Not Quite Acceptable

Abstract

Re:membering can be used as a research tool for messing with notions of “self.” As a tool of autobiographical narrative, textual fragments may be useful in peacing/piecing together some ways in which memories efface and, alternatively, reinscribe themselves on postcetera (including, but not limited to, postmodern, poststructural, and postcolonial) identities. This article is inspired by two previous works by James Haywood Rolling, Jr., published in Qualitative Inquiry: “Messing Around With Identity Constructs: Pursuing a Poststructuralist and Poetic Aesthetic” and “Searching Self-Image: Identities to Be Self-Evident.” Through the use of bricolage as method, it is written as a response to “death” and as a re:generation of possibilities for disrupting identity constructs with/in autobiographical research writing.