The theme of Archive Madness aims to promote consideration of the limits of disciplinary borders and the revival of the archive in literary analysis. The conference asks how we think about the trace of word, text and object in the formation of literary cultures? How do we account for our increasing attachment to the archival trace? And how are these considerations inflected by questions of the national literature and the annals of nation-formation?

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