‘Monuments for the common (wo)man: Diary archives in Europe’

M.H. Huisman

doi:10.5117/TVGN2016.3.HUIS

‘Monuments for the common (wo)man: Diary archives in Europe’

M.H. Huisman

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Abstract

Life-writing documents are not difficult to find; they are part of any archive’s inventory. Nonetheless, a number of European countries have recently witnessed the rise of a new, genre-based type of archive: the diary archive. The Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (1984) in Italy was the first of this kind, and more were to follow, such as the Association pour l’autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographique in France (APA, 1992), the Deutsches Tagebucharchiv (1998), and the Nederlands Dagboekarchief (Dutch Diary Archive, 2009). How and why did these archives come into being? What are their characteristic features, and what is the relevance of these form-based collections to gender studies? I asked Monica Soeting, co-founder of the Dutch Diary Archive, and contextualised the work of the Dutch in the broader field of European diary archives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-387
Number of pages	15
Journal	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2016.3.HUIS
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016

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diaries
community archives
public history
Europe

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