Object's details: The Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women

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Title:
The Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women
Creator:
Małecka, Katarzyna
Description:
Most Western cultures place a great value on autonomy. American society in particular has always stressed the need to succeed via self-reliance, a characteristic which, in recent decades, has additionally manifested itself in an increasing inclination for self-examination reflected in the deluge of autobiographical writing, especially memoirs. This analysis focuses on memoirs of spousal loss, a specific subgenre of life writing in which, due to the loss of a loved one, the narrating self realizes how unstable a sense of autonomy is. In their bereavement narratives, Joan Didion, Anne Roiphe, and Joyce Carol Oates admit that after losing a life partner their world crumbled and so did their sense of self. The article examines the following aspects of the grieving self: 1. how grief tests one’s self-sufficiency; 2. how various grief reactions contribute to self-disintegration; 3. the widow as a new and undesirable identity; and 4. writing as a way of regaining one’s sense of self.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2015 Katarzyna Małecka
Date:
2016.01.12
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Peer-reviewed articles
Language:
English
Source:
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 50 No. 2-3 (2015); 155-174;
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 50 Nr 2-3 (2015); 155-174;
2082-5102;
0081-6272
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2015-0030/28863
Subject:
self;
loss;
widow;
bereavement;
memoir;
independence;
grief;
writing;
narrative;
self-pity
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2015-0030
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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