Narrative Mourning

Narrative Mourning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Narrative Mourning book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning

Author : Sam Durrant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791485750

Get Book

Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning by Sam Durrant Pdf

Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era. The works examined bear witness to the colonization of the New World, U.S. slavery, and South African apartheid, histories founded on a violent denial of the humanity of the other that had traumatic consequences for both perpetrators and victims. Working at the borders of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and drawing inspiration from recent work on the Holocaust, Durrant rethinks Freud's opposition between mourning and melancholia at the level of the collective and rearticulates the postcolonial project as an inconsolable labor of remembrance.

Narrative Mourning

Author : Kathleen M. Oliver
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684481934

Get Book

Narrative Mourning by Kathleen M. Oliver Pdf

Narrative Mourning explores death and its relics as they appear within the confines of the eighteenth-century British novel. It argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body and the introduction of consciousness as humanity’s newfound soul found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person). In the six novels examined in this monograph—Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison; Sarah Fielding's David Simple and Volume the Last; Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling; and Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho—the appearance of the relic/relict signals narrative mourning and expresses (often obliquely) changing cultural attitudes toward the dead. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning

Author : Korina Giaxoglou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1138286028

Get Book

A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning by Korina Giaxoglou Pdf

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning. Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as small stories of the moment, which are organized around transgressive moments and events with motivational, participatory, or connective scope. Through the different case studies discussed, this book presents an empirical framework for analyzing small stories of dying, death and mourning as practices of sharing which become associated with specific modes of affective positioning, i.e. modulations of different degrees of distance or proximity to the death event and the dead, the networked audience(s), and the affective self. The book calls for the study of affect as integral to narrative activity and opens up broader questions about how stories and emotion are mobilized in digital cultures for accruing audiences, value (social or economic), and visibility. It will be of interest to researchers in narrative analysis, the anthropology and sociology of emotion, digital communication, media and cultural studies, and (digital) death and dying.

Mourning Happiness

Author : Vivasvan Soni
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0801448174

Get Book

Mourning Happiness by Vivasvan Soni Pdf

"A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"--Adam Potkay

A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning

Author : Korina Giaxoglou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351976749

Get Book

A Narrative Approach to Social Media Mourning by Korina Giaxoglou Pdf

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning. Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as small stories of the moment, which are organized around transgressive moments and events with motivational, participatory, or connective scope. Through the different case studies discussed, this book presents an empirical framework for analyzing small stories of dying, death and mourning as practices of sharing which become associated with specific modes of affective positioning, i.e. modulations of different degrees of distance or proximity to the death event and the dead, the networked audience(s), and the affective self. The book calls for the study of affect as integral to narrative activity and opens up broader questions about how stories and emotion are mobilized in digital cultures for accruing audiences, value (social or economic), and visibility. It will be of interest to researchers in narrative analysis, the anthropology and sociology of emotion, digital communication, media and cultural studies, and (digital) death and dying.

Narrative Mourning

Author : Kathleen M. Oliver
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684481910

Get Book

Narrative Mourning by Kathleen M. Oliver Pdf

Narrative Mourning argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body in eighteenth-century Britain found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person) within certain British novels. These relics/relicts exist as material signs of loss and as compensation for loss; they exist as surrogates for the absent (living, dead, or dying) and as reliquaries for their "psychic" essences.

Signifying Loss

Author : Nouri Gana
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611480351

Get Book

Signifying Loss by Nouri Gana Pdf

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying. First, by examining the dynamics between narrative tropes and mourning, it elaborates a poetics of narrative mourning in which prosopopoeia becomes the master trope of mourning while catachresis the master trope of melancholia and chiasmus of trauma. Second, it develops a situated and flexible theory of mourning, capable of adjusting to diverse contexts in which the ethical and political stakes of mourning are different-in short, Signifying Loss calls for the formulation of geopolitical and differential tactics of mourning and mournability rather that for a clear cut strategy of inconsolability.

October Mourning

Author : Leslea Newman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536215779

Get Book

October Mourning by Leslea Newman Pdf

A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesléa Newman, discussing her book Heather Has Two Mommies. Shaken, the author addressed the large audience that gathered, but she remained haunted by Matthew’s murder. October Mourning, a novel in verse, is her deeply felt response to the events of that tragic day. Using her poetic imagination, the author creates fictitious monologues from various points of view, including the fence Matthew was tied to, the stars that watched over him, the deer that kept him company, and Matthew himself. More than a decade later, this stunning cycle of sixty-eight poems serves as an illumination for readers too young to remember, and as a powerful, enduring tribute to Matthew Shepard’s life. Back matter includes an epilogue, an afterword, explanations of poetic forms, and resources.

The Long Goodbye

Author : Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101486559

Get Book

The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke Pdf

"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

The Narrative of the Good Death

Author : Ms Mary Riso
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472446961

Get Book

The Narrative of the Good Death by Ms Mary Riso Pdf

A good death was as central to Methodism as conversion and holiness. Based on an analysis of 1,200 obituaries, this book contributes to an understanding not only of death but of the history of Methodist and evangelical Nonconformist piety, theology, social background and literary expression in mid-nineteenth-century England, and focuses on the tension in Nonconformist allegiance to both worldly and spiritual matters.

Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story--Mourning Clouds

Author : Akira Higashiyama,Takashi Yano,Shin Towada,Jun Esaka,Mirei Miyamoto
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781974718566

Get Book

Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story--Mourning Clouds by Akira Higashiyama,Takashi Yano,Shin Towada,Jun Esaka,Mirei Miyamoto Pdf

A rupture in the alliance at the Summit of the Five Kages could be the trigger for the Fifth Great Ninja War! Meanwhile, something is causing Shikamaru and his family to drift further and further apart. But Shikamaru has a very powerful card up his sleeve to bring peace to both the world and his family! -- VIZ Media

Notes on Grief

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039001565

Get Book

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah, a profound reckoning with loss, written in the wake of her father’s death. During the brutal summer of 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father, a celebrated professor at the University of Nigeria and an irreplaceable figure in a close-knit family, succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Notes on Grief is Adichie’s tribute to him, and a moving meditation on loss. Here Adichie offers a candid snapshot of the shock, loneliness, and disillusionment that followed the news of her father’s death. Her family, unable to be together except for on video calls, struggles to go through the rites of mourning amid a global crisis of unimaginable scale. As Adichie wrestles with his passing, she recalls with vivid, poignant detail who her father was: a remarkable survivor of the Biafran war, a man of kindness and charm, and a fierce supporter of his youngest daughter. Here is a uniquely personal, profound work of remembrance and hope by one of today’s luminaries—a book to bring us together in a time when we need it most.

Humanizing Grief in Higher Education

Author : Nicole Sieben,Stephanie Anne Shelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000371642

Get Book

Humanizing Grief in Higher Education by Nicole Sieben,Stephanie Anne Shelton Pdf

By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship. Featuring a broad range of contributions from scholars and professionals involved in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education explores the varied ways in which students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma. Set into four distinct parts, chapters deploy personal narratives situated within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socio-economic class, and politics intersect with experiences of personal and professional grief in the academy. A variety of intersectional fields of study – from positive psychology, counselling, feminist and queer theories, to trauma theory and disability studies – inform an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and finding ways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as key to developing a sense of hope amongst the grieving and those supporting them. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those interested in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counselling in adults, will also enjoy this volume. Finally, this collection serves as a companion for those who find themselves grappling with losses, broadly defined.

Bereavement Narratives

Author : Christine Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134049035

Get Book

Bereavement Narratives by Christine Valentine Pdf

Bereavement is often treated as a psychological condition of the individual with both healthy and pathological forms. However, this empirically-grounded study argues that this is not always the best or only way to help the bereaved. In a radical departure, it emphasises normality and social and cultural diversity in grieving. Exploring the significance of the dying person’s final moments for those who are left behind, this book sheds new light on the variety of ways in which bereaved people maintain their relationship with dead loved ones and how the dead retain a significant social presence in the lives of the living. It draws practical conclusions for professionals in relation to the complex and social nature of grief and the value placed on the right to grieve in one’s own way – supporting and encouraging the bereaved person to articulate their own experience and find their own methods of coping. Based on new empirical research, Bereavement Narratives is an innovative and invaluable read for all students and researchers of death, dying and bereavement.

Narratives of Hope and Grief in Higher Education

Author : Stephanie Anne Shelton,Nicole Sieben
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030425562

Get Book

Narratives of Hope and Grief in Higher Education by Stephanie Anne Shelton,Nicole Sieben Pdf

This collection weaves together the personal narratives of a group of diverse scholars in academia in order to reflect on the ways that grief and hope matter for those situated within higher education. Each chapter explores a unique aspect of grief and loss, from experiencing a personal tragedy such as the loss of a loved one, to national and international grief such as campus shootings and refugee camp experiences, to experiencing racism and microaggressions as a woman of color in academia, to the implications of religious differences severing personal ties as an individual navigates research and academic studies. Unlike most resources examining grief, this collection pushes beyond notions of sorrow as solely individual, and instead situates moments of loss and hurt as ones that matter politically, academically, professionally, and personally. The editors and their authors offer pathways forward to academics, researchers, teachers, pedagogues, and thinkers who grapple with grief in a variety of forms, transforming this book into a critical resource of hope to those in the field of education (and others) who may feel the effects of an otherwise solitary journey of grief, to create an awareness of solidarity and support that some may not realize exists within academic circles.