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Inscribing Ordinary Trauma In The Diary Of A Military Child, Jennifer Sinor
Inscribing Ordinary Trauma In The Diary Of A Military Child, Jennifer Sinor
English Faculty Publications
Using her own diary as a case study, the author examines how the life writing of a military child inscribes ordinary trauma, defining ordinary trauma as a response to extraordinary events masked as ordinary. For the military child, the possibility of war is made ordinary and rendered such in her writing.