Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48291-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3256 g

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prodromou, A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Life Writing and the Literature of Grief 2. Trout Tickling For Truth in Narratives of Loss 3. 'Writing the Self into Being': Narrative Identity in Memoirs of Loss 4. 'No Bones Broken': Embodied Experiences of Loss Conclusion: 'Weeping Constellations' References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy-Katerini Prodromou is a Lecturer in the Language Centre at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. She is the Reviews Editor for Life Writing journal, and runs the Women's Life Writing Network (WLWN). Her previous publications include articles in a range of journals.