1st Edition
Still Here Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss
Introduction
Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, and Sue Joseph
Part I Marginalities
1. Rewriting the Ontological Self-Following the Loss of the Communication Senses¿¿
Annmaree Watharow¿
2. Memoir and Mental Disability: A Call to Action¿
Ina Seethaler¿
3. A Memoir on Writing Memoir: Navigating the Past to Find Voice in the Present
Danielle Wise¿
Part II Histories
4. Writing Trauma: The Other Into the Story of The Self¿
Anna Denejkina¿¿
5. Modelling The Good Death in Memoir
Donna Lee Brien¿
6. Trauma’s Interior History: Walt Whitman’s Civil War and Sequelae
Bob Scholnick
Part III Practices
7. Listening With Feeling: Emotional Labour and Digital Storytelling in Dementia Care Education
Nicole Matthews and Naomi Sutherland¿
8. Survivor to Survivor Story-Telling After Hurricane Katrina
Carl Lindahl
9. Life-Writing and Incremental Healing: Word by Word, Year by Year¿¿
Sue Joseph¿
Part IV Ethics
10.¿Investigating Ethics in the Young Widow Memoir¿¿
Katrin Den Elzin¿
11. Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres: Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy¿
Eva-Sabine Zehelein¿
12. Spit Us Out Whole: Voicing the Double Wound in Carol Dine’s Places in the Bone: A Memoir¿¿¿
Carolyn Rickett¿
Part V Exile
13. ‘Still Mauled but Constructive New Lives’: Trauma Memoirs in 20th Century American Prison Writing
Ravi Shankar¿
14. Becoming Refugee: Poetics and Politics of Representation and Displacement in Refugees’ poetry¿
Kamal Sbiri
15. A Call to Action: Behrouz Boochani Manus Island Prison Narratives
Willa McDonald
Biography
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.
