Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published 30 Apr 2019
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 238
ISBN 9781498584111
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging