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- Title
Resisting Attrition in Stories of Trauma.
- Authors
Clark, Mary Marshall
- Abstract
From my perspective as an oral historian who is interested in narratives of trauma, Rita Charon's essay on memory prompts the reminder that it is something that sets out to capture something else that is already lost. As I think about the project of telling in the profession of medicine, which seeks to repair that which may be already broken, it occurs to me: oral history does have a place at this grand table if in even a very humble way. I am reminded of the paper a wonderful intellectual, Parita Mukta, recently presented at the meeting of the International Oral History Association in Rome entitled 'The Attrition of Memories: Ethics, Moralities and Futures.' Attrition she defined as that process of friction or gradual wearing out that leads to a loss of feeling sorry for sin or contrition that is required for ethical life. The question she asked in her paper was why, with the rise of the spectacular media coverage of violence against ethnic groups in her own home country of India, and terrorism across the globe, is there an attrition of real understanding, communication, and sorrow over that which has been lost.
- Subjects
MEMORY; REPENTANCE; EMOTIONAL trauma; NARRATIVE therapy; THERAPEUTICS; LITERATURE &; medicine
- Publication
Narrative, 2005, Vol 13, Issue 3, p294
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nar.2005.0018