Still Here : Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss Hardback
Edited by Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
Part of the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2019
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- ISBN:9780367193188
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2019
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- ISBN:9780367193188