Nina McConigley – Speak, memory: Retrospective Narration (July 2023)

Retrospective narrators set their own terms, offer testimony, reshape memories, and process trauma. Drawing from Kazuo Ishiguro, Arundhati Roy, Harper Lee, Ocean Vuong, and others, McConigley explores retrospective narration as an act of reclaiming control for and by characters who are outsiders, have been disenfranchised, or whose stories have been written over by a more powerful voice.