Searching for Benny’s Grave is the memoir of a highly accomplished middle-aged woman who still yearns for the love of her ninety-year-old father—a former Nazi prisoner of war and veteran of three wars. The woman and her father are survivors. The narrator feels that her father re…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 dissertation argues that Victorian subjects’ increased idealization of childhood as a distinct phase of life marked by freedom, helplessness, innocence, and unproductiveness relied upon the figure of the dead child. Working through literary texts, in conjunction with cultur…
There is a rich body of scholarship on Black women’s fiction and poetry that analyzes its engagements with aesthetic forms as well as the themes of memory and history. Likewise, Black women’s memoir and autobiography have been read for their illustrations of Black feminist polit…
It starts with my mother. Her stories. A single seed. A seed I sucked in my mouth in order to remember the flavor of an orange. As a child, I listened to my mother's stories and later, as an adult, I began writing these stories down. Big Road is a memoir blending family history …
This qualitative self-study explores the relationship between the personal and professional dimensions of a teacher's life that shape identity and praxis. The question driving the research is: How have my life experiences (personal and professional) contributed, or not, to my id…
Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the most controversial behavioral disorders in America, and I have it. Diagnosed at a young age with Asperger’s Syndrome, a now defunct diagnosis, I have been marked as different, weird, a freak. In this thesis I will reflect on the autistic ex…
Eudora Welty’s memoir One Writer’s Beginnings conveys the author’s childhood enchantment with reading and education. Critical engagement with the text often centers its impact on readings of her fiction or Welty’s relationship to other memoirists. I argue, however, that One Writ…