Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory

Echoic survivals: Re-documenting pre-1975 Vietnamese music as historical sound/tracks of re-membering

“…Like song composers, I see my interlocutor as a storyteller; as such, I did a close reading of each of his answers, examining how these narratives are sources for re-membering not only himself but also others. This is consistent to how Gayle Greene (1991) sees feminist narratives as methods that promote change and liberation, reiterating how narrative "re-collects, remembers, repeats" (p. 291). While these narratives are not inherently feminist, these conversations are reminders that re-membering is part of an imbalanced political structure used to suppress and oppress the subjugated other.…”

Reading Nostalgia, Anger, and the Home in Joyce Carol Oates’s Foxfire

“…Although the home figures prominently in reflective nostalgia, Boym explains that this "home is in ruins, or, on the contrary, has just been renovated and gentrified beyond recognition" (50). While feminist theorists have long been critical of nostalgia (Greene 1991;Martin and Mohanty 1986;McDermott 2002), more recent theorizations of reflective nostalgia are tremendously useful for feminist projects. For example, reflective nostalgia allows Maddy to move between time, place, and perspectives over the course of the narrative.…”

The Third Reich in the Pages of the American Journal of Nursing, 1932–1950

“…14 "Memory is our means of connecting past and present and constructing a self and versions of experience we can live with." 15 The organization of memory is a process of validation. The stories of nursing under the Third Reich have the power to shape nursing's collective identity with exemplars of heroism and resistance, and glimpses into the profession's ethical vulnerabilities.…”