The Point of the Thing

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Abstract

This personal essay, and accompanying contextualising statement, is underpinned by two related propositions. First, that personal narratives have the potential to conceptualise the power that objects, particularly those that circulate in families and intimate spaces, can exert over individuals and their practices of autobiographical remembering. And second, that seeking to understand this power can be a way to understand the past more deeply as part of a process with cathartic and/or healing potentials. It considers a set of inherited objects that have, for me, long held a powerful attraction: a suitcase of things belonging to my late grandfather, which are closely connected to the family stories I heard about him growing up.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages10
JournalAxon: Creative Explorations
Volume11
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

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