Creating a stink : memory and affect in the writing of ‘The Stinker’

Spinoza identifies memory as central to all human endeavour. In this article, I explore the diverse kinds of remembering that informed the writing of my award-winning Gothic short story ‘The Stinker’ (2006). I utilize approaches from the fields of cultural studies and the emergent, transdisciplinary arena of memory studies to explore the myriad embodied and emplaced memories that influenced the story’s production. I contend that the interrelationship of these varieties of remembering ought to be understood in a processual rather than dynamic fashion. The article is followed by the text of ‘The Stinker’.