Layering the Cultural Archive
A Critical Reading of Gloria Wekker’sWhite Innocenceand Rembrandt’s Painting of Two Black Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6055068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agnes Andeweg (0000-0002-3090-7880, University College Utrecht, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 230-243 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dutch Crossing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-6564 • E-ISSN: 1759-7854 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03096564.2022.2145047 |
| OpenAlex | W4309760039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In this article I take a critical look at the ‘cultural archive’, one of the key concepts in White Innocence (2016), for which Gloria Wekker drew methodological inspiration from Edward Said, who coined the term in Culture and Imperialism (1993), and from Ann Laura Stoler’s observations on the ‘ethnography of the archive’ in Along the Archival Grain (2009). Drawing on debates in history, cultural analysis and memory studies, and using Rembrandt van Rijn’s painting ‘Two African men’ as case study, I wish to elaborate on Wekker’s observations on what the cultural archive as a conceptual tool allows us to see about Dutch history, memory and society, and what it obscures. Despite its obvious advantages for recognizing and acknowledging structures of coloniality still present in Dutch society, I plead for a more historically grounded approach to the cultural archive that may enhance the productivity of future research on, or in, the cultural archive in order to identify further possibilities of change
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Cultural history · Cultural memory · Ethnography · Innocence · Making-of · Painting · Reading (process · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philippine History and Culture
The Long Revolution
Understanding Everyday Racism
Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory
Canon and Archive
Dutch Dealings with the Slavery Past
Black Africans in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
Al de swarten die hier ter stede comen'. Een Afro-Atlantische gemeenschap in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam
Paradoxes of curating colonial memory
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Colonial memory and forgetting in the Netherlands and Indonesia
White Innocence
From Negro to Black to African American
Portable Monuments
Along the Archival Grain
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |