This essay aims to analyze the genre of the trauma memoir as a useful tool of self-representation. This work focuses on the fact that the boom in memoirs in the 1980s and the 1990s was generated due to a reorganization of the genre with trauma as a central trope. Trauma memoirs appearing during this time period were developed in two conflicting forms-the trauma memoir accentuating inability to speak and effectively represent one’s narrative, and the one encouraging the therapeutic power of trauma. The main interest of this essay lies in the latter category, and the arguments examine how these memoir discovered the possibilities that the narrative of trauma held and realized the creative form of self-representation. The core focus of the discussion and analysis is Audre Lorde``s unique memoir, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. This text has uniquely categorized as a biomythography and has been critically evaluated as a work that re-appropriates trauma.