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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"family trauma"”.
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SCREAM IF YOU CAN
… young woman. The memoir explores themes of family, trauma, and perseverance. Biculturalism and disability are explored alongside the use of education to make a better life for oneself.</p>
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Dispatch
… (colonialism, witness/documentation, cultural trauma/memory) while the final section shifts to consider some of these same issues locally (family trauma, memory, identity, place).</p>
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Another City
… City is a collection of poetry that explores family trauma and the role of the imagination as an alternative to grim reality.
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What we can't avoid
… that explores the narrator's excavation of family dynamics, and who her parents are and grow to become as she comes into adulthood. This memoir is a collection of personal essays that come together to create four chapters. The first is a focus on the narrator's mother, and her journey …
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Making Sense of Pre-Symbolic Trauma: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of Adults Who Were Born Extremely Prematurely
… foreclosed birth narratives determined by family trauma responses. Gradual identification with parents over the course of the interviews appeared to signal one of several entry points for increased fantasy activity around a preterm self-representation. Results suggested that a simple …
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The Journey Back: Revisiting Childhood Trauma
… the adult's endeavor to revisit childhood trauma in four sets of literary texts that are not typically studied together. These works, all published after 1968, address the central problem of revisiting childhood trauma in order to open a potential for mourning and sometimes for healing. I …
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Chasing Peace: A Memoir
… work of literary non-fiction. At root, it is a trauma memoir, exploring both long-standing family trauma and its intersection with the narrator’s singular experience of having been abducted and sexually assaulted as a teenager. The work’s five-part structure braids together a superficially …
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Now Watch This
… the network of his memories for his formative trauma and discovers a critical source in a small Mexican pueblo in the 1970s. It's one man's attempt to cleanse himself and forgive all who've wronged him by confessing to the things that shame him. It's an examination of shame and its …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
… as a means of projection for visualising past trauma and operates as a form of displacement for a confessional practice. The thesis that emerges from my research is that by allowing oneself to respond emotionally and selectively to an existing text through transformative processes of …
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Virginiana
… within the context of grief, history, and trauma. These poems exist at the intersection of physical pain and emotional pain. Among other topics, the poems examine the experience of living with three chronic health conditions. The speaker sees her physical pain and personal grief reflected …