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- Title
It’s All Come Down to Me: Meaning Making With Family Artifacts.
- Authors
Hocker, Joyce L.
- Abstract
The following autoethnography explores the author’s discoveries as she sorts through boxes of family photos, documents, and artifacts. The author confronts her initial resistance to taking on the work of the previous generations. As the process unfolds, the author discovers insights related to her current identity as the stories, full of memories and holes, emerge more clearly. The author’s insights are informed by feminist concerns of lost writing and lost stories, by family secrets and untold stories, and by how her own life emerges with more clarity as she illuminates the family stories. In the process, the author ponders memory and forgetting, discerns what to keep and what to burn, and in so doing, finds a dialogue with her ancestors.
- Subjects
ETHNOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTIQUITIES; FAMILIES; FEMINISM; GENDER role
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 10, p863
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800410383127