Through interweaving her student’s troubling confessional self-disclosure revealed in a course assignment with a disturbing account taken from her own adolescent experience, the author considers the pedagogical challenges as well as the personal and political consequences of silence and of witnessing and the irrevocability and interpretive indeterminacy of such self-disclosure.
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