Memory

Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel turns a mother - daughter care conflict into a study of memory, maternal ambivalence, and the limits of reconciliation.

Stevenson examines care in the Canadian Arctic through the gap between managing a population’s survival and attending to particular lives and relationships.

Ueno examines women’s incorporation into the nation, survivor testimony and feminist disputes over responsibility in the revised Japanese edition.

Mukasonga remembers her mother's survival work, storytelling and an unfulfilled farewell, asking how care can be honored without making sacrifice women's duty.

A collective autobiography capturing the passage of time in French society from the post-war period to the present. A masterpiece by the Nobel Prize winner, inventing a new form of impersonally intimate narrative.

Veena Das follows violence into everyday relations, asking how voice, acknowledgment and the work of inhabiting a damaged world reshape accounts of agency.

Cheryl Dunye’s invented archive asks who can make Black lesbian history credible, linking documentary conventions, licensing costs and unequal queer intimacy.

Julie Dash makes women’s memory and migration a question of historical authorship through nonlinear time, an unborn child and the material traces of slavery.