Annie Moore and the archives of displacement

Towards an Immigrant History of the Present

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3978264
AutoresKelly (0000-0003-1045-4615, Goldsmiths University of London), Susan Kelly (0000-0002-3160-5745), Stephen Morton (0000-0001-7122-0201, University of Southampton)
Ano2004
Volume5
Fascículo4
Páginas633-650
Data de publicação2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1464936042000317749
OpenAlexW1980350934
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas4

Annie Moore, the first immigrant to enter the USA through the Ellis Island immigrant processing station, stands as an originary figure of the so-called golden age of European immigration to the USA in the late nineteenth century. The contemporary archivization of the Irish immigrant Annie Moore in the Ellis Island Museum, New York and the Cobh Harbour Heritage Centre in County Cork, Ireland repeats the democratic rhetoric of immigration which underpins the foundation of the USA, as well as the national imaginary of Ireland. Yet in so doing, this archivization effaces the hierarchies of race and class that have historically underpinned the democratic rhetoric of immigration. With reference to Jacques Derrida's work on the archive and hospitality, this article expands on a performance-based critical art intervention into the archivization of Annie Moore entitled 'Calling Up Annie Moore'. Focusing on the blindspots, ellipses and discontinuities which the archive represses, the article traces the different histories and experiences of immigration which the art intervention disclosed

Archaeology · Art history · Democracy · Hospitality · Immigration · Irish · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · The Imaginary · Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture