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Unarchiving the Margins Collection

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Historically, literary studies and literary-archival work has focused on the stories of white, male writers. As a way of disrupting this narrow focus, the Unarchiving the Margins Collection digitizes, preserves, and brings to life almost 80 tapes of literary audio from the fonds of a diverse set of writers from equity deserving groups.

The digitization and public distribution of this collection amplifies voices of women, queer writers, and writers of colour who have been historically left out of the archive and thus not highlighted in many digitizing projects. SFU is committed to prioritizing projects that promote content by writers from historically underserved groups in order to ensure that more researchers, scholars, and interested members of the public have access to these materials.

Highlights

The Unarchiving the Margins Collection brings together interviews, readings, and discussions featuring hundreds of voices and writers from equity deserving groups, such as: Daphne Marlatt, Nicole Brossard, Maria Campbell, Dorothy Livesay, Phyllis Webb, Lillian Allen, Ellen Tallman, Penn Kemp, Jeanette Armstrong, Betsy Warland, Fred Wah, Shani Mootoo, Sharon Thesen, Mary Billy, Anita Rau Badami, Lorna Crozier, and many more!

Further, the collection also features renowned Canadian male writers, including: George Bowering, Stuart McLean, and bp Nichol.

Visit the SFU Library Special Collections and Rare Books Unarchiving the Margins collection page for more details about this collection.

License and usage permissions

This collection is made available for non-commercial research and educational purposes. Numerous rights holders are represented in this collection. Simon Fraser University wishes to hear from any copyright owner, or their representative, who believes that this project has not properly attributed their work or has used it without authorization. Please contact copy@sfu.ca and include the URL of the work in your message.

You may reproduce and display/perform this material for research purposes. For all other reproduction, performance or distribution uses, please contact the copyright holders.

Acknowledgements

The SFU English Department gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s B.C. History Digitization Program.

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