Suturing a Wounded Body—Wounded Mind in Red Silk on White Linen: Embodied and Hand(Y) Knowledge of Trauma

In 1830, Elizabeth Parker, daughter of a day laborer and of a teacher in Ashburnham, East Sussex, England, cross-stitched in red silk thread an extraordinarily complex text that participates in several genres, including a memoir of her then brief life of some seventeen years, a confession, a suicide...

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Main Author: Maureen Daly Goggin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2012-05-01
Series:Linguaculture
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Online Access:https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/23