Affect in the archive: trauma, grief, delight and texts. Some personal reflections

IF 1.3 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Lynette Russell
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Abstract

Abstract Historians, as users of archives, often discuss the thrill and emotion of their ‘discoveries’. We can form romantic attachments or be repulsed across the decades. Archives containing the physical remains of the past can transport us, we can move beyond the here and now. Before the Museum of Melbourne digitised Alfred Howitt’s correspondence, I once opened a letter written to him on classic nineteenth-century blued paper. As I pulled the missive from its envelope, I could smell tobacco smoke. I was immediately in the room with him. Recently, after completing an article on the topic of frontier violence, my co-author and I both described a feeling of stress and trauma that came from reading colonial records of ‘skirmishes’ and ‘dispersals’. In this paper, I want to reflect on the experience of Affect in the archive.
档案中的情感:创伤、悲伤、喜悦和文本。一些个人思考
摘要历史学家作为档案的使用者,经常讨论他们“发现”的激动和情感。几十年来,我们可能会形成浪漫的依恋,也可能会被排斥。包含过去实物遗迹的档案可以运送我们,我们可以超越此时此地。在墨尔本博物馆将阿尔弗雷德·霍伊特的信件数字化之前,我曾打开一封用19世纪经典蓝纸写给他的信。当我从信封里取出信件时,我闻到了烟草味。我立刻和他在房间里。最近,在完成了一篇关于边境暴力的文章后,我和我的合著者都描述了阅读殖民地关于“小规模冲突”和“驱散”的记录时产生的压力和创伤。在这篇论文中,我想反思一下情感在档案中的经历。
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