The Sense of Memory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3947010
AutoresAli (0000-0002-8616-0376, autor de correspondencia), Suki Ali
Año2012
Volumen100
Número1
Páginas88-105
Fecha de publicación2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2011.71
OpenAlexW2041402403
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas23

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competing accounts of 'private' memories of racialisation that come from mixed-race siblings growing up in a mainly white town. Drawing on interviews, the paper uses familial narratives and their individual telling, to show how sense is made of divergent experiences and memories of childhood and teenage in 1960s and 1970s Britain. The paper shows how narrative accounts are often negotiated through multiple senses, revealing them as both imagined and recalled, contested and negotiated. The paper considers the strengths and limitations of narrative analysis in understanding the relationship between individual and collective memories at both national and familial levels. It argues that the ways in which the social and personal memories are connected in the processes of subjectivation are unstable and opaque, and can only ever be partially known through the process of narrativisation

Aesthetics · Collective memory · Epistemology · Literature · Memory work · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology