The education of a gambler's daughter
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[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Education of a Gambler's Daughter is a creative dissertation that tells the story of a daughter trying to make sense out of the chaos that resulted from her family's relationship to gambling. In the process of this sense-making, I explore how my adolescent world was a negotiation between her self-actualization and her understanding of risk. In the critical introduction, 'Writing Someone Else's Story or Imagining Narrative in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior," I examine the way in which Kingston retells the family secret of her aunt's demise by applying ethnographer Amy Shuman's theory about the relationship between entitlement and privacy to understanding the balance between truth and compassion in retelling someone else's story. Together, the critical introduction and the memoir call into question the responsibilities the memoirist bears in retelling her own story when that story is dependent upon other people's stories and the family secrets embedded in them.
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