| Abstrakt: |
This article explores partial healing through writing or what Suzette A. Henke calls 'scriptotherapy.' In the context of Holocaust, exile and displacement, I focus on five WW2 female memoirs written by former Shanghai Jewish exiles who belong to what Susan Rubin Suleiman called '1,5 generation:' Ursula Bacon, Betty Grebenschikoff, Hannelore Heinemann Headley, Anna Lincoln, and Evelyn Pike Rubin. After presenting the historical context in which approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees fled from Europe to Shanghai between 1933 and 1941, I investigate the process of trauma recovery in these memoirs via Judith Herman's tripartite model presented in Trauma and Recovery. Each section focuses on the way in which the memoirists established safety, reconstructed their trauma stories, and regained a sense of community. The Epilogue delves into my own subjectivity and the way I perceived these migrants' stories as a healing witness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
