Turning Archival

Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University. Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: (Re)Turning to the Queer Archives / Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici  1
1. Archives, Bodies, and Imagination: The Case of Juana Aguilar and Queer Approaches to History, Sexuality, and Politics / María Elena Martínez  33
2. Decolonial Archival Imaginaries: On Losing, Performing, and Finding Juana Aguilar / Zeb Tortorici  63
3. Telling Tales: Sexuality, Archives, South Asia / Anjali Arondekar  93
4. Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA / Ann Cvetkovich  111
5. Performing Queer Archives: Argentine and Spanish Policing Files for Unintended Audiences (1950s–1970s) / Javier Fernández-Galeano  141
6. Looking after Mrs. G: Approaches and Methods for Reading Transsexual Clinical Case Files / Emmett Harsin Drager  165
7. Naming Afrika’s Archive “Queer Pan-Africanism” / Elliott James  185
8. Secondhand Cultures, Ephemeral Erotics, and Queer Reproduction: Notes on Collecting David Bowie Records / Daniel Marshall  203
9. Pirates and Punks: Booklegs, Archives, and Performance in Mexico City / Iván A. Ramos  233
10. Unfixed: Materializing Disability and Queerness in Three Objects / Kate Clark and David Serlin  259
11. An Archival Life: Unsettling Queer Immigrant Dwellings / Martin F. Manalansan IV  285
12. Reassessing “The Archive” in Queer Theory / Kate Eichhorn  303
13. Crocker Land: A Mirage in the Archive / Carolyn Dinshaw and Marget Long  321
Coda: Who Were We to Do Such a Thing? Grassroots Necessities, Grassroots Dreaming: The LHA in its Early Years / Joan Nestle  347
Contributors  359
Index  365