Abstract
This work analyzes recent public debates, in particular in North America, that centered on the authenticity of two popular texts: Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: memories of a childhood 1939-1948 and Rigoberta Menchú's I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala . The author argues that these debates tell 'us'‐academics, activists, and educational researchers‐how 'audiences' read and make sense of disclosures of the experience of trauma and how cultural memory 'frames' these disclosures. This article examines these debates and particularly focuses on the impact of unreliable narrators on audiences, the meaning(s) of 'survivor' in a trauma-saturated culture, and potential implications of this discussion for qualitative researchers.
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