Tag Archives: Memory

Little Feet, Big Heart

Maxine Hong Kingston’s struggle with identity can be traced explicitly to her childhood in White Tiger.  In the first paragraph of this chapter, she writes innocently that “perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet … Continue reading

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A Virginian Girlhood

Southern Virginia is enough to make anyone confused about whether they are from the North or the South. Black or white didn’t seem as important as southern or northern, even though the actual area was a mix of northerners who … Continue reading

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Adventure Musings

(the autobiographical travelogue of Olivia Rae James) For my 20 percent project, I made an autobiographical travelogue that documents my travels through photos and text. Whenever I travel I take photos and write daily, even if it’s just a snapshot … Continue reading

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Not So “Self-Reflexive about the Problem of Remembering”

I think that one of the most important of Smith and Watson’s concepts that applies to Cabeza de Vaca’s narrative of his travels in the Americas is memory. Some classmates have made the argument that his entire autobiographical account is … Continue reading

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Cabeza de Vaca’s Conscious Forgetting

As Smith and Watson discuss in the Reading Autobiography, the narratorial strategies which self-writers employ often “attend to the role of remembering–and conscious forgetting–in the act of making meaning out of the past and the present” (30). As de Vaca … Continue reading

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Memory Revisted

I have claimed that life is all about having fun and making memories. The logic behind this idea is that our time on this earth is limited, and therefore we should make the most of it. When you are 75 … Continue reading

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The Mysterious “Self”: Autobiographical Subjectivity

Personally, I resist the idea that Smith and Watson continually make in their book Reading Autobiography, suggesting that a “self” is not unique, but rests on the basis of pre-determined languages and politics, influences, etc. While it is true that … Continue reading

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