Postcolonial M/Othering: Poetics of Remembering and Writing as an Invitation to Rememory

Abstract

To open up possibilities in inquiry, the authors write in a manner that extends a lens of postcolonial m/Othering through poetic autoethnography. They draw on the conceptualization of rememory to work with/through memories of their own as mothers for the sake of daughters. Building on poetics of remembering, the authors braid their experiences from Kenya and the Philippines, within remnants of colonialism and its tentacles, inviting the reader on a telling-sharing dialogic-rhythmic-groove that is personal and political and haunting at the same time. The possibilities for transdisciplinary methodologies unfold in the telling-sharing and point to the in-between curiosities of knowing and unknowing. This collaborative and creative (re)membering is an invitation to rememory, to rework the past-present-future, a chance at world-making.