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These and other essays formulate or adopt such terms as the "social archive," the "raw archive," the "imperial archive," the "postcolonial archive," "the popular archive," "the ethnographic archive," "the geographical archive," "the liberal archive," "archival reason," "archival consciousness," "archive cancer," and "the poetics of the archive." 12 This terminology reflects the development of theories about the nature of the disci- plines and about what constitutes their legitimate objects of study.
A typical example is an essay by Wolfgang Ernst describing the use of genealogical records by Nazi Germany to identify European Jews for annihilation.35 Similarly, the records compiled by British administrators in India and other colonial outposts are read by postcolonial scholars as providing evidence of a desire to consolidate and jus- tify imperial power.
Similarly, the new field of postcolonial studies is highly suspi- cious of the colonial record and could be defined, in part, as an attempt to locate the voices of the silenced native within the literature produced by colonial powers.
In both fields, scholars focus on the absences and the distortions of the archive, as well as new contributions by contemporary women and postcolonial writers.
Romances of the archive provide a way for both postcolonial and postimperial subjects to explore and come to terms with Britain's past.
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