The self lost, the self adjusted: Forming a new identity in bereavement memoirs by American women
| dc.contributor.author | Małecka, Katarzyna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-30T08:00:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-30T08:00:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 50.2-3 (2015), pp. 155-174 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0081-6272 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19242 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Adam Mickiewicz University | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | self | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | loss | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | widow | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | bereavement | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | memoir | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | independence | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | grief | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | writing | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | narrative | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | self-pity | pl_PL |
| dc.title | The self lost, the self adjusted: Forming a new identity in bereavement memoirs by American women | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |
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