Exploring the history and range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, displacement, and other experiences of trauma, this book includes studies of intergenerational trauma; the therapeutic potential of trauma memoir; its ethical challenges; and trauma memoir giving voice to minority experiences.

Dr. Bunty Avieson is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Fiona Giles is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Sue Joseph is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney.

Part I Marginalities 1. Rewriting the Ontological Self-Following the Loss of the Communication Senses 2. Memoir and Mental Disability: A Call to Action 3. A Memoir on Writing Memoir: Navigating the Past to Find Voice in the Present Part II Histories 4. Writing Trauma: The Other Into the Story of The Self 5. Modelling The Good Death in Memoir 6. Trauma's Interior History: Walt Whitman's Civil War and Sequelae Part III Practices 7. Listening With Feeling: Emotional Labour and Digital Storytelling in Dementia Care Education 8. Survivor to Survivor Story-Telling After Hurricane Katrina 9. Life-Writing and Incremental Healing: Word By Word, Year By Year Part IV Ethics 10. Investigating Ethics in the Young Widow Memoir 11. Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres: Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy 12. Spit Us Out Whole: Voicing the Double Wound in Carol Dine's Places in the Bone: A Memoir Part V Exile 13. 'Still Mauled but Constructive New Lives': Trauma Memoirs in 20th Century American Prison Writing 14. Becoming Refugee: Poetics and Politics of Representation and Displacement in Refugees' poetry 15. A Call to Action: Behrouz Boochani Manus Island Prison Narratives