Threasa Meads Threasa Meads i(A118097 works by)
Gender: Female
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Threasa Meads writes in a range of genres and has been published in street press, anthologies, and online journals. Her first memoir, Nobody, is the story of her traumatic childhood written in the style of a 'Choose Your Own Adventure'. It was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel literary award in 2008 and awarded a Text/Varuna Publisher Fellowship in 2009. Meads has lived in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide and has worked towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University.

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y separately published work icon Nobody : A Liminal Autobiography 2008 Los Angeles : Rare Bird Books , 2016 Z1529274 2008 single work single work autobiography

'Nobody is a highly stylized memoir that employs the choose-your-own-adventure structure to illustrate the complexity of navigating trauma for both author and reader. Nobody invites you to closely share a young girl’s brave journey of growing up in Australia in the eighties in a violent and abusive world. It transgresses the boundaries of literary traumatic representation to weave moments of sweetness and humor through a narrative where unexpected threads of beauty and darkness intersect, emphasizing the horrors of her environment. In conflating the labyrinth and maze, Nobody offers glimpses of the threads and juxtapositions that emerge when struggling to cope with traumatic memory.

'Nobody’s second-person narration and choose-your-own-adventure form work seamlessly together with word and image to powerfully convey the intimate exchange that the author had with her fragmented selves while writing, and reveals the claustrophobia and confusion of PTSD.

'Nobody challenges readers to cross the threshold: it forces them to examine their position as voyeuristic consumers of trauma and asks them to recognize their essential role as participant-witnesses. Through facilitating readers’ uncomfortable engagement with the text, Nobody challenges them to see the threads of complicity connecting individuals and communities to the ongoing issues of domestic violence and child sexual abuse.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2008 shortlisted The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript)
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