So, when I wasn’t able to produce ideas and words, I took out Marianne Hirsch’s The Generation of Postmemory (2012) and wrote out a few paragraphs or pages.
For instance, when I was writing a paper on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and the theory of postmemory a few years back, there were times when I got stuck. I couldn’t quite know how exactly I would read the novel through the lens of postmemory. So, when I wasn’t able to produce ideas and words, I took out Marianne Hirsch’s The Generation of Postmemory (2012) and wrote out a few paragraphs or pages. This method helped me: