ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I detail the four stages of the Currere toward Decolonizing (CTD) methodology and examine each of the five critical lenses of interrogation applied in the third stage of the CTD process: deconstruction, problematization, self-understanding, contradiction, and responding to the call. I also provide essential information about the critical constructivist epistemological foundation of the research in relation to its assertions on how one arrives at new conceptions of reality. I present the theory of this book in detail, explaining why my autobiographical experiences are interpreted through ideology which then implicates identity, marginality, knowledge, and power. I describe the role of memory as the most meaningful avenue of insight in this book even in light of its distortions and fallibilities, because of what it expresses about the colonized subject, and I explain how memory is then interrogated within the CTD methodology using critical discourse analysis.
