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Lessons on Aging and Dying - A Poetic Autoethnography (Hardcover)
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Lessons on Aging and Dying - A Poetic Autoethnography (Hardcover)
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
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Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography captures the
experience of being elderly and facing the end of life. The book
presents a collection of poems about life's end accompanied with
narrative commentary. Organized as 73 lessons, they can be read as
personal curiosities, momentary realizations, farcical departures,
embarrassing fears, therapeutic encounters, experiential truths,
hopeful conjectures, and inevitable destinations. This book is a
poetic inquiry that calls upon the lyrical in narrative and poetic
forms to enter its subject. It also is an autoethnography that
examines culture through the deployment of the self. Framed by
introductory and concluding remarks, the book is organized around
three developmental stages. The initial pages, "Beginnings,"
recognize the author's birth into the end, a time when he knew he
had arrived at a place beyond middle age. The middle unit, "From
Here to There," displays an unsettled settling in, driven by an
ongoing tension between resistance and acquiescence. It serves as a
transitional stage into "Endings," the final section that
anticipates death's imminent arrival and speculates about how
author might meet his end. Together, these units provide
opportunities for identification, speculation, and resistance.
Published as part of the prestigious autoethnographic series
Writing Lives: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Narratives, and
written by one of the foremost academics in the fields of
communication and performance studies, this text is particularly
suitable for students and researchers in subjects such as
relational and family communication, gerontology and end-of-life
care, and performance studies.
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