Remembering Through Relational Experience: Family Construction of Memory in Sexual Assault

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2014-12

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Moeller, Lauren Shay

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In this thesis, I inquire into the stories and memories of my family and myself, all of whom have experienced sexual assault and remained silent about our experiences. I seek to recognize how our memories and stories are created, shaped, and molded by/with family. This work pursues the importance of sexual assault memory so that we can begin to look more critically at how this memory is (re)presented in/to society and how this representation is formulating the recollection and suppression of specific memories. This thesis examines familial memory of sexual assault to further the societal understanding of sexual assault narrative. In addition, I inquire into my own experiences of memory and seek for this work to move from a specific context to a much larger theoretical perspective.

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Autoethnography, Sexual Assault, Relational, Memory

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