Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir [Hardcover]

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss.Introduction 1. Life Writing and the Literature of Grief 2. Trout Tickling For Truth in Narratives of Loss 3. 'Writing the Self into Being': Narrative Identity in Memoirs of Loss 4. 'No Bones Broken': Embodied Experiences of Loss Conclusion: 'Weeping Constellations' References Index

Amy-Katerini Prodromou is a Lecturer in the Language Centre at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. She is the Reviews Editor for Life Writing journal, and runs the Women's Life Writing Network (WLWN). Her previous publications include articles in a range of journals.

Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir is a fascinating study of a distinctive new sub-genre of the grief memoir. Offering subtle and persuasive readings of canonical and non-canonical books, Amy Katerini-Prodromou affirms the ambiguities of recovery following loss. Her scholarly study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the culture of mourning. - Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany, CUNY, USA