Narrative coherence is considered as paramount within various dominant discourses, and is
seen as empowering traumatised individuals by giving them more control over their lives …

THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW agenda for feminist thinkers and activists. Too simply put,
Gender Trouble introduced a series of conceptual tools for the critical analysis of the politics …

Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new
insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic …

Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new
insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic …

THE fiRST qUESTION I derive from the seven insightful commentaries on my paper
concerns the extent to which my experience of inadvertently perpetuating trauma through …

Life-writing constitutes an important space of interrogation of a range of questions about the
possibilities and limits of mediating traumatic experience that, via complex engagements …

This article explores how three modalities of writing dissertation, memoir, and
autoethnography negotiate the tensions between poststructuralist and psychoanalytic …

As trauma theory narrated shattering endings, it turns, in a new century, to imagine
impossible beginnings. How do we figure life? The task of carnal hermeneutics, as …

How do we speak usefully about unspeakable things? This paper draws on my doctoral
research with survivors of spousal abuse and subsequent book to address the …

How can literature trigger us to take a critical attitude towards our own position in watching
the other suffer? This essay explores the issue of what could constitute an› ethical‹ response …