The Law of Historical Memory
| dc.contributor.author | Lecuona, Adriana | |
| dc.contributor.program | MFA in Creative Nonfiction | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-10T18:24:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-10T18:24:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-01 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 148 p. | en_US |
| dc.genre | manuscripts | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M24V75 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/3766 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Goucher College, Baltimore, MD | |
| dc.rights | This work is restricted until 2032. No access will be permitted until the embargo has expired. Once the embargo expires the work is available only on Goucher College's campus. | |
| dc.subject | Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hodgkins Lymphoma | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cancer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Suicide | en_US |
| dc.subject | Family Dysfunction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Repressed Memories | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sexual Assault | en_US |
| dc.subject | Journals | en_US |
| dc.subject | Healing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cuban-Americans | en_US |
| dc.subject | Immigrant families | en_US |
| dc.subject | Memoir | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Creative nonfiction -- Theses. | |
| dc.title | The Law of Historical Memory | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |