Opis

• Tytuł:
  The Self Lost, the Self Adjusted: Forming a New Identity in Bereavement Memoirs by American Women
• Twórca:
  Małecka, Katarzyna
• Opis:
  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.
• Dostępność obiektu:
  Dostęp otwarty
• Prawa:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2015 Katarzyna Małecka
• Data:
  2016.01.12
• Typ:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Język:
  angielski
• Źródło:
  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
• Wydawca:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relacja: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2015-0030/28863
• Temat i słowa kluczowe:
  self;
  loss;
  widow;
  bereavement;
  memoir;
  independence;
  grief;
  writing;
  narrative;
  self-pity
• Identyfikator: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2015-0030
• Dostawca danych:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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