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For my primary texts, I take up works by the following authors: Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Nancy Kricorian, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Michael J. Arlen, Susan Abulhawa, Hala Alyan, Jean Said Makdisi, Tommy Orange, Susan Power, Linda Hogan, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In terms of structure, in Chapter One, I rearticulate an emerging framework on “settler mnemonics” to identify the novelists and memoirists whose works I study as witnesses to disappearing history. Political scientist Kevin Bruyneel coins “settler mnemonics” to articulate how the US nation-state remembers its founding in Indigenous territorial disposition. For my dissertation, I adapt this concept to the study of narrative form across these literary canons. Having laid the groundwork through my discussion on settler mnemonics, Chapters Two through Four proffer conceptualizations of what I call “nested memory,” a rubric that articulates the structure of the multigenerational transmission of memory in the face of the recursivity of collective trauma. In developing this framework, I draw upon the depiction of the space-time nexus in Nancy Kricorian’s prose poem “Homage to Bourj Hammoud” and Mohawk theorist Audra Simpson’s concept of “nested sovereignty.” As my analyses of novels and memoirs further illustrate, the notion of nesting also accounts for the ways in which memory work unfolds in place and how memories are emplaced. 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In developing this framework, I draw upon the depiction of the space-time nexus in Nancy Kricorian’s prose poem “Homage to Bourj Hammoud” and Mohawk theorist Audra Simpson’s concept of “nested sovereignty.” As my analyses of novels and memoirs further illustrate, the notion of nesting also accounts for the ways in which memory work unfolds in place and how memories are emplaced. 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