Writing Widowhood

Writing Widowhood
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781438458212
ISBN-13 : 1438458215
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Book Synopsis Writing Widowhood by : Jeffrey Berman

Download or read book Writing Widowhood written by Jeffrey Berman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers—Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates—each of whom has written a memoir of spousal loss. In each chapter, Berman gives an overview of the writer's life and art before widowhood, including her early preoccupation with death, and then discusses the writer's memoir and her life as a widow. He discovers that writing was, for all of these authors, both a solace and a lifeline, enabling them to maintain bonds with their lost loved ones while simultaneously moving on with their lives. These memoirs of widowhood, Berman maintains, reveal not only courage and resilience in the face of loss, but also the critical role of writing and reading in bereavement and recovery.


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