memoir

On the other hand, trauma in childhood can change how memories are formed and retained and grief can alter our sense of time and identity. Furthermore, retelling these events can be re-traumatising. Trauma memoirists generally have to function within the scattering nature of trauma in order to construct their own versions of truth. The pretty notion of trust in a story of trauma is, as a result, fraught even prior to an audience for the function exists. However memoirists strive for trust and truth readers not only anticipate but demand these items. Phillipe Lejeune has named this the “autobiographical pact”....