Pulp III: an intimate inventory of the banished book

Abstract

"Taking the form of a book, film and paper maze, Shubigi Rao's exhibition, 'Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, curated by Ute Meta Bauer and commissioned by National Arts Council, Singapore, explores the persistence of endangered languages, the futures of public and alternative libraries, and the cosmopolitanism of regional communities that have blossomed and waned in historic centers of print and trade, including Venice and Singapore"--Author's website.

Contents

Part I. A preliminary profile. Introduction ; The future of the library : eleven propositions ; Ordering libraries : an intimate inventory -- Part II. Anecdotal evidence. Banishment and resistance : a brief primer (a. Dangerous women ; b. Dangerous diaries) ; Languages on the brink : Kristang (a. On the Singaporean Eurasian community ; b. On the Melakan Portuguese community) ; Languages on the brink : Cimbrian (a. Histories of a highlands ; b. How to say hello) ; Initial notes on print in the Malay world (a. The idea of literature ; b. Labour and lithography) ; Archives of community (a. Between us : an Arabic library in Berlin ; b. Documents and sound : an Armenian centre in Venice); Archives of resistance (a. The oral testimony ; b. The pacifist resistance) ; Archives of protest (a. A century of worker struggle ; b. Labour and the unbound book) -- Part III. Postscript. Afterword ; Acknowledgements -- Bibliography : being an ongoing list for Pulp 2014-2021.