Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman: Shero and an exegesis
Within the field of Life Writing, it has been suggested that hybrid, fragmented and/or non-linear texts may act as protective structures for troubled stories to enter the world. This research project explores this claim through textual analysis and creative practice. Autobiographical Acts of a Traum...
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Curtin University
2024
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95644 |
| Summary: | Within the field of Life Writing, it has been suggested that hybrid, fragmented and/or non-linear texts may act as protective structures for troubled stories to enter the world. This research project explores this claim through textual analysis and creative practice. Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman: Shero and an exegesis argues that hybrid autobiographical acts support women to safely create stories of gendered violence and act as a metaphor for the embodied nature of trauma, dissociation, and traumatic memory. |
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