Narrating Midlife

Crisis, Transition, and Transformation

AvLori West Peterson,Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to construct their own meaning after reading each narrative, they are encouraged to attend to the ways in which each narrative reveals how the author grapples with their particular issues communicatively. More important, readers are invited to see the power of narrative re-framing as authors seek to understand, interpret and “live” midlife change(s) in ways that are empowering and life affirming. In this book, contributors spin compelling and meaningful narratives about change at midlife. The empty nest, the surprise discovery of cancer, re-defining one's life at midlife and re-imagining long term commitment after divorce are just some of the topics explored in this book. Auto-ethnographically crafted, the narratives presented throughout the book aim to show how managing and living through change at midlife is very much a communicative endeavor.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-30
Mått:162 x 228 x 24 mm
Vikt:531 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498584104

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Lori West Peterson is associate professor of communication at St. Edward’s University.Christine Elizabeth Kiesingeris lead facilitator and curriculum developer for Leadership Wilkes-Barre.

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Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is a welcome and vital addition to the literature on interpersonal, family, health, and organizational communication. The contributors of the stories in the collection navigate their way through the confusion, challenges, and competing demands they experience as they move through midlife. This is a soulful collection of deeply personal, evocative, and vulnerable autoethnographic stories that will make readers more mindful of the necessity and difficulties of dealing effectively with the expected and the unforeseen.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Echoes of Your PresenceChapter 2: And Then There Were TwoChapter 3: Solid as Cracked Granite: Living Alone at Mid-LifeChapter 4: The Goal at the End of the American Dream: Talking about Work, Retirement, and MarriageChapter 5: Requium for My Fond Memories of My Son: An Autoethnographic Journey of My Empty Midlife as a Bicultural DiasporaChapter 6: Reframing Motherhood: The Therapeutic Value of NarrativeChapter 7 Beginning Again: Diagnosis as Breach, Survival as a New NormalChapter 8 Ripping Off the Bandaid: Cancer at MidlifeChapter 9 Failure at Forty: A Genealogy of an Unanticipated MidlifeChapter 10 Sexuality as Spirituality: A Phenomenology of SynchronicityChapter 11 Reflections on a Mid-life Crisis: My Chang(ed)(ing) Life After Severe Traumatic Brain InjuryChapter 12 The Midlife Experience: Thirty Years in the Making