugué à son humour irrésistible, à son optimisme humaniste inébranlable et à sa foi dans un imaginaire maternel sans limites—lui permet de transformer un traumatisme à la fois personnel et national en une vision d'avenir, porteuse de justice et d'espoir pour Haïti et le monde.
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The fifth assassin
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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A Daydreamer’s Antiquity: The Weird Classical World of Edward Lucas White
Edward Lucas White (1866–1934) taught Latin in private schools in Baltimore MD, published in Classical Weekly , earned a BA from Johns Hopkins but abandoned a PhD program due to ill health. He is known to many classicists for the historical novels The Unwilling Vestal , Andivius Hedulio and Helen . Today, White is the focus of intense admiration for his works of fantasy and horror, now part of the genre of Weird Fiction, especially “Lukundoo” and “The House of the Nightmare.” Thus far this resurgent admiration has not extended to his equally deserving historical fiction or poetry.
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Exhibiting Slavery
Exhibiting Slaveryexamines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of \"primary documents\" within their pages. As Vivian Nun Halloran attests, these novels highlight narrative \"objects\" extraneous to their plot-such as excerpts from the work of earlier writers, allusions to specific works of art, the uniforms of maroon armies assembled in preparation of a military offensive, and accounts of slavery's negative impact on the traditional family unit in Africa or the United States. In doing so, they demand that their readers go beyond the pages of the books to sort out fact from fiction and consider what relationship these featured \"objects\" have to slavery and to contemporary life. The self-referential function of these texts produces a \"museum effect\" that simultaneously teaches and entertains their readers, prompting them to continue their own research beyond and outside the text.
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Brevity is the Soul of Fic Microfiction, Microfic, and Shakespearean Abridgement in Online Fan Fiction
Through a focus on Shakespeare fan fiction, this article discusses ‘microfic’ – short-form fan fiction – as a unique genre of microfiction. Sometimes consisting of fewer than ten words, microfiction relies on clever twists or epiphanies rather than character or plot development for its effect. Although microfic is equally brief and compact, as a genre of fan fiction, it is always engaged in a sustained dialogue with a fan object such as Shakespeare that serves to import whole plots, characters, and metatextual debates into the text with the mention of a name or place. As such, the brevity of microfic is illusory, as it continually draws on – and contributes to – the fan object and its archive. Unlike microfiction in general, micofic is never self-contained. Through an analysis of numerous Shakespeare microfics available in the Archive of Our Own fan fiction database, this article indicates the extent to which their silences are seldom silent.
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