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ABSTRACT
Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following Hurricane Katrina, from social media posts from a refugee detention centre, to poetry by exiles fleeing war zones, the collection investigates trauma memoir writing as healing, as documentation of suffering and disability, and as political activism. Editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph have brought together this scholarly collection as a sequel to their earlier Mediating Memory (Routledge 2018), providing a closer look at the specific concerns of trauma memoir, including conflict and intergenerational trauma; the therapeutic potential and risks of trauma life writing; its ethical challenges; and trauma memoir giving voice to minority experiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|2 pages
Marginalities
chapter 1|17 pages
Rewriting the Ontological Self Following the Loss of the Communication Senses
chapter 3|16 pages
A Memoir on Writing Memoir
part Part II|2 pages
Histories
chapter 6|14 pages
Trauma’s Interior History
part Part III|2 pages
Practices
chapter 7|14 pages
Listening with Feeling
part Part IV|2 pages
Ethics
chapter 11|13 pages
Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres
chapter 12|17 pages
‘Spit Us Out Whole’
part Part V|2 pages
Exile