Mediating Memory

Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph

• IntroductionBunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue JosephSection One: CraftChapter1. Memory’s fracture: Instability in the contemporary memoir Marie O’RourkeChapter2. Teaching memoir in neoliberal times Megan BrownChapter 3. The ghost in the memoir machine: Exploring the relationship between ghost-written memoir and biographyMatthew RicketsonChapter 4. Re-presenting madness in the form of a quadrilogueSimon Clarke Section Two: BoundariesChapter 5. The other-directed memoir: Victim impact statements and the aesthetics of changeFiona GilesChapter 6. After he shot Arthur Calwell: Peter Kocan’s use of the second person Tony DavisChapter 7. Memoir for your ears: the podcast lifeSiobhan McHughChapter 8. The "I" and the "Eye": Mediated perspective in the documemoirKathleen WaitesSection Three: SitesChapter 9. Eco-Memoir: Protecting, Restoring and Repairing Memory and Environment Jessica WhiteChapter 10. "Stories": Social media and ephemeral narratives as memoirKylie Cardell, Kate Douglas and Emma MaguireChapter 11. Memoir 2.0: the writing of the self as brandGeorgiana TomaChapter 12. Travel Memoir and Australia: From Twain to Tracks and the Present DayBen StubbsSection Four: BloodlinesChapter 13. Holding the memories: death, success and the ethics of memoir Bunty AviesonChapter 14. First-person narratives and feminism: tracing the maternal DNAKath KennyChapter 15. To begin to know: resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical workSue Joseph and Carolyn RickettChapter 16. The epistolary thread as collaborative writing in grief memoirFreya LatonaSection Five: RecuperationChapter 17. Happy, funny and humane: South African childhood narratives which challenge the "single story" of apartheidAnthea GarmanChapter 18. Redressing the silence: Racism, trauma and Aboriginal women’s life writingWilla McDonaldChapter 19. Lest we forget: mateship, masculinity, and Australian identityJack BowersChapter 20. Bridges across broken time: Armenian "minor-memoirs" of the turn of the 21st centuryGülbin KıranoğluNotes on Contributors Index