Weathered Girl: An Exploration of Scribing The Indescribable And Healing Through First Person Childhood Trauma Narratives
Abstract
This project examines autobiographical writing and the ways in which some authors
use memoir as a vehicle to convey and communicate childhood trauma. Mary Anna King’s
Bastards, Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I Know For Sure and Wendy Lawless’
Chanel Bonfire are the texts I use to explore how writers, through the particular
alchemy of truth and literature, transform heartrending stories into something meaningful
for the rest of us.
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(2016). Weathered Girl: An Exploration of Scribing The Indescribable And Healing Through First
Person Childhood Trauma Narratives. Master's thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11970.Collections
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