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Melina Magdalena Melina Magdalena i(A58236 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Reclaiming Anthology : Healing Our Wounds Melina Magdalena (editor), Henley Beach : Seaview Press , 2005 Z1226181 2005 anthology essay poetry prose short story autobiography The impact of trauma is often perceived as a shattering of identity. In healing, survivors seek to reclaim and reconnect with parts of themselves that they feel have been lost or taken away. The anthology offers an inspiring collection of writings from a culturally diverse mix of urban and rural Australians. The writers represented have opened themselves to expressing their experiences of trauma and healing, in a way that contradicts society's expectations that 'victims' are permanently damaged people. They show themselves to be authentic human beings on the hard road to healing - these writers are gutsy, courageous, contemplative, perceptive, creative, loving, spiritual and angry. (Seaview Press website)
1 Those Thin Places Melina Magdalena , 1999 single work short story
— Appears in: Shortz Magazine 1999;
1 Stuck Melina Magdalena , 1999 single work poetry
— Appears in: Moving Out, Moving On : Poems of Dis-Location 1999; (p. 16-17)
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