The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, Editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provid

IntroductionBunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue JosephSection One: CraftChapter1. Memory’s fracture: Instability in the contemporary memoir Marie O’RourkeChapter2. Teaching memoir in neoliberal times Megan BrownChapter 3. The ghost in the memoir machine: Exploring the relationship between ghost-written memoir and biographyMatthew RicketsonChapter 4. Re-presenting madness in the form of a quadrilogueSimon Clarke Section Two: BoundariesChapter 5. The other-directed memoir: Victim impact statements and the aesthetics of changeFiona GilesChapter 6. After he shot Arthur Calwell: Peter Kocan’s use of the second person Tony DavisChapter 7. Memoir for your ears: the podcast lifeSiobhan McHughChapter 8. The "I" and the "Eye": Mediated perspective in the documemoirKathleen WaitesSection Three: SitesChapter 9. Eco-Memoir: Protecting, Restoring and Repairing Memory and Environment Jessica WhiteChapter 10. "Stories": Social media and ephemeral narratives as memoirKylie Cardell, Kate Douglas and Emma MaguireChapter 11. Memoir 2.0: the writing of the self as brandGeorgiana TomaChapter 12. Travel Memoir and Australia: From Twain to Tracks and the Present DayBen StubbsSection Four: BloodlinesChapter 13. Holding the memories: death, success and the ethics of memoir Bunty AviesonChapter 14. First-person narratives and feminism: tracing the maternal DNAKath KennyChapter 15. To begin to know: resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical workSue Joseph and Carolyn RickettChapter 16. The epistolary thread as collaborative writing in grief memoirFreya LatonaSection Five: RecuperationChapter 17. Happy, funny and humane: South African childhood narratives which challenge the "single story" of apartheidAnthea GarmanChapter 18. Redressing the silence: Racism, trauma and Aboriginal women’s life writingWilla McDonaldChapter 19. Lest we forget: mateship, masculinity, and Australian identityJack BowersChapter 20. Bridges across broken time: Armenian "minor-memoirs" of the turn of the 21st centuryGülbin KıranoğluNotes on Contributors Index