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    The Law of Historical Memory

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    Author/Creator
    Lecuona, Adriana
    Date
    2017-01
    Type of Work
    148 p.
    Text
    manuscripts
    Program
    MFA in Creative Nonfiction
    Rights
    This work is restricted for 10 years from the date listed above. No access will be permitted until the embargo has expired. Once the embargo expires the work is available only on Goucher College's campus.
    Subjects
    Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
    Hodgkins Lymphoma
    Cancer
    Suicide
    Family Dysfunction
    Repressed Memories
    Sexual Assault
    Journals
    Healing
    Cuban-Americans
    Immigrant families
    Memoir
    Creative nonfiction -- Theses.
    Abstract
    Experimenting with various shifts of narrative address, The Law of Historical Memory is a memoir in four parts that examines the fragmentation of my selfhood and my family relationships. I reflect upon the past through the lens of my post-cancer period of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as, during that period, the new, healthier relationship I had developed with my body incurred a greater sense of its communicative abilities. I discovered that my body held memories I could not see but feared greatly—so much so that I feared dying more after cancer. When I discovered that my adolescent journals revealed repressed experiences, every false conception I had of myself and of my family was shattered. Ultimately, by uncovering the truth, I healed as an integrated self. This thesis represents excerpts from Part 3: The Kitchen Sink and Part 4: The Pact of Forgetting.


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    Goucher College
    1021 Dulaney Valley Road
    Baltimore, MD 21204

    www.goucher.edu

    Contact Information:
    kristen.welzenbach@goucher.edu
    library.goucher.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.