Life-writing and incremental healing: word by word, year by year

Joseph, SA

Life-writing and incremental healing: word by word, year by year

Joseph, SA

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Publisher:: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss, 2019
Issue Date:: 2019-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Joseph, SA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-6633	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Avieson, B	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Giles, F	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Joseph, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss, 2019	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780367193188	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133797
dc.description.abstract	This paper tracks the trajectory of a life writing project through tertiary education to publication, and beyond. From a rocky pedagogical beginning, with clinical ramifications, student and academic discuss their individual experiences of the process, and trace the lessons learnt, from each perspective. The memoir was written and published under a pseudonym at the time. The former candidate discusses that decision and why she would make a different one today. As such, she continues the incremental ownership of her life writing story of the systematic abuse when she was a child, growing up in Melbourne, at the hands of an extended family member. The paper looks at the writing as therapy literature as a means to demonstrate that it may not have immediate affect on life writers, but incremental. The former candidate’s memoir, when first published, became a top seller of a large Australian bookstore chain for many weeks.	en_US
dc.publisher	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss	en_US
dc.title	Life-writing and incremental healing: word by word, year by year	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	New York	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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pubs.place-of-publication	New York	en_US
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This paper tracks the trajectory of a life writing project through tertiary education to publication, and beyond. From a rocky pedagogical beginning, with clinical ramifications, student and academic discuss their individual experiences of the process, and trace the lessons learnt, from each perspective. The memoir was written and published under a pseudonym at the time. The former candidate discusses that decision and why she would make a different one today. As such, she continues the incremental ownership of her life writing story of the systematic abuse when she was a child, growing up in Melbourne, at the hands of an extended family member. The paper looks at the writing as therapy literature as a means to demonstrate that it may not have immediate affect on life writers, but incremental. The former candidate’s memoir, when first published, became a top seller of a large Australian bookstore chain for many weeks.

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