Anxious Reading: Interrogating Selective Empathy in Trauma Memoirs
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2021Metadata
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10.1080/08989575.2021.1966991Abstract
This essay considers a researcher’s anxiety at submitting a trauma memoir to critical scrutiny. By studying the uneven distribution of grievability in a white expatriate’s memoir of Zimbabwe, it explores how this anxiety can open up for a reading strategy that is sensitive to the political power of selective empathy.