Stylised Configurations of Trauma: Faking Identity in Holocaust Memoirs

Miller, Alyson

doi:10.1515/arcadia-2014-0022

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“…This idea of narrating trauma as a healing process provides a powerful motivation for writing such memoirs, and provides a foil to the numerous charges of authors being primarily motivated by fame and fortune. Here it is, of course, cognate to mention investigations into the consequences when misery memorists are caught exaggerating or lying in terms of the content of their work or their own identities (Brien 2002, Miller 2012, however the focus herein is on ostensibly authentic narratives of misery and trauma and their reception.…”

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‘First the misery, then the trauma’: the Australian trauma memoir

Brien

2017

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This article focuses on the trauma memoir as an identifiable type of creative writing. It begins by tracing its popularity, especially in the 1990s, in the process recognising what can be proposed as key works internationally, many of which-but not all-are American, as well as how these texts were received by critics and readers, in order to place the Australian trauma memoir in this broader context. The so-called 'misery memoir' is also discussed. As little investigation has focused on the Australian trauma memoir as a form of memoir, this article will profile some (mostly recent) examples of Australian trauma memoir in order to begin to investigate what these texts contribute to our understanding of the trauma memoir as a form of creative writing. This recognises debates over the literary and social value of memoirs.

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‘First the misery, then the trauma’: the Australian trauma memoir

Brien

2017

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Stylised Configurations of Trauma: Faking Identity in Holocaust Memoirs

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