Still Here, 9780367193188
Hardcover
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.

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  • Hardcover

    270 pages

  • Release Date

    29 April 2019

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Summary

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 healin…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780367193188
ISBN-10:0367193183
Series:Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Author:Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:Routledge
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:270
Release Date:29 April 2019
Weight:535g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Bunty Avieson

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.

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