Memory Rehearsal

Memory Rehearsal is a genre-bending book by Eleni Sikelianos that files between memoir, poetry, and hybrid nonfiction, excavating the life of her great-grandmother and ancestral histories.

The work incorporates archival photographs, performance scripts, poetry, and prose to reflect on rehearsal, performance, and the limits of recovering the past.

Sikelianos uses a chimeric form to resist a linear A-to-Z narrative, allowing fragments and gaps to hold meaning and invite reader engagement.

Themes include identity, erasure, the ethics of representation, and the performative labor of reviving ancient rituals.

The book foregrounds how form emerges from subject matter and how hybrid structures can reveal layered, multi-temporal truths.