Mediating Memory

Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph

Introduction

Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph

Section One: Craft

Chapter1. Memory’s fracture: Instability in the contemporary memoir

Marie O’Rourke

Chapter2. Teaching memoir in neoliberal times

Megan Brown

Chapter 3. The ghost in the memoir machine: Exploring the relationship between ghost-written memoir and biography

Matthew Ricketson

Chapter 4. Re-presenting madness in the form of a quadrilogue

Simon Clarke

Section Two: Boundaries

Chapter 5. The other-directed memoir: Victim impact statements and the aesthetics of change

Fiona Giles

Chapter 6. After he shot Arthur Calwell: Peter Kocan’s use of the second person

Tony Davis

Chapter 7. Memoir for your ears: the podcast life

Siobhan McHugh

Chapter 8. The "I" and the "Eye": Mediated perspective in the documemoir

Kathleen Waites

Section Three: Sites

Chapter 9. Eco-Memoir: Protecting, Restoring and Repairing Memory and Environment Jessica White

Chapter 10. "Stories": Social media and ephemeral narratives as memoir

Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas and Emma Maguire

Chapter 11. Memoir 2.0: the writing of the self as brand

Georgiana Toma

Chapter 12. Travel Memoir and Australia: From Twain to Tracks and the Present Day

Ben Stubbs

Section Four: Bloodlines

Chapter 13. Holding the memories: death, success and the ethics of memoir

Bunty Avieson

Chapter 14. First-person narratives and feminism: tracing the maternal DNA

Kath Kenny

Chapter 15. To begin to know: resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical work

Sue Joseph and Carolyn Rickett

Chapter 16. The epistolary thread as collaborative writing in grief memoir

Freya Latona

Section Five: Recuperation

Chapter 17. Happy, funny and humane: South African childhood narratives which challenge the "single story" of apartheid

Anthea Garman

Chapter 18. Redressing the silence: Racism, trauma and Aboriginal women’s life writing

Willa McDonald

Chapter 19. Lest we forget: mateship, masculinity, and Australian identity

Jack Bowers

Chapter 20. Bridges across broken time: Armenian "minor-memoirs" of the turn of the 21st century

Gülbin Kıranoğlu

Notes on Contributors

Index