Beschreibung:
What do Dexter King, Condoleeza Rice, Mackenzie King, Corazon Aquino, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Cosby, Tony Dungy, Theodore Roosevelt, George H. W. and Barbara Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Arthur Ashe, Lady Bird Johnson, Colin Powell and C. S. Lewis have in common? They all have significant grief experiences that have shaped their lives in dramatic ways, stories that have also shaped our lives.
Introduction: Borrowing Stories: First Person Singular. Part I: Borrowing as a Process. Why Borrow Narratives? Mining Borrowed Narratives. Constructing a Grief Grid. Chaining Borrowed Narratives by Topic or Commonality. Diversifying Borrowed Narratives. Extracting Borrowable Narratives From Contemporary Memoirs. Using Borrowed Narratives. Borrowing Narratives for the Loss of Animal Companions. Part II: Sample Borrowed Narratives. A Griever Named Woodrow. A Griever Named Jackie. A Griever Named Cleve. Grievers Named King. Part III: Beginning the Borrowing. Conclusion. Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Memoirs.