Still Here

Dr. Bunty Avieson is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

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.

Part I Marginalities 1. Rewriting the Ontological Self-Following the Loss of the Communication Senses 2. Memoir and Mental Disability: A Call to Action 3. A Memoir on Writing Memoir: Navigating the Past to Find Voice in the Present Part II Histories 4. Writing Trauma: The Other Into the Story of The Self 5. Modelling The Good Death in Memoir 6. Trauma's Interior History: Walt Whitman's Civil War and Sequelae Part III Practices 7. Listening With Feeling: Emotional Labour and Digital Storytelling in Dementia Care Education 8. Survivor to Survivor Story-Telling After Hurricane Katrina 9. Life-Writing and Incremental Healing: Word By Word, Year By Year Part IV Ethics 10. Investigating Ethics in the Young Widow Memoir 11. Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres: Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy 12. Spit Us Out Whole: Voicing the Double Wound in Carol Dine's Places in the Bone: A Memoir Part V Exile 13. 'Still Mauled but Constructive New Lives': Trauma Memoirs in 20th Century American Prison Writing 14. Becoming Refugee: Poetics and Politics of Representation and Displacement in Refugees' poetry 15. A Call to Action: Behrouz Boochani Manus Island Prison Narratives