Call for Submissions
Memory has historically been weaponized by colonialism to "mutilat[e] the memory of the colonized; and where that failed, it dismembered it, and then tried to re-member it to the colonizer's memory" (wa Thiong'o 108). To re-member is an active, defiant project: it means putting back together what has been intentionally dismembered and disfigured by colonial mechanisms. Our use of the slash in Re/Membrance signifies this necessary adjacency between the practice of doing again (re-) and the act of piecing back together (-member).
We seek literary representations of memory and re/membrance as restorative or radical processes, such as how they enable a precolonial past to be reclaimed, Indigenous ways of knowing and being to be revitalized into resurgance, queer modes of being to be reconstituted, and ecologies and temporalities to be revisited.
Abstract deadline: February 9, 2026
Submit to: westerngesgradconference@gmail.com
