Still here : memoirs of trauma, illness and loss / edited by Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph.
"Still Here . . . investigates the role and practices in contemporary culture of memoir focusing on illness, death, loss and other experiences of trauma; writing as cure, therapy, or healing narrative. Editors, Sue Joseph, Bunty Avieson and Fiona Giles have broght together this collection of sc...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;
98. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Still Here . . . investigates the role and practices in contemporary culture of memoir focusing on illness, death, loss and other experiences of trauma; writing as cure, therapy, or healing narrative. Editors, Sue Joseph, Bunty Avieson and Fiona Giles have broght together this collection of scholarly essays that provide 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages). |
| ISBN: | 0429510373 9780429510373 |