Beschreibung:
The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, UK, and the USA. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives.
Introduction: Thresholds of the Private 1. Family Memoir and Self-Discovery 2. Voices in Movement: Feminist Family Stories in Oral History and Sound Art 3. The Epistolary Dynamics of Sisterhood Across the Iron Curtain 4. The Odyssey Quilts: Narrative Artworks of Childhood, War and Migration 5. Is Autobiographical Writing a Historical Document?: The Impact of Self-Censorship on Life Narratives 6. Material Memory and the Digital 7. Because it's Your Country: Death and its Meanings in West Arnhem Land 8. 'from Organic Arts': Tsamorita, Rosaries, and the Poem of My Grandma's Life