Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Avieson, Bunty
• Giles, Fiona
• Joseph, Sue

Titel

Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss investigates the role and practices in contemporary culture of memoir focusing on illness, death, loss, and other experiences of trauma, and writing as cure, therapy, or healing narrative. Editors Sue Joseph, Bunty Avieson, and Fiona Giles have brought together this collection of scholarly essays that provides an overview of the areas which trauma memoir has tended to cover: for example, conflict and intergenerational trauma, the therapeutic benefits (or otherwise) of trauma life writing, the ethics of trauma memoir, and trauma memoir that gives voice to minority experiences. 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.