Fighting Against Forgetting: Remembering the Places Where My Relationship With My Father Came Into Being

Daniel Wade Clarke

doi:10.1177/1077800416673662

Fighting Against Forgetting: Remembering the Places Where My Relationship With My Father Came Into Being

Daniel Wade Clarke (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

When cancer took my dad’s last breath, I was left with the fear that all the dark memories of our relationship might crowd out and overshadow some of my delightful son–father memories. Haunted by the fear of forgetting all those “good” memories, focusing on where they were created, I write into being some of the beautiful moments I want to preserve. Providing examples from my work of memory, the purpose is to show that we do not need to start with dark backgrounds before brighter futures can emerge. What happens when only mundane, beautiful memories are preserved is also considered.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	473-477
Number of pages	5
Journal	Qualitative Inquiry
Volume	23
Issue number	6
Early online date	19 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416673662
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2017

Keywords

Beautiful autoethnography
Death
Loss
Memory-work
Son–father relations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anthropology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

UN SDGs

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