Exhuming the good that men do
The play of the mnemonic imagination in the making of an autoethnographic text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5148075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Goode (0000-0003-0941-1036, Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1645-1667 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x18787645 |
| OpenAlex | W2887542020 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper, which is an autoethnographic text in its own right, examines class, gender and education through highlighting the processes at work and the resources drawn upon in the making of autoethnographic texts. At its centre is a poem about my father, which acts as an illustration of how such artefacts exert agency across time, through the play of what Keighley and Pickering refer to as 'the mnemonic imagination', enabling a re-interpretation of the past in the present and on into the future. Using the work of feminist scholars Steedman and Walkerdine, the paper offers an insight into the way cultural analyses and 'affective histories' make sense of the fortunes of a 'Scholarship Girl'. At the same time, in exhuming an instance of the good that men do in the form of a crucial intervention in my life by my father, it pays homage to what the poet Robert Hayden called the performance of 'love's austere and lonely offices' plus
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Autoethnography · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Girl · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Mnemonic · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Investigating subjectivity
The presence of the past
The Mnemonic Imagination
Researching Social Change
Temporal comparison theory.
Writing the Self
Disrupted Lives
Individualization
Of dinosaurs and divas
Fashioning the sixties
Reading the rereadings
Affect and discourse - What's the problem? From affect as excess to affective/discursive practice
Expectations about re-entering the weekly cycle following disruption by familial death or holiday
Nostalgia and the social perception of the past
What does the duration of belonging tell us about the temporal self
Time, temporality and cultural rhythmics
Parents' Hopes and Expectations for Their Children's Future Occupations
Belonging from afar
Affective History, Working-Class Communities and Self-Determination
Being One's Own Honoured Guest
Incognito Ergo Sum
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |