Remembering Into Being: Ecowomanism, Womanist Theology, and Memory

Peter Gaál-Szabó

doi:10.2478/rjes-2022-0015

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Remembering Into Being: Ecowomanism, Womanist Theology, and Memory

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 19 (2022): Issue 1 (November 2022)

By: Peter Gaál-Szabó

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Abstract

The paper investigates the ecowomanist memory work based on context, integration, and relationality evoking a strategy of bonding through remembering. Reconstructing knowledge establishes an interstructure, which enables ecowomanists to remember themselves into being while deploying the mnemonic text as countermemory. The overriding of the fragmentation of the memory text is aided by the restorative activity in/through nature that contributes to a sense of completeness.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2022-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 121 - 128

Published on: Dec 16, 2022

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

African American ecomemory,

cultural memory and trauma,

ecowomanism,

womanist theology

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other,

Germanic languages,

English

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