I'm honestly not shocked that this whole #MyDarkVanessa "drama" resulted in the author having to put out a statement admitting to her own history of trauma. I've been saying from the beginning that #ownvoices is a vital & admirable goal for publishing HOWEVER
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... policing of experiences becomes inevitable, with victims of the same sort of trauma calling into question the response to trauma in the narrative. As though responses to trauma were uniform across not just cultures and contexts but individuals as well.
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You can't, you simply CAN'T, go around saying, 'oh she's full of shit. That's not how abuse victims react.' There's a whole body of academic work that talks about how cultural products (films, tv, etc) have produced an icon of the "trauma victim" and how we've become so...
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... saturated with that vision it becomes difficult to conceive of any other manifestation or response to trauma (Luckhurst's The Trauma Question is one of my faves on this.)
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It's important to delineate between fiction and life-writing. These two ARE NOT the same thing. A writer may or may not draw on personal experience in writing a novel but we should never get into a position of demanding they prove such things.
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Fiction is not the place to go in search of objective truths and verifiable facts. / end rant (again)
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