Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss

ISBN-13: 9781032092966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Bunty Avieson; Fiona Giles; Sue Joseph

Opis

Exploring the history and range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, displacement, and other experiences of trauma, this book includes studies of intergenerational trauma; the therapeutic potential of trauma memoir; its ethical challenges; and trauma memoir giving voice to minority experiences.

Spis treści

Part I Marginalities  1. Rewriting the Ontological Self-Following the Loss of the Communication Senses   2. Memoir and Mental Disability: A Call to Action  3. A Memoir on Writing Memoir: Navigating the Past to Find Voice in the Present  Part II Histories  4. Writing Trauma: The Other Into the Story of The Self   5. Modelling The Good Death in Memoir  6. Trauma’s Interior History: Walt Whitman’s Civil War and Sequelae  Part III Practices 7. Listening With Feeling: Emotional Labour and Digital Storytelling in Dementia Care Education  8. Survivor to Survivor Story-Telling After Hurricane Katrina  9. Life-Writing and Incremental Healing: Word By Word, Year By Year  Part IV Ethics  10. Investigating Ethics in the Young Widow Memoir  11. Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres: Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy  12. Spit Us Out Whole: Voicing the Double Wound in Carol Dine’s Places in the Bone: A Memoir   Part V Exile  13. ‘Still Mauled but Constructive New Lives’: Trauma Memoirs in 20th Century American Prison Writing  14. Becoming Refugee: Poetics and Politics of Representation and Displacement in Refugees’ poetry  15. A Call to Action: Behrouz Boochani Manus Island Prison Narratives

 

O autorze

Dr. Bunty Avieson is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Fiona Giles is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Sue Joseph is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney.