ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the authors contemplate the partial truths made and the imaginings produced in the entanglement of humans and places of remembrance. Asserting that built spaces are texts, they theorize with Ellsworth (2005) that buildings and memorials can be pedagogical sites in which bodies—preconceived as stable, bound, and hemmed up—“fray” into indeterminacy. They use collage, poetry, and academic and reflective journaling to construct a fraying text that considers intra-actions of learning bodies, built spaces, remembrance, and notions of textual materiality and immateriality.