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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Fighting Against Forgetting

T2 - Remembering the Places Where My Relationship With My Father Came Into Being

AU - Clarke, Daniel Wade

N1 - The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

PY - 2017/7/1

Y1 - 2017/7/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Beautiful autoethnography

KW - Death

KW - Loss

KW - Memory-work

KW - Son–father relations

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85020813168

U2 - 10.1177/1077800416673662

DO - 10.1177/1077800416673662

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85020813168

SN - 1077-8004

VL - 23

SP - 473

EP - 477

JO - Qualitative Inquiry

JF - Qualitative Inquiry

IS - 6

ER -