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Disclosure Interviews Marianne Hirsch. Intimacy Across The Generations: Memory, Postmemory, And Representation
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
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Memory-Craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals, Tammy Powley
Memory-Craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals, Tammy Powley
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The term "memory-craft" refers to arts and crafts media where personal memorabilia and journaling are combined and assembled into book form. Examples of memory-crafts include scrapbooks, art journals, and altered books. Traditionally, women have been the primary assemblers of memory-crafts, using this form as a method of autobiography and genealogical archiving. Memory-crafting is often associated with the amateur home-crafter, and while historians have long understood its cultural significance, academia has not properly considered memory-craft as a type of alternative discourse. The purpose of this study is to examine the use of memory-crafting as a non-traditional method of writing, especially among …