MEMOIR

Kissing Frogs in a Fallen World is a creative nonfiction memoir of my life growing up Southern Baptist. It is a themed memoir in that it is not the traditional biographical memoir, nor is it written in a linear time frame. It mixes the present with the past and ponders habituall…

Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora addresses Muslim women's life writing in transit since 9/11. This project follows the memoir boom fueled by many Middle Eastern women writers publishing in the U.S., Australia and Europe. By studying co…

In 1972, the twenty-three-year-old narrator and her physician husband, married barely seven months, move to Malaysia to do research at the national leprosy control center. Sponsored by an American foundation, they will work at a British research facility. The day they arrive, th…

This research uses trauma theory, memoir theory, narratology, and recent scientific research into the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to explore developments in the memoir coming from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specificall…

Trauma Studies is predicated on the idea of unspeakability: events that are experienced as deep psychic wounds break the frameworks for understanding, resulting in an inability to translate the experience into language. Scholars who study the literature of trauma are thus faced …

This dissertation seeks to redefine post-Holocaust survivor testimony through both literary and archival sources. The project explores a variety of genres and linguistic traditions including: Modern Hebrew poetry, French memoir writing, and video-testimony. The writers or speake…

The purpose of this thesis is to examine Diana Abu-Jaber's memoir, The Language of Baklava, and its approach to the question of identity. To this end the thesis utilizes close reading of passages to explore the relationship between language and identity in the memoir. The thesis…

A Hebrew play on words, an insult in Yiddish, and American indifference to suffering populate two notable German language Holocaust memoirs. Weiter leben: eine Jugend by Ruth Klüger and Ich trug den gelben Stern by Inge Deutschkron are prime examples of the complexities and bene…

This piece is a memoir detailing my experience as an ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious minority in my husband's biological home, Nouakchott, Mauritania. The main story takes place over a three week period during which my family and I travel to Nouakchott to visit. My narra…

Le printemps 1962 marque un tournant pour les Français d'Algérie—les Pieds-Noirs—qui doivent faire face, au terme de sept ans de guerre, à une situation tragique. Démunis de leurs biens, ils sont forcés à s'expatrier en France sans espoir de retour. Arrivés sur l'autre rive, ils…

This work of creative nonfiction is meant to explore the effects of combat-related. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in American war veterans and their families. As a work of blended literary journalism and memoir, the author interviewed afflicted veterans from World War II to the …

This memoir deals my experience as a combat medical corpsman serving in Vietnam from March, nineteen sixty-seven to February, nineteen sixty-eight, and my subsequent involvement in anti-war activities and the culture of the nineteen sixties. The memoir is intended to capture not…