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| Scholarly Review |
 | Narrating from the Archive
ISBN# 9780838642054
Reviewed by: Marika L. Cifor, Simmons College
The American Archivist, Vol. 74 |
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With the rise of postmodernism, the relationship between fiction and the archives has become an important area of scholastic exploration. Marco Codebo takes this exploration in new and intriguing directions in Narrating From the Archive. The monograph centers on the historical development of the archival novel from early modernity to the late twentieth-century, a period of three hundred years spanning the eighteenth-century to the rise of postmodernism. The archival novel, a fictional genre, serves as a vehicle for deepening the reader's understanding of the nature of the novel and its cultural significance in the modern age.
The writing is highly academic, but it also demonstrates novelistic sensibilities with its flowing narrative and arresting prose. Archivists, archival researchers, and literary scholars alike will be captivated by Codebo's conception of the novel and its relation to the archives; Codebo's extensive understanding of archives and archival practices, history, theory, and discourse will engage readers.
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