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Gumbo for the Soul
This book is a collection of memoirs by Women of Color, sharing stories of pain, discovery, and strength. Inspired by the resilience of their ancestors, these narratives aim to empower and motivate readers. The authors highlight the importance of trusting one's experiences to become strong, purposeful, and powerful individuals.
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Nancy knows
\"An unforgettable look at memory -- and a playful reminder that sometimes you have to let go to tap in.\"--Jacket.
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Matraversian skepticism and models of memory
This paper introduces Matraversian skepticism from aesthetics (i.e., there is no
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interesting difference between our engagement with fiction versus our engagement with non-fiction) to debates in psychology and cognitive science on memory processing. I argue that the concept of ‘fiction’ has no place in our cognitive models of memory, neither in a specific category of memory, nor as a fact/fiction dimension. I propose a two-stage model of memory processing and explore the skeptical challenge that it poses to existing accounts of the role of the concept of ‘fiction’ in models of memory. An important element of this challenge is the realization that remembering agents typically recognize a range of different kinds of non-fictional, non-believed memories, e.g., memories originating in lies, trickery, dreams, hallucinations, illusions, etc.
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In memory of memory : a romance
\"With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. The family's pursuit of a quiet, civilized, ordinary life-during such atrocious times-is itself a strange odyssey. In dialogue with thinkers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various genres-essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and history-Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers a bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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California Forgets. Luna Remembers: Sensing contemporary Native American realities in James Luna's performance Native Stories: For Fun, Profit & Guilt
James Luna's multimedia performances are largely rooted in his culture and daily experience as a Pooyukitchchum (Luiseño) Indian living on La Jolla reservation north of San Diego, in Southern California. Informed by a polyphonic style, they interweave, converse and collide with various personal, collective, fictional, and non-fictional stories and discourses. This fluid and yet fractured approach incorporating visual, aural, written, and body language directly engages contemporary viewers through the resonances and dissonances of present and past, the physical presence of the artist's acting body, and through the immersive environment they are invited to share with the artist in the here-and-now of the performance site. This article is based on the performance Native Stories: For Fun, Profit & Guilt that James Luna presented in October 2014 in San Francisco during the Litquake festival featuring Sheila Tishmil Skinner and followed by a spoken-word monologue by Guillermo Gomez-Peña. It aims to highlight how Luna senses today's native people's experiences and how he mediates California's present and historical past. The play with metamorphosis, distortion, and dissonances, the slippages in various personae, along with the combination of technology-mediated devices, are some of the strategies he uses to trace the complexities of contemporary indigenous people's realities.
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Tying Memories into a Pattern: William Golding’s Free Fall as Autobiografiction and Trauma Narrative / William Golding’in Serbest Düşüş Romanının Kurgusal Otobiyografi ve Travma Anlatısı Olarak İncelemesi
William Golding’s 1959 Free Fall depicts the narrator/character Samuel Montjoy’s retrospective interrogation of his past in his “non-chronological” autobiography to understand his present self. His first-person narration is a journey into his memories presented according to their importance for him at different stages of his life (the narrated self) and shows the role of memory in shaping the present self (the narrating self). The narrator regulates his memories to conceive a coherent pattern in his autobiographical account which will also give meaning to his life and help construct a unified identity. However, he adopts a structure that has to rely on his remembering/forgetting, which problematizes the idea of constructing the self through unreliable memory. With this quality of the novel as an early example of the “fiction of memory,” Golding’s text is inventive and looks forward to contemporary narrative approaches to autobiographical writing. Free Fall has been widely studied as an existentialist novel due to the novelist’s questioning the concepts of freedom to choose and fall through the protagonist’s quest for self-knowledge. However, the aim of this study is to analyse Golding’s work as autobiografiction and trauma narrative where the text presents an account of the protagonist’s attempt for reconstructing the self through memories subject to his modifications and offers the therapeutic use of his self-narration.
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The unhappening of Genesis Lee
Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee does not remember meeting Kalan even though she is a Mementi, a genetically enhanced human who should be able to remember everything perfectly.
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Tying Memories into a Pattern: William Golding’s Free Fall as Autobiografiction and Trauma Narrative
William Golding’s 1959 Free Fall depicts the narrator/character Samuel Montjoy’s retrospective interrogation of his past in his “non-chronological” autobiography to understand his present self. His first-person narration is a journey into his memories presented according to their importance for him at different stages of his life (the narrated self) and shows the role of memory in shaping the present self (the narrating self). The narrator regulates his memories to conceive a coherent pattern in his autobiographical account which will also give meaning to his life and help construct a unified identity. However, he adopts a structure that has to rely on his remembering/forgetting, which problematizes the idea of constructing the self through unreliable memory. With this quality of the novel as an early example of the “fiction of memory,” Golding’s text is inventive and looks forward to contemporary narrative approaches to autobiographical writing. Free Fall has been widely studied as an existentialist novel due to the novelist’s questioning the concepts of freedom to choose and fall through the protagonist’s quest for self-knowledge. However, the aim of this study is to analyse Golding’s work as autobiografiction and trauma narrative where the text presents an account of the protagonist’s attempt for reconstructing the self through memories subject to his modifications and offers the therapeutic use of his self-narration.
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