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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, the UK, and the USA.
The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge and stories from generation to generation frequently requires crossing into the private, contested spaces of memory. The most secret accounts or guarded remnants of information can sometimes lead to the most profound insights. In this context, there is a delicate balance between life writing's role in revealing lives and the desire to be respectful towards them. As the essays in this book attest, exposing secrets, even if humiliating, can be a way of honouring lives. Throughout runs the framing theme of memory as the source of all intergenerational transmission of culture and history—whether relating to family, community, nation, ancestry, or political allegiance—and the importance of the intimate and personal in that process of handing on.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Contents
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 Is Autobiographical Writing a Historical Document?: The Impact of Self-Censorship on Life Narratives 6.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
