Onuoha & Olufunwa, ŃDUÑỌDE: Vol. 17, No.1, January, 2020 (pp. 71-88) 71 MEMORY GLEANING AS STYLE AND INITIATING OF CRAFT: IN IBEZUTE’S REDISCOVERING MY MISSION Onyekachi Peter ONUOHA Department of English and Literary Studies University of Calabar, Calabar Email: Onyekachidara@unical.edu.ng onyekachidara@gmail.com Https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-8139 & Harry OLUFUNWA Department of English and Literary Studies Federal University, Oye-Ekiti holufunwa@fuoye.edu.ng ORCID:0000-0002-5555-548x Abstract Reading is a process of acquiring memory of a literary tradition and a psychological positioning of self. Gleaning from memory is a stylistic presentation of materials of memory through the structure of art. This study explores memory gleaning as style and initiating of craft in the autobiography of Ibezute‟s Rediscovering My Mission. Through the application of trauma theory, memory and style as a concept, this paper observes that gleaning is a process of autobiographical narrative in Ibezute‟s Rediscovering My Mission and is mediated through the craft of internal structure and sequencing of autobiographical memories. This study further notes that the Nigerian Civil War referent and enables the writer‟s creativity in Rediscovering My Mission. This study submits that memory piling, via the framework of reading the Nigerian Civil War narratives, awakens the writer‟s creativity and induces his memory in other narratives far away from the sites of his hurt into other creative literature. Keywords: Memory, Autobiography, Gleaning, Style, Trauma, And Nigerian Civil War.