Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent developments in literary and life writing scholarship have interrogated the division and hierarchy between subject and object or human and non-human. This material turn interests me as it suggests a desire to re-make the relationship between autobiographical subjectivity and inanimate objects as well as an attempt to explore the power of spaces and objects in autobiographical writing. This essay will take the example of a small suitcase, which I received after the death of my father, to examine the role of everyday objects in life writing and how things re-present us to ourselves. Using thing theory and insights from material culture studies, my essay will both unfold a personal narrative and explore a series of questions about objects and autobiography.
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