How Do We Live with Painful Memories?: Remembering Past, Redeeming Community

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In this paper, I weave narrative theories with an autobiographical story in order to show and substantiate theoretical flow by the narrative itself. The important theme of narrative studies is related to a psychosocial function of memory in narrative fiction. I analyze Helie Lee’s novel, Still life with Rice, in which Helie connects between memory and a narrative through her grandmother’s autobiographical memory. She challenges the reader to understand that the redemptive potential of the memory of human story which is full of suffering, joy, grief, hope, and regret. I argue that by listening her story we realize and connect our lives in the very capacity of memory which hold all those who suffer and struggle. After the analysis of the novel and narrative theory, I observe the communal experiences of narrative remembering, and examines possibility of constructing meaning through narrative and see how human emotion function in this meaning making process. I claim that the very act of remembering and storytelling are redeeming. Storytelling has the power to transform persons and communities of faith into signs of the presence of Divine.

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