Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood: The Girls of Nazareth House Remember

ISBN-13: 9783319640389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 219 str.

Delyth Edwards

Opis

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Starting from a place of familial memory.- Chapter 2. The Abused Orphan: Memory as legitimate and national heritage.- Chapter 3. A Methodology of Remembering: The self who was, the self who is and the self who narrates.- Chapter 4. Remembering a Home of Origin: Creating Places through memory.- Chapter 5. Remembering that feeling of Not Being at Home (in the world).- Chapter 6. The space between.- Chapter 7. Absent Memories: An Autobiographical and methodological dilemma?.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Managing memory in the care system today.

O autorze

Delyth Edwards is a lecturer in the Sociology of Childhood and Youth at Liverpool Hope University, UK.