Assembling of History Puzzles Through Memory
Memoirs are magnificent pieces of history that allows us to step into a whole different part of history and enables us to relive history through the portrayal of one’s perspective. Although memoirs can leave an everlasting impression of past history, it can be faulty to use as a historical factual piece as memory can be faulty of past information. Memoirs play an important role just as much as interpreting the past using “historical scientific facts”, but deep consideration of influence of perspectives needs to take place when putting the puzzles of history together.
In the article of Ethnobiological memoir and memory (2016), it highlights the strengths of memoirs and the influence that it holds …show more content…
Embodied Memoir and Memory is written by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim that is Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She wrote the memoir, Among the White Moon Faces (Feminist Press). Memoirs are a source of relief from hard and horrible experiences, Lim describes her emotion after writing her memoir as a source of relief, “felt as if a water blister had been pricked, and the fluid of that life event leaked out” . Lim’s perspective on writing memoirs supports the idea of importance of memoirs for the writer as well as the knowledge of the reader. Lim describes the memories that are used to writer memoirs are not random, “The secrecy of memory, its residence in the skull case of an individual, the profoundly binding identification of story with self—the psychological integrity of memory—is irrevocably changed in composition”2 Memories of the past are real feeling that are seen and felt to great magnitude even years after an experience. It is reoccurring flashbacks that are intensified with details that are engrained in an individual’s brain which is why it is a way of coping as it is turned into narrative composition. Memoirs offer detailed perspective of each memory so that readers are able to feel every word and are put in the context of the situation from different perspective unlike historical scholarship …show more content…
Left to tell is a memoir of the Rwandan genocide written by Immaculee’, whom survived the horrors of the genocide through the strength of her faith. In left to tell, Immaculee’s portrays the theme of forgiveness through her strong communication with god. She prays for forgiveness from God and realizes that “the people who’d hurt my family had hurt themselves even more, and they deserved my pity” The perspective of left to tell is created to tie in the correlation of faith and it tells us that despite the horrors of the genocide, Immaculee was spared by god to tell the history of her people and what took place during the 3 month killings spree of the tootsies. The issues that memoir poses as a historical content is the depth of the role her faith that was the focus though out the duration of the book. One of the issues is that surfaces if that the reality & horror of the genocide was masked by her faith and strength to
Memoirs are magnificent pieces of history that allows us to step into a whole different part of history and enables us to relive history through the portrayal of one’s perspective. Although memoirs can leave an everlasting impression of past history, it can be faulty to use as a historical factual piece as memory can be faulty of past information. Memoirs play an important role just as much as interpreting the past using “historical scientific facts”, but deep consideration of influence of perspectives needs to take place when putting the puzzles of history together.
In the article of Ethnobiological memoir and memory (2016), it highlights the strengths of memoirs and the influence that it holds …show more content…
Embodied Memoir and Memory is written by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim that is Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She wrote the memoir, Among the White Moon Faces (Feminist Press). Memoirs are a source of relief from hard and horrible experiences, Lim describes her emotion after writing her memoir as a source of relief, “felt as if a water blister had been pricked, and the fluid of that life event leaked out” . Lim’s perspective on writing memoirs supports the idea of importance of memoirs for the writer as well as the knowledge of the reader. Lim describes the memories that are used to writer memoirs are not random, “The secrecy of memory, its residence in the skull case of an individual, the profoundly binding identification of story with self—the psychological integrity of memory—is irrevocably changed in composition”2 Memories of the past are real feeling that are seen and felt to great magnitude even years after an experience. It is reoccurring flashbacks that are intensified with details that are engrained in an individual’s brain which is why it is a way of coping as it is turned into narrative composition. Memoirs offer detailed perspective of each memory so that readers are able to feel every word and are put in the context of the situation from different perspective unlike historical scholarship …show more content…
Left to tell is a memoir of the Rwandan genocide written by Immaculee’, whom survived the horrors of the genocide through the strength of her faith. In left to tell, Immaculee’s portrays the theme of forgiveness through her strong communication with god. She prays for forgiveness from God and realizes that “the people who’d hurt my family had hurt themselves even more, and they deserved my pity” The perspective of left to tell is created to tie in the correlation of faith and it tells us that despite the horrors of the genocide, Immaculee was spared by god to tell the history of her people and what took place during the 3 month killings spree of the tootsies. The issues that memoir poses as a historical content is the depth of the role her faith that was the focus though out the duration of the book. One of the issues is that surfaces if that the reality & horror of the genocide was masked by her faith and strength to