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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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-956442024-08-05T06:05:36Z Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman: Shero and an exegesis Mary, Julia 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. 2024 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95644 Curtin University restricted |
| spellingShingle | Mary, Julia Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman: Shero and an exegesis |
| title | Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman:
Shero and an exegesis |
| title_full | Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman:
Shero and an exegesis |
| title_fullStr | Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman:
Shero and an exegesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman:
Shero and an exegesis |
| title_short | Autobiographical Acts of a Trauma-affected Woman:
Shero and an exegesis |
| title_sort | autobiographical acts of a trauma-affected woman:
shero and an exegesis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95644 |