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Who do i remember for?:Memory as genre and dark pleasures of trauma witnessing
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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
General Psychology
General Social Sciences
General Psychology
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27902
Abstract
There is a lot written on trauma-witnessing and childhood memories, very often in tandem. I am entering this discussion by engaging with two questions that have not been addressed extensively within the field of memory/trauma studies: (1) In which ways and from what places are memories being structured even before they come to be 'our' memories? In other words, can we talk of memory as a genre?; and (2) What kinds of dark pleasures are derived from trauma-witnessing - both from the side of the witness-teller and from the side of the listener? Finally: How are these two questions connected, and what does their intersection tell us about the possibilities and limits of memorywriting? This chapter is very personal; for, in it, I try to grapple with my own uneasiness when faced with these questions in the context of a memory-writing workshop. It is also a chapter that tries to contextualise its conclusions within the wider frame of memory-writing processes of different kinds.
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Book chapter
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2024-04-22
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9781805111863
9781805111870
9781805111870
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10.11647/OBP.0383.01