Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899729
Jacinta R. Saffold, Kinohi Nishikawa
Abstract:On October 27, 2021, the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) sponsored the first in a series of virtual interviews about the Essence Book Project. Founded by Jacinta R. Saffold, the BSA's inaugural Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellow, the Essence Book Project is a database of the books that appeared on Essence magazine's bestsellers' list from 1994 to 2010. In talking about the project with Kinohi Nishikawa, Saffold highlights how Black best-selling books contribute new paths of inquiry to bibliographical scholarship and explains why it is important to archive contemporary Black print culture. Presented in this article is a modified version of the conversation.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899735
Sarah Madoka Currie
Abstract:Bibliography can be reconstructed to privilege the imaginaries of radicals that are "lesser known." The dis-visibilizing of marginalized neurodiverse scholars and theorycrafters has much in common with the institutionalization approaches that constrict and model obstructed life for neurodivergent bodyminds. In a proposal for mad citation practice, a series of hopeful strategies for nonretrofitted inclusivity and authorial diversity are constructed for the reader instead, which bear similarities to feminist and disabled care practices: explicit permission-setting, naming ontology, lived or living experience validity, commentary or subscript authorization, visibilized quotation selection, draft approval, and cocollaborator approvals all form the basis of a radically collaborative citation methodology that seeks to generate roundtable-format conversations in print, ones that are self-selected within mad communities and feature a heavy roster of neurodivergent or disabled scholars, artists, and authors. In mad citation, the draft writer is less the "manuscript author" and more equivalent to a "conversation facilitator," charged with weaving the myriad kaleidoscopic voices of the movement they seek to represent. This refiguring of the author/collaborator and reader/writer valences are central to a citation futurity that situates power not in the hands of the scholar holding the pen but in the hands of the collective they seek to speak with.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899724
Helene Williams
Abstract:Edith Southey, Edith May Southey, and Sara Coleridge Jr. covered Robert Southey's books in vibrantly printed dress fabrics, creating a collection that came to be called "the Cottonian Library." This article is a manifesto for Cottonian bookbinding to be studied as feminist literary activism. It argues for the importance of looking beyond the book trades to the domestic and unremunerated ways in which women contributed to Romantic period book design, suggesting that the new feminist Craftivism can prompt us to historicize and to acknowledge the significance of Cottonian bookbinding as a practice that cannot be omitted from any history of women and the book.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899718
Paul J. Benzon
Abstract:What happens to a library in the desert? How does it transform as a material object under these pressures, and what might these transformations tell us about its capacity for bearing and registering history? This article considers these questions in relation to the artist Noah Purifoy's found-object installation Library of Congress, one of approximately thirty works that make up the ten-acre space of the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Art in Joshua Tree, California. The museum consists of a wide range of found-object sculptures, all deeply enmeshed within the space of the desert. The museum, and indeed Purifoy's work as a whole, are deeply invested in a complex social and political dialogue with assemblage and thing theory of the sort popularized by Bill Brown and Jane Bennett, constellating objects within space as a way of mapping the shape of postwar Blackness. Library in particular consciously asks what happens to the racial stakes of assemblage when the things in question are books and the site in question is a library.
摘要:沙漠中的图书馆会发生什么?在这些压力下，它作为一种物质对象是如何转变的?这些转变可能告诉我们，它承载和记录历史的能力是什么?本文以艺术家Noah Purifoy的现物装置作品《国会图书馆》(Library of Congress)为研究对象，这是加利福尼亚州约书亚树Noah Purifoy沙漠组合艺术博物馆占地10英亩的约30件作品之一。该博物馆由各种各样的出土雕塑组成，所有这些雕塑都深深融入了沙漠的空间。这个博物馆，乃至普里弗伊的整个作品，都深深投入到一场复杂的社会和政治对话中，与比尔·布朗(Bill Brown)和简·班尼特(Jane Bennett)推广的那种集合和物论进行对话，将空间中的物体组合起来，作为描绘战后黑人形态的一种方式。尤其是《图书馆》有意识地问，当有问题的东西是书，有问题的地点是图书馆时，集会的种族风险会发生什么。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899717
Daniel M. Radus
Abstract:This article argues that the methods of bibliographical scholarship would be enriched with further attention to Indigenous ontological traditions. It does so via an analysis of a small tablet of pipestone that in 1957 was carved into the shape of an open book by Ephraim Taylor, a Dakota artist. The article first establishes that, for the Dakotas, pipestone is a vibrant and animate material, a sentient trace of ancestral kin. The article then aligns the pipestone sculpture with an archive of books whose material traits have been altered by Indigenous readers, arguing ultimately that a sophisticated account of these books—and the stories and relations that inhere within their vibrant material form—requires that bibliographers appeal in particular not to the materialist philosophies that have defined the recent "material turn," but instead to the Indigenous ontologies that predate and even inform this later philosophical tradition.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899736
Jehan L. Roberson
Abstract:Defining text as anything that can be read, self-identified learner and artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores reading as radical communion within her multifaceted textual practice. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Rasheed's work spans vast bodies of knowledge and temporalities to interrogate both the aesthetic and the limits of the text. At times producing collages with letters cut out from books in her own expansive library, and at other times posting scans from various books that are marked up with her rigorous note-taking, Rasheed approaches the text as an invitation to commune with the author in order to collectively arrive at new ways of knowing and being. Rasheed's work maps both her own hypertextual engagements while simultaneously enacting a Black feminist approach to literacy, one that recognizes Black women's textual practices as mapping geographic, corporeal, and psychological sites of resistance.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899716
Lisa Maruca, Kate Ozment
Abstract:This introduction to the special issue, "New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text," defines "critical bibliography" as a method that, at the intersection of critical theory and bibliographic study, challenges standard histories of the book and bookish objects. Drawing on feminist studies, critical race studies, postcolonialism, Marxism, queer theory, and disability studies, among others, critical bibliography, the authors argue, calls attention to the structures of oppression upholding the circulation, preservation, and organization of material texts—but also the possibilities of liberation therein. Taking up this method from a variety of fields and periods, the articles in this issue take on the very grounds, definitions, and boundaries of traditional bibliography, asking epistemological and ontological questions that interrogate the material and conceptual construction of bibliographic knowledge itself.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899720
T. Sharp
Abstract:Many competing theories of the Indigenous inscription practice known as the khipu have been offered, from L. Leland Locke's long-standing postulation that khipus are accounting devices, to Walter Ong's description of them as aide-mémoire, to Gary Urton's more experimental theory that they constituted an early form of binary composition. Just as fraught is the history of the khipu, which were utilized by the Inka, intermediated by Spanish and Catholic authorities in their legal and religious systems, and, finally, banned and burned as seditious and sacrilegious. Contemporary khipus are primarily limited to those used by herders, but Chilean American poet-artist Cecilia Vicuña utilizes the khipu form to compose artworks such as Quipu in the Gutter, Skyscraper Quipu, Quipu That Remembers Nothing, among many others. This article argues that Vicuña utilizes the formal possibilities of khipu materiality, refusing to either limit her khipu-based works as simply mathematical or to romanticize their history. Instead, she intermediates the khipu form with elements of conceptual, visual, and performance art. In doing so, she participates in the colonial history of the khipu—just as Spanish authorities intermediated khipus with written Spanish in colonial courts and in khipu-based religious confessions. However, Vicuña in turn rejects the colonial violence imposed on the khipu in the same process, indicating that the possibilities of the form continue through the form's intermediation and growth.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899737
Kadin Henningsen
Abstract:This article discusses the process of creating an artist's book on Mary Ann Waters, a Black trans woman and sex worker in Antebellum Baltimore. In addition, informed by the author's experience of making the artist's book, he proposes a process of critical fabrication—which brings together Saidiya Hartman's method of "critical fabulation" with Natalie Loveless's articulation of "research-creation"—as a method for critical bibliography.
摘要:本文讨论了创作一本关于玛丽·安·沃特斯(Mary Ann Waters)的艺术家书籍的过程，她是一名黑人变性女性和性工作者，生活在战前的巴尔的摩。此外，根据作者制作艺术家书籍的经验，他提出了一种批判性编造的过程——将赛迪亚·哈特曼的“批判性编造”方法与娜塔莉·洛夫莱斯的“研究-创造”方法结合起来——作为一种批判性参考书目的方法。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1353/crt.2022.a899728
Rebecca Romney
Abstract:This article seeks to delineate principles for incorporating feminist practices into the three main roles of the antiquarian bookseller: buying, cataloging, and selling. While scholarship in feminist bibliography is growing in the academic sphere, and feminist movements for individuals in the rare book trade (such as the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America's Women's Initiative) have seen success in recent years, few formal explorations of feminism in the everyday practices of the trade have yet followed. Laying this groundwork is an important step in the wider efforts to build a more diverse, inclusive, and accessible rare book trade and body of avocational collectors, both of whom play critical roles in deciding what gets preserved, what ends up in institutional collections, and what is ultimately available for scholarly research. This article surveys principles for feminist practice with examples based on the author's own experience as an antiquarian book dealer and cofounder of a rare book firm. It outlines typically unspoken economic influences that have shaped the culture of the rare book trade, as well as how some traditions of the trade can perpetuate bias that results in unnecessary obstacles to attracting, welcoming, and maintaining relationships with collectors. In providing specific examples, this article also demonstrates how incorporating feminist principles into the fundamental skills of the rare book trade is beneficial to dealers, and thus why every bookseller should be a feminist bookseller. This practice benefits dealers in the short term by enabling them to buy in a more informed manner, as well as reducing the risk of needlessly alienating potential buyers of specific books in their cataloging and selling practices. Further, it benefits dealers in the long term by supporting the growth of a much bigger pool of buyers, as it is they who fundamentally keep the engine of the rare book trade running.
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