Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir on Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family

Author(s)

Hannah DunnFollow

Abstract

I was deeply affected by the death of my beloved nana in 2018. After her death, my family asked me to be the storyteller for us. Thus, for my Honors Project at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), I decided to write a personal memoir on my family. This memoir explores how we fit into notions of womanhood and family in Appalachia, as well as studying the effects of intergenerational trauma on us. Qualitative research, in the form of the autoethnography, serves as the methodology for this project. In writing a creative memoir, I have transformed my personal to the academic.

Department

English

Major

English

First Advisor

Professor Julie Haught

First Advisor Department

Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Second Advisor

Dr. Lawrence Coates

Second Advisor Department

Creative Writing

Publication Date

Fall 12-13-2021

Repository Citation

Dunn, Hannah, "Hannah & Nana: A Personal Memoir on Appalachian Intergenerational Trauma, Womanhood, & Family" (2021). Honors Projects. 635.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/635