ABSTRACT
Chapter 2, “Fiction Theory: Beloved and Dictee as M/Others’ Rememories” introduces Beloved (1987/2004) and Dictee (1982/2001) that elude, blur, and bridge the division of fictional (non-scientific) and theoretical (scientific) worlds. This chapter documents the process of how these evocative and aesthetic texts offered haunting spaces and possibilities of affective onto-epistemological engagements to work through and write this project. Through the themes of maternal lineages, daughterly yearning, death and life, secrets, traumas, wounds, and connections, Rhee works to show how stammering, discontinuity, and seemingly incongruent juxtapositions are indeed possibilities and potentials for making sense and narrating connectivity in our shared postcolonial reality (Coloma, 2009; Daza & Tuck, 2014; Rhee & Subreenduth, 2006; Subedi & Daza, 2008).
