Borrowed Narratives: Using Biographical and Historical Grief Narratives with the Bereaving

ISBN-13: 9780415893947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 299 str.

Harold Ivan Smith

Opis

Using Biographical and Historical Grief Narratives With the Bereaving. What do Dexter King, Condoleeza Rice, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, Corazon Aquino, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Tony Dungy, Theodore Roosevelt, George H. W. and Barbara Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Arthur Ashe, Lady Bird Johnson, Colin Powell, C. S. Lewis have in common? They all have significant grief experiences that have shaped their lives in dramatic ways, stories that have also shaped our lives.

Spis treści

Introduction: Borrowing Stories: First Person Singular. Part I: Borrowing as a Process. Why Borrow Narratives? Mining Borrowed Narratives. Constructing a Grief Grid. Chaining Borrowed Narratives by Topic or Commonality. Diversifying Borrowed Narratives. Extracting Borrowable Narratives From Contemporary Memoirs. Using Borrowed Narratives. Borrowing Narratives for the Loss of Animal Companions. Part II: Sample Borrowed Narratives. A Griever Named Woodrow. A Griever Named Jackie. A Griever Named Cleve. Grievers Named King. Part III: Beginning the Borrowing. Conclusion. Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Memoirs.

O autorze

Harold Ivan Smith, DMin, FT, is a speaker, writer, and consultant with Harold Ivan Smith and Associates in Kansas City, Missouri. He is on the teaching faculty of the American Academy of Bereavement/CMI and runs seminars and workshops at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Death Education Counseling. His area of research is the grief of US presidents and first ladies.