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A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography (Hardcover)
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A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography
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Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies
focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and
breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of
recovering from crisis and restructuring reality-a healing act that
involves the writer in a "wrestle with words and meanings" that can
be deeply regenerative. Narration can be a way of purging guilt and
pain, re-centering the self, and reconnecting with community after
a shattering experience has driven one into silence and isolation.
This book considers the problems, such as finding words for the
inexplicable, the narrative perspective chosen and the traditional
forms or narrative structures as means of re-patterning
consciousness. It looks at seven autobiographies as crisis
narratives and demonstrates how therapy and art merge in
autobiography so that the literature acts back upon life. Works
considered: Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth; Elie Wiesel's
Night; Christa Wolf's Kinheitsmuster (A Model Childhood); C. S.
Lewis' A Grief Observed; Peter Handke's Wunschloses Unglueck (A
Sorrow Beyond Dreams); Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born; Robert
Prisig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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