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      Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss

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      Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss
      Edited ByBunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 2 May 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201707
      Pages 278
      eBook ISBN 9780429201707
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Language & Literature
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      Avieson, B., Giles, F., & Joseph, S. (Eds.). (2019). Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201707

      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

      chapter |13 pages

      Introduction

      Edited ByBunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph

      part Part I|2 pages

      Marginalities

      chapter 1|17 pages

      Rewriting the Ontological Self Following the Loss of the Communication Senses

      ByAnnmaree Watharow

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Memoir and Mental Disability

      A Call to Action
      ByIna Seethaler

      chapter 3|16 pages

      A Memoir on Writing Memoir

      Navigating the Past to Find Voice in the Present
      ByDanielle Wise

      part Part II|2 pages

      Histories

      chapter 4|19 pages

      Writing Trauma

      The Other Into the Story of the Self
      ByAnna Denejkina

      chapter 5|14 pages

      Modeling the Good Death in Memoir

      ByDonna Lee Brien

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Trauma’s Interior History

      Walt Whitman’s Civil War and Sequelae
      ByRobert J. Scholnick

      part Part III|2 pages

      Practices

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Listening with Feeling

      Emotional Labour and Digital Storytelling in Dementia Care Education
      ByNicole Matthews, Naomi Sunderland

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Survivor-to-Survivor Disaster Narration and Community Self-Healing

      ByCarl Lindahl

      chapter 9|16 pages

      Life Writing and Incremental Healing

      Word by Word, Year by Year
      BySue Joseph

      part Part IV|2 pages

      Ethics

      chapter 10|15 pages

      Investigating Ethics in the Young Widow Memoir

      ByKatrin Den Elzen

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres

      Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy
      ByEva-Sabine Zehelein

      chapter 12|17 pages

      ‘Spit Us Out Whole’

      Voicing the Double Wound in Carol Dine’s Places in the Bone: A Memoir
      ByCarolyn Rickett

      part Part V|2 pages

      Exile

      chapter 13|15 pages

      ‘Still Mauled but Constructive New Lives’

      Trauma Memoirs in Twentieth-Century American Prison Writing
      ByRavi Shankar

      chapter 14|14 pages

      Becoming Refugee

      Poetics and Politics of Representation and Displacement in Refugees’ Poetry
      ByKamal Sbiri

      chapter 15|17 pages

      A Call to Action

      Behrouz Boochani’s Manus Island Prison Narratives
      ByWilla McDonald
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