Narrating Midlife
Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
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Product details:
- Publisher Lexington Books
- Date of Publication 30 April 2019
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781498584104
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 228x161x23 mm
- Weight 531 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation explores how managing and living through change at midlife is ultimately a communicative endeavor. Using autoethnography, contributors narrate midlife experiences as diverse as the empty nest syndrome, sexual fluidity, mixed-retirement marriage, spousal abduction of a child, and cancer.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Echoes of Your Presence
Chapter 2: And Then There Were Two
Chapter 3: Solid as Cracked Granite: Living Alone at Mid-Life
Chapter 4: The Goal at the End of the American Dream: Talking about Work, Retirement, and Marriage
Chapter 5: Requium for My Fond Memories of My Son: An Autoethnographic Journey of My Empty Midlife as a Bicultural Diaspora
Chapter 6: Reframing Motherhood: The Therapeutic Value of Narrative
Chapter 7 Beginning Again: Diagnosis as Breach, Survival as a New Normal
Chapter 8 Ripping Off the Bandaid: Cancer at Midlife
Chapter 9 Failure at Forty: A Genealogy of an Unanticipated Midlife
Chapter 10 Sexuality as Spirituality: A Phenomenology of Synchronicity
Chapter 11 Reflections on a Mid-life Crisis: My Chang(ed)(ing) Life After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 12 The Midlife Experience: Thirty Years in the Making
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