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Materiality & Memory

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As a scholar, I work primarily with the material text and seek to better understand how the material way a work is presented changes our reception of it. So it is with some sadness that I accept the scant material traces that my grandmother left behind: two photos (here), a yearbook, a recipe box. Most of what was went away (where?) in the confusion after her death. The rest is consigned to the shifting graveyard dirt of memory, which I'll explicate here as much as needed to supplement my scant archive—to help make it legible to you.

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This is my grandmother, Helen Seaks. She was born in 1911 and died in 2004, both in Hampstead, Maryland (a town then little more than a cluster of buildings huddled around a dirt road, only 23 years old). [more about Hampstead, Helen]

This is my mother, Betty Seaks. This is my sister, Stacey Saunders. 

 

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  1. Introduction Sean Gill