- Life narrative is a moving target/ set of shifting self-referential practices that engage the past in order to reflect on identity in the present (3)
- Re: Du Bois, A soliloquy on Viewing My life from the Last Decade of the 1st Century - Du Bois accepts the impossibility of recording only factual truth and turns tot he compensations of an inter subjectivity truth- part dream, promissory belief that invites the readers own interpretation.
- Memory Triggers: Dreams, photos, albums, objects, stories, genealogy, smell, touch, taste, sound, public documents
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller- Inter weaves herself as a creative and reverential voice bridging multiple cultures
- Context of memory is politically charged: who and what is authorized to remember
- Life narratives depend on memory that is constructed as records of acts of interpretation by subjects in a historical time and their relationship to their own changing past
- Story telling within an extended family binds a groups of disparate individuals together (site of story establishes expectations) but some things are celebrated, others shunned. Content that is shared varies accordingly
- Scriptotherapy
- Memorializing Lives
- Mediated through memory and language as an interpretation of the past
- Retrospectively make experience and convey it to others through storytelling
- Persuasion to belief is a fundamental component to story telling
- Identities change based on content, time, and individual
- Collective remembering: feeling of community by identifying with shared stories
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