Artikel
Olive and me in the archive: a Black British woman in an archival space
Verfasst von:
Longley, Oumou
in:
Currents / edited by The Feminist Review Collective
2021
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123–137 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Longley, Oumou |
| In: | Currents / edited by The Feminist Review Collective |
| Jahr: | 2021 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article aims to explore how the archival life of Olive Morris might radically rebuff the devaluation of Black womanhood and identity in Britain. Harnessing a Black feminist framework, I approach Lambeth Archives, where the Olive Morris Collection is found as a therapeutic space. Through an understanding of Olive as complex, I disrupt hegemonic expectations of Black women and propose that within the space of this research, Black womanhood be allowed the freedom of self-definition. In a conglomeration of the documents and voices of the community that remembers Olive, marginalised epistemologies are legitimised. Their sometimes-conflicting accounts generate an unbounded image of Olive as a figure of Black British women’s history that harbours meaning as it is mobilised in social consciousness. Incorporating my own auto-ethnographic reflections, I explore the internal and external impact of Olive and my existence in this archival space. | |
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