The process and project of rememory (after Toni Morrison’s Beloved, 1987) may be linked with a politics of hope – to exorcise, to move on, to empower; rememories are emergent ‘sites of feeling’ capable of triggering bodily reactions and emotional responses. This article takes stock of some emergent traces of post-conflict materialities that can be explored through storytelling, in this case, of the civil war between fascists and anti-fascists in Italy during the Second World War (1943–1945). The author reflects on the cathartic capacity of rememory through two wartime storytelling ‘experiments’. In a town square, the Surviving Thing is the handed-down memory of two executions, one on each side, haunting the place but without physical in situ traces of those acts. In 2014, veteran fascists and anti-fascists and their descendants re-enacted violent episodes on both sides that had left no visible or tangible traces. They used spatial clues in archival photographs, triangulating the traces to conjure up spectral geographies of death on both political sides, to ‘get closure’. In another example, a Surviving Thing is present as a physical object (a letter) without mnemonic trace. In 2012, an ex-partisan paid tribute to unsung heroes of the local resistance by writing an open letter that commemorated their bravery. While also looking for closure (or perhaps an opening up?), she wrote to dispel the oblivion to which history banished the boys’ actions – to fill an absence with an affectual presence. The well-thumbed sheet is thus animated in the moment of witnessing through a loving act of rememory. The two post-conflict sites reveal something of the affectual and cathartic capacity of traces that survive and those that do not. Overall, rememories perform intangible affects that frame the nuanced social legacies of conflict, while the ‘experiments’ embody the centrality of storytelling to the material culture of post-conflict societies.

过程和rememory的项目（后托妮·莫里森的宠儿（1987年）可能与希望政治联系在一起–驱魔，前进，赋权；记忆是能够触发身体反应和情感反应的新兴“感觉场所”。本文总结了冲突后实质性的一些新兴痕迹，可以通过讲故事来探讨，在这种情况下，是第二次世界大战（1943-1945年）期间意大利法西斯与反法西斯之间的内战。作者通过两次战时讲故事的“实验”来反思记忆的宣泄能力。在一个城镇广场上，幸存的东西是两个死刑犯的流传下来的记忆，每一个死刑犯在每个地方徘徊，但没有这些行为的现场痕迹。在2014年，老将法西斯和反法西斯及其后裔重新颁布了已经离开两侧发生的暴力事件没有可见或有形的痕迹。他们在档案照片中使用了空间线索，对痕迹进行了三角剖分，以勾勒出双方政治方面的死亡地理分布，从而“实现封闭”。在另一个示例中，幸存事物作为没有助记符跟踪的物理对象（字母）存在。2012年，一名前党派通过写一封公开信来纪念他们的英勇行为，向当地抵抗运动的无名英雄致敬。她还在寻求封闭（或开放？）的同时，写信消除了历史history弃男孩行为的遗忘-用情感的存在填补缺席。因此，精心制作的床单通过亲切的回忆行动在见证的那一刻变得生动起来。冲突后的两个地点揭示了幸存痕迹和不幸存痕迹的情感和宣泄能力。总体，