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Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation by Lori West Peterson
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- Book Title
- Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
- Publication Date
- 2019-04-30
- ISBN
- 9781498584104
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
1498584101
ISBN-13
9781498584104
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038633843
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
238 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Narrating Midlife : Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
Subject
Gerontology, Communication Studies, Life Stages / Mid-Life, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-009409
Dewey Edition
23
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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., "This being human is a guest house," wrote the Sufi poet Rumi. My guest house has been open 48 years. Thus the stories of Narrating Midlife came to me in--or, more likely, past--my own midlife. Opening the door, I recognized some of these guests: career crossroads, bodily deterioration, relational turmoil, penetrating loss. Other guests foretold of futures, possible and certain: aging, retirement, cancer, disability, death. How much more wholeheartedly human might we become if we open ourselves to greeting each story as Rumi instructs: like an honorable visitor, "a guide from beyond"?, Lori West Peterson and Christine Kiesinger have edited a collection of deeply personal narratives, inviting readers to join the authors as they open windows to an array of experiences of midlife. Of particular benefit to those wishing to find nuance in distinctions, is the organization of the book by those stories of lives "on track," and others, "off the rails," allowing readers and students of aging and life stages to reflect on the subtle ways we measure our lives while both celebrating and struggling with the circumstances we face., "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." --Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida "Lori West Peterson and Christine Kiesinger have edited a collection of deeply personal narratives, inviting readers to join the authors as they open windows to an array of experiences of midlife. Of particular benefit to those wishing to find nuance in distinctions, is the organization of the book by those stories of lives "on track," and others, "off the rails," allowing readers and students of aging and life stages to reflect on the subtle ways we measure our lives while both celebrating and struggling with the circumstances we face." --Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University ""This being human is a guest house," wrote the Sufi poet Rumi. My guest house has been open 48 years. Thus the stories of Narrating Midlife came to me in--or, more likely, past--my own midlife. Opening the door, I recognized some of these guests: career crossroads, bodily deterioration, relational turmoil, penetrating loss. Other guests foretold of futures, possible and certain: aging, retirement, cancer, disability, death. How much more wholeheartedly human might we become if we open ourselves to greeting each story as Rumi instructs: like an honorable visitor, "a guide from beyond"?" --Lisa M. Tillmann, Rollins College
Dewey Decimal
305.244
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
HQ1059.4.N37 2019
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