Journal articles: 'Objects in grief narratives'

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FIELD, NIGEL P., SHEILA E. STURGEON, RICHARD PURYEAR, STEVEN HIBBARD, and MARDI J. HOROWITZ. "Object relations as a predictor of adjustment in conjugal bereavement." Development and Psychopathology 13, no. 2 (May 16, 2001): 399–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579401002115.

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The impact of object relations on adjustment in conjugal bereavement was examined. At approximately 6 months postbereavement, 46 midlife bereaved participants engaged in a narrative interview in which they were asked to discuss their past relationship with their deceased spouse. The Westen et al. object relations scoring system was applied to these narratives. Participants also completed depression and grief-specific symptom measures at 6 months and again at 14 and 25 months postbereavement. Object relations correlated differently with grief-specific symptoms and depression; it was more strongly negatively associated with 6 month postloss grief-specific symptoms while more strongly negatively correlated with depression at 25 month postloss. In a growth curve analysis, more mature object relations was also predictive of a faster rate of decrease in depression over time. The results were discussed in terms of current theoretical perspectives on what is required in successful adaptation to conjugal bereavement.

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Bencekovic, Sara. "Loves me, loves me not." Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology 1, no. 1 (May 29, 2019): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-6739.36.

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The Balkan region is known for its historical climate of turbulent social relations; thus, public spaces that consecrate shared experiences of grief and loss come as no surprise. One such space, however, has experienced astonishing growth in its fame and popularity, not just as a renowned cultural landmark, but as a significant Croatian cultural export. The Museum of Broken Relationships is filled with unremarkable everyday objects donated by lovers who associate them with their past relationships. The value of these objects is not necessarily utilitarian, or aesthetic, but symbolic: they represent the emotions of remorse and pain elicited by breakups. This paper is an account of the objects, stories, and narratives found in the Museum of Broken Relationships. It considers the Museum a lens through which people can scrutinize the meaning of love in their everyday lives and consequently re-shape their identities. It looks into the Museum’s transformative potency as a spiritual and sacred space that offers hope in times of despair, fosters disorientation and chaos, and offers visitors an opportunity to confirm or reject their previous perspectives on love.

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Caputo, Andrea. "Illness and Object Relations: Narratives From Women With Pulmonary Hypertension." Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology 26, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 130–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/ijpcp.26.1.3124.1.

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Objectives The current research study aims at investigating the illness experience of people affected by Pulmonary Hypertension (PH), as a particularly challenging rare disease that is paradigmatic for the understanding of regulatory processes. Methods The study used Giorgi’s method to analyze the illness narratives of 11 adult Italian women affected by PH according to a qualitative phenomenological approach. An object relations perspective looking at chronic illness as an internal object was adopted for result interpretation. Results Four general themes were identified that characterize illness narratives of people with PH and illustrate the progressive stages of the disease. They respectively deal with the body/mind disruption at symptom onset, the protagonization of illness in the search for a diagnosis, the complicated grief at the time of diagnosis, and the anaclitic strategies to face the future. Conclusion Findings make a significant contribution to the exploration of the subjective experience of people with PH in managing illness-related challenges from symptom onset to after diagnosis.

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Norwood, Tamarin, and John Boulton. "Reconciling the Uniquely Embodied Grief of Perinatal Death: A Narrative Approach." Religions 12, no. 11 (November 8, 2021): 976. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12110976.

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The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is a moral affront to the cycle of life, leaving parents without the life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort to the bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sense of their loss. For the grieving mother, it is also a physical affront, as her body continues to rehearse its part in its symbiotic relationship with a baby whose own body is disintegrating. Attempting to forge continuing bonds with her child after death makes special demands upon the notion of embodied spirituality, as she attempts to make sense of this tragedy in an embodied way. This paper, which reconciles the distinct perspectives of bereaved mothers and children’s doctors, proposes that the thoughtful re-presentation of medical insight into pregnancy and fetal development may assuage parents’ grief by adding precious detail to their baby’s life course, and by offering the mother a material basis to conceptualize her own body as part of the distributed personhood of her baby.

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Ravalli, Luiza. "Cradles of Life." Contingent Horizons: The York University Student Journal of Anthropology 6, no. 1 (June 29, 2022): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-6739.110.

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Medical technologies have intervened on the critical post-natal time and space by augmenting and/or optimizing conditions intended to increase survival. As contested, contextual, and transformative spaces, incubators fulfill particular biological needs while also becoming sites where political realities, human emotion, ritual and symbolism converge upon vulnerability. I explore sociopolitical contexts of vulnerability and protection in global and cross-cultural context, while drawing on prior scholarship in anthropology of motherhood, material culture, as well as feminist and reproductive anthropology. Events in popular culture like the Danish Octo Project and Purple Butterfly Initiative provide insight into lived experience and everyday interactions with incubators and the neonatal intensive care environment. In response to popular assumptions of technological advancements in clinical medicine as apolitical apexes of innovation, we must complicate their technical utility with profoundly human experiences toward and around them. In doing so, we situate and implicate technology in political and discursive narratives and reflect on these objects as more than sums of their parts. This essay contributes to broader discussions about the materiality of medical technologies and their environments, and illuminates new possibilities to examine corollaries of grief, hope, maternalism, memory, and the resilience of human psyches and physiologies.

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Immonen, Visa, and Elina Räsänen. "From passion to bereavement." Journal of the History of Collections 32, no. 2 (May 27, 2019): 379–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhz018.

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Abstract The Finnish diplomat Harri Holma and his wife Alli, along with their son, art historian Klaus, created a private collection of 554 items. They acquired antique pieces and works of art in Berlin, Paris and Rome from the 1920s to the 1950s. The collection consists of Western and Southern European paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles and tableware, dating from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Initially the objects were acquired by the Holmas to decorate diplomatic residences, but eventually they came to form a deliberately assembled collection. Following Klaus’s death, Harri and Alli Holma donated the collection to the Lahti City Museum in the 1950s and the 1960s. Here the creation of the collection is first traced then followed on its journey to Finland, with a focus on the developing relationship between objects, family history and museum institution. The shifts in the collection’s narrative from hobby to an expression of grief, and finally to a formal museum assemblage and a subject of academic research generate epistemological tensions.

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Chakraborty, Sovan. "The Abject Female." Archiv orientální 85, no. 1 (May 18, 2017): 19–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.85.1.19-45.

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Bengali bratakathās are folk ritual tales and rhymes that women listen to and/or narrate at the time of the accomplishment of their ritual vows known as bratas (Sanskrit vratas), made for the fulfillment of worldly wishes and wants. The bratas (ritual vows) and their kathās (tales), together with chāṛās (rhymes), create a space where women apparently dominate by becoming the performers, the narrators, the transmitters, the authorities of knowledge, the agencies of socio-familial wellbeing and the protectors of moral and ideological institutions. As these tales and rhymes portray, the “female force” crucially plays the central role in determining and retaining the power structures of society which otherwise would not be sustained for long. While very often an alternative female presence is found in these bratakathās, a complex patriarchal mechanism of relentless suppression, subjugation and marginalization of the same cuts through the narrative structures. At times, it is detected and explicitly voiced against – with grief, pain, anger and bantering criticism. At other times, it is only hinted at in the spirit of pleasing submission, interpolated by the ideological (and not entirely hegemonic) structures. Very often it becomes mystically inscrutable as they appear to be honest and apparently naturalizing forces in an attempt to dilute all inner complicacies and possibilities in the con/textuality of these narratives. The femaleness in these ritual stories and rhymes continuously keeps on swinging between the subject and the object positions, blurring all such dyadic constructions (male/female, centre/margin, and so on) situating itself, as Julia Kristeva terms it, in an existentially interstitial condition/space of “abjection.”

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Davis, Brian. "Instrumentalizing the book: Anne Carson’s Nox and books as archives." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 84–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2021-0005.

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Abstract This article introduces an experimental mode of contemporary writing and bookmaking that I call multimodal book-archives, an emergent mode of contemporary literature that constructs narratives and textual sequences through the collection and representation of reproduced texts and other artifacts. In multimodal book-archives the book-object is presented as a container designed to preserve and transmit textual artifacts. In this article, I examine Anne Carson’s Nox (2010) as a case study in archival poetics, exemplifying the “archival turn” in contemporary literature. My analysis draws attention to how writing, subjectivity, knowledge, history, and memory in the digital age are increasingly configured through distributed networks of people and artifacts in different social and institutional spaces, demonstrating how Nox functions not only as an instrument of psychological rejuvenation, but as an aesthetic instrument for documenting, ordering, listing, and juxtaposing disparate bits of information and memory into cathartic self-knowledge. Carson’s archival poetics is deeply personal, laden with private symbols and metaphors that readers are asked to collocate, cross-reference, and translate as part of the archival reading process. If grief is a kind of chaos, then Carson’s archival poetics instrumentalizes the book as a tool for ordering that chaos into something manageable, useful, even beautiful.

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Labov, William. "Narratives of Uncontrollable Grief." Narrative 28, no. 2 (2020): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2020.0011.

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Sedney, Mary Anne. "Children's Grief Narratives in Popular Films." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 39, no. 4 (December 1999): 315–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/un7p-9rxy-j9h5-bhn6.

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Children's grief narratives, conceptualized as portrayals of the grief process in children, in popular films are examined. Four films focus this study: Snow White, Bambi, The Land Before Time, and The Lion King. These films reflect a range of acknowledgment of death and descriptions of grief in their young characters. They also vary in the extent to which they are consistent with traditional models of grief that emphasize detachment and contemporary models that focus on the importance of ongoing connections with the deceased. These films are consistent in their portrayal of the availability and usefulness of support and comfort for grieving children. They are also uniform in their presentation of possibilities for hope and some forward development after loss. Use of popular films for children's death education and for grief education is discussed.

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Goldstein, Richard D., Carter R. Petty, Sue E. Morris, Melanie Human, Hein Odendaal, Amy J. Elliott, Deborah Tobacco, Jyoti Angal, Lucy Brink, and Holly G. Prigerson. "Transitional objects of grief." Comprehensive Psychiatry 98 (April 2020): 152161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2020.152161.

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BERZOFF, JOAN. "Narratives of grief and their potential for transformation." Palliative and Supportive Care 4, no. 2 (June 2006): 121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951506060172.

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This article examines narratives of grief and loss and how, under the best of circumstances, they may lead to transformation and growth, even contributing to the greater social good. Using psychodynamic and narrative theories, and examples drawn from mourners who have used their grief in powerful and political ways, I make the case that even grief that has been highly appropriated and contested, as in the case of Terri Schiavo, may ultimately serve important functions. Grief may mobilize mourners by helping them to turn passivity into activity. Grief may mobilize higher-level defenses such as altruism. Grief and loss may lead to a mourner's desire to do for others what was not done for him or her. A necessary part of turning grief into social action is the creation of a coherent grief narrative—first personal and then political. This coherent narrative can be developed using clinical interventions as well. Hence I discuss the clinical implications of helping those who are grieving to create coherent narratives out of shattered assumptions in a process of personal and social change.

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Das, Enny, and Judith Peters. "“They Never Really Leave Us”: Transcendent Narratives About Loss Resonate With the Experience of Severe Grief." Human Communication Research 48, no. 2 (February 11, 2022): 320–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqac001.

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Abstract Self-transcendent media experiences can instill a sense of connectedness, the sense of being part of a bigger whole. Proposing that this experience is relevant for people who have lost a loved one, the present research examined processing and effects of transcendent narratives of loss among the bereaved. Study 1 (N = 1,012) examined if personal experience with loss (grief severity, loss acceptance) increased mixed affect, transportation, identification, and appreciation of narratives of loss with, and without a reference to transcendence; Study 2 (N = 240) examined effects on elevation and connectedness. Findings showed that transcendent narratives of loss increased transportation, identification, and story appreciation especially for individuals with severe grief. Conversely, transcendent narratives of loss increased elevation, and connectedness especially for individuals with low grief. Findings suggest that transcendent narratives of loss resonate with severe personal grief. We found no evidence that a transcendent perspective on death reflects difficulty in accepting one’s personal loss.

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Sampe, Naomi. "Rekonstruksi Paradigma Ekonomis dalam Budaya Rambu Solo’ di Toraja Utara." BIA': Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristen Kontekstual 3, no. 1 (June 27, 2020): 26–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34307/b.v3i1.158.

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Cultural paradigm reconstruction in Economic practical of Rambu Solo’ in North Torajan Regency. The economic cultural transformation in the Torajan funeral ceremony is a kind of reconstruction of how to give or make charity to the grieving family, from pig, buffalo, or any other object and transform into money or capital. These changes are interested to be studied, especially on the impact that inflicted by this cultural reconstruction. This research is using the qualitative approach which runs in descriptive methods. Finally, all data will be exposed to real narratives and qualitative analytic. The results of this research are: 1.the economic cultural reconstruction in the funeral ceremony in North Toraja is leaving some pig or buffalo to resell, the value of the pig or buffalo is exchange into the money. 2.the impact of this economic reconstruction is that the grief burden especially in the economic aspect was lighter and easier. Either the people who come to bring their help (pig, buffalo), shall be more practical and simpler. AbstrakRekonstruksi Paradigma Budaya Ekonomis dalam Rambu Solo’ di Toraja Utara. Transformasi budaya ekonomis dalam upacara pemakaman orang Toraja merupakan suatu bentuk pergeseran jenis pemberian/bantuan pada keluarga yang sedang berduka, dari bentuk babi dan kerbau atau materi (benda) menjadi pemberian dalam bentuk uang atau modal. Hal ini menarik untuk diteliti guna mengetahui sejauhmana dampak ekonomis yang ditimbulkan oleh pergeseran budaya ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: Pertama, perubahan ekonomis dalam upacara rambu solo’ di kabupaten Toraja Utara yaitu menyisakan sebagian babi dan kerbau untuk dijual kembali, menggantikan harga babi dan kerbau dengan nominal uang, mengganti pemberian barang dengan uang (amplop). Kedua, dampak perubahan kultur ekonomi dan upacara pemakaman orang Toraja adalah beban ekonomi orang yang melaksanakan upacara rambu solo’ menjadi lebih ringan. Demikian pula dengan keluarga yang datang membawa babi dan barang dapat memakai cara yang lebih praktis, mudah dan murah. Kata kunci:

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Walter, Tony. "Grief narratives: The role of medicine in the policing of grief." Anthropology & Medicine 7, no. 1 (April 2000): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/136484700109377.

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Jiménez-Alonso, Belén, and Ignacio Brescó De Luna. "Narratives of Loss: Exploring Grief through Photography." Qualitative Studies 6, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 91–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/qs.v6i1.124433.

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Grief is not an exclusively private and intrapsychic phenomenon but a dynamic process whereby the bereaved negotiates the meaning of the loss in a way that may challenge his/her personal self-narrative. Drawing on a social constructionist model of grief, this paper features a case study where we analyse narratives of mourning elicited through a personal photographic project. The visual-based narrative methodology used in our study (photo-production) not only allows for multi-modal forms of expression and communication in the study of grief, but it also serves as an aid for individuals to scaffold further meaning-making processes which cannot be conveyed through narrative alone. The paper concludes with an invitation to reflect on the use of photography as both a possible methodological tool to explore narratives of grief and a therapeutic tool for the construction of meanings and continuing bonds with the deceased.

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Jordan, Erin Colleen. "Huzuni na Hadithi: Grief and Stories in Southern Tanzania." NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology 23, no. 1 (July 4, 2015): 56–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.15173/nexus.v23i1.987.

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For two months in the summer of 2010, I lived in Peramiho Village with a Tanzanian family and conducted ethnographic fieldwork on grief rituals and support systems for my undergraduate thesis. When I returned to Peramiho from September 2011 to November 2012, my further observations of the mourning process more clearly foregrounded narratives. This article focuses on grief narratives in Tanzania as stories that connect people to each other and to the land. Short-term narratives in particular act as rites of incorporation: storytellers initiate others into a shared community and show survivors grappling to ground their experiences with death, a form of control over chaos as they repeatedly narrate events. The mourning process that follows, which includes a secondary funeral ritual and year-long restricted practices, transforms grief and memory, and therefore the narratives themselves. Collected stories provide the structure of this essay, marking shifts in my experience and understanding of the grief process in Peramiho.

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Hadfield-Law, Lisa. "Parent grief – narratives of loss and relationship." Accident and Emergency Nursing 9, no. 4 (October 2001): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/aaen.2001.0254.

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Rhodes, Reviewed by Alison H. "Borrowed Narratives: Using Biographical and Historical Grief Narratives with the Bereaving." Journal of Palliative Medicine 18, no. 5 (May 2015): 471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2015.1028.

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Peticca-Harris, Amanda. "Managing compassionately? Managerial narratives about grief and compassion." Human Relations 72, no. 3 (July 10, 2018): 588–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726718779666.

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How do you manage a team following the death of an employee? This article explores this question and inquires if managerial responses to suffering can be compassionate with a decentralized team structure, in the restaurant industry where employees are faced with a high degree of emotional labour. To date, the compassion process has suggested that a focal actor, often a manager, first must notice suffering, then must feel empathic concern, and act in ways to alleviate a sufferer’s pain (Kanov et al., 2004). In this study, against the backdrop of the compassion process with a narrative approach and stories-as-text design, the findings articulate the material conditions that impede, disavow and inhibit the compassion process from the point of view of three restaurant managers acting as focal actors and their (rather unsuccessful) attempts to aid and alleviate the suffering of their grieving team members. By explicating the dynamics of their managerial failure using the link of grief and compassion, this article extends our understanding of grief at work and management in the restaurant industry more broadly.

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Stopel, Bartosz. "Romantic Love and Grief in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”: A Sketch of a Cognitive Narratological Perspective." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 26/1 (September 11, 2017): 87–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.26.1.06.

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The article investigates the structure of romance and grief narrative included in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh,” on the basis of Patrick C. Hogan’s th eory of literary universals and his work on aff ective narratology. Following Hogan, I argue that emotions are deeply embedded in stories and that stories are typically designed so as to manipulate the aff ective responses of their readers. I will focus on the way the story depicts prototypical stages of romance and grief and where it deviates from universal narratives involving concerning grief, separation, attachment, and romantic love, arguing that the aff ective and aesthetic potential of the story lies precisely in where it departs from these prototypical narratives. At the same time, I shall speculate on how discourse organization manipulates the formation of aff ective schemata and empathic alignment in readers.

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Gudmundsdottir, Maria. "Embodied Grief: Bereaved Parents' Narratives of Their Suffering Body." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 59, no. 3 (November 2009): 253–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.59.3.e.

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Experiences and symptoms emanating from the bereaved person's body are commonly considered to be psychosomatic reactions to loss. The lingering of such experiences is thought to reflect a maladaptive coping style that needs to be addressed to access the psychological pain underlying the symptoms. In this interpretive, phenomenological study of 15 family members in seven families who lost a child to sudden, unexpected death, stories of embodied grief are explored to further understand the grieving body. The findings of this study illuminate the many ways parents experience their grieving body and they underscore the importance of witnessing and acknowledging stories of the body in clinical work with bereaved parents who are learning to live in a world without their beloved child.

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Killeen, Mary Ellen. "Book Review: Parent Grief: Narratives of Loss and Relationship." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 18, no. 2 (March 2001): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104990910101800216.

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Sedney, Mary Anne. "Maintaining connections in children's grief narratives in popular film." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 72, no. 2 (2002): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.72.2.279.

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Kearney, Alison, and Annemi Conradie-Chetty. "Untold Stories: Material Narratives of Fragility, Grief, and Healing." de arte 57, no. 3 (September 2, 2022): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2022.2152968.

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Kenning, Gail, and Cathy Treadaway. "Designing for Dementia: Iterative Grief and Transitional Objects." Design Issues 34, no. 1 (January 2018): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00475.

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Designers increasingly are exploring how to support individuals transitioning through loss and grief and coming to terms with a loved one's death. For people living with dementia and their families, the loss and grief they experience is iterative and ongoing. This paper discusses design research to make sensory textile objects for people with advanced dementia, intended to support positive well-being, shared experiences, and “in the moment” pleasure. It draws on theories relating to transitional and transformational objects to show how these textiles support those living with dementia as they transition into greater dependency and move toward the end of life. It shows how, after their death, the objects become memorials and symbolic representations, further supporting family members through their experience of loss.

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Henay, Charlotte, and Yasmin Glinton. "A Botanical of Grief." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 11, no. 3 (December 18, 2019): 31–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29501.

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A Botanical of Grief writes connection to our Ancestors, delving into and relating their reinvented and white-coded experiences and spaces that they occupied. Through a poetic triptych, as protocol for talking to the dead, we reach to the need for irreducible narratives, to be accessed by descendants in defining themselves. We represent what we hear in the spaces between, silences that speak volumes and call for us to take heed. We ask, what is grief in the afterlife of enslavement? We explore deep grief and fear as fruit and seed, realms in which The Bahamas, The Caribbean countries, and their Diasporas remain moored. Our writing makes explicit the tensions inherent in deep grief, denied public mourning, and fear of connection, reverberating throughout diaspora, unresting in the blood and bones of those that went before us. We are represented only in select details of the history of this land. The weighted sorrow of the forgotten seeks to make new worlds. This exploration navigates a perspective outside the colonial presence of idyllic beauty and exoticism.

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Bosticco, Cecilia, and Teresa L. Thompson. "Narratives and Story Telling in Coping with Grief and Bereavement." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 51, no. 1 (August 2005): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/8tnx-leby-5ejy-b0h6.

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My daughter was a normal, healthy young lady, looking forward to becoming a teenager. Then, a strange sensation appeared in the muscle of her upper arm and everything changed! She waged the toughest battle of her life, but died of cancer in the middle of her thirteenth year. How does a mother cope with so tragic a loss? I told and retold the story. I talked about how we faced the chemo, the pain, and the fear together, about the fun we had, about the impact on our family, about the final days on the wish trip, about her death, about her friends, about the support of our faith community. I shared with all who would listen and, gradually, the storytelling helped me to make sense of things, to cope with the gaping hole in my world, to find a new normal for myself, to move on. My daughter stills lives—in eternity, in my memory, in the life I live as a result of having been her mom for those thirteen and a half years, and in the stories—hers, mine, ours.

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Frank, Arthur W. "Writing Oneself Back In: Narratives of Care, Grief, and Loss." Literature and Medicine 35, no. 1 (2017): 229–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2017.0010.

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Storey, Matthew, and Lucy Worsley. "Queen Victoria: An Anatomy in Dress." Costume 53, no. 2 (September 2019): 256–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cost.2019.0123.

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This object-based study of Victoria's surviving wardrobe uses dress as material evidence for the changes that took place to the Queen's physical body. Our exploration of the Queen's attitude towards clothing combined with her physical measurements as recorded in surviving items from her wardrobe allow us to nuance the conventional biographical narrative of a woman who consistently gained weight over her lifetime. We challenge the perception that she immediately became rotund after her husband's death as a consequence of grief and argue that her later-life mourning clothes were a distinctive, comfortable and rational response to her physical body and her status as a widow.

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Walter, Tony, Rachid Hourizi, Wendy Moncur, and Stacey Pitsillides. "Does the Internet Change How We Die and Mourn? Overview and Analysis." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 64, no. 4 (June 2012): 275–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.64.4.a.

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The article outlines the issues that the internet presents to death studies. Part 1 describes a range of online practices that may affect dying, the funeral, grief and memorialization, inheritance and archaeology; it also summarizes the kinds of research that have been done in these fields. Part 2 argues that these new online practices have implications for, and may be illuminated by, key concepts in death studies: the sequestration (or separation from everyday life) of death and dying, disenfranchisement of grief, private grief, social death, illness and grief narratives, continuing bonds with the dead, and the presence of the dead in society. In particular, social network sites can bring dying and grieving out of both the private and public realms and into the everyday life of social networks beyond the immediate family, and provide an audience for once private communications with the dead.

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Kofod, Ester Holte. "Becoming a Bereaved Parent." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 6, no. 4 (2017): 70–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.70.

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In this essay, I explore the significance of involving personal experiences with loss in my research on parental bereavement. By intersecting autoethnography and findings from a qualitative interview study with bereaved parents following infant loss, I argue that while popular and professional accounts depict normal grief as a transitory state, parental accounts present grief as a continuing and open-ended relationship with the dead child. In acknowledgment of this, I present fragmentary, non-reifying narratives of the continuing realities of becoming a bereaved parent.

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McCreight, Bernadette Susan. "A grief ignored: narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective." Sociology of Health and Illness 26, no. 3 (April 2004): 326–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2004.00393.x.

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Maercker, Andreas, George A. Bonanno, Hansjoerg Znoj, and Mardi J. Horowitz. "Prediction of complicated grief by positive and negative themes in narratives." Journal of Clinical Psychology 54, no. 8 (December 1998): 1117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199812)54:8<1117::aid-jclp11>3.0.co;2-5.

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Duncan, Sallyanne. "Sadly missed: The death knock news story as a personal narrative of grief." Journalism 13, no. 5 (January 10, 2012): 589–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911431542.

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This article examines the manner in which journalists write news stories based on the ‘death knock’ interview where they gather reaction from the recently bereaved about their loss. The death knock news story with its emphasis on the first-hand testimony of the bereaved in certain respects can be perceived as a personal narrative of grief. This research studies the types of narratives used to tell these personal stories and applies Labov and Waletzky’s personal narrative model in order to determine what the bereaved tell us about grief and how the journalist interprets it. Statements from the bereaved contained in such stories are examined to identify emergent grief themes across the genre. The research found that, despite the adoption of a more positive mood in the later stages of reporting a family’s grief, the coherent narrative was one of unyielding anguish, emptiness and continuing loss.

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Wojtkowiak, Joanna, Noëmie C. Vanherf, and Carmen M. Schuhmann. "Grief in a biography of losses: Meaning-making in hard drug users’ grief narratives on drug-related death." Death Studies 43, no. 2 (September 25, 2018): 122–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1456708.

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Airaksinen, Timo. "Narratives of (Mad) Desire." ETHICS IN PROGRESS 4, no. 2 (September 1, 2013): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/eip.2013.2.1.

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Satisfied desires make you happy. Desires are fantasy narratives a person tells about her life and goals. They focus on intentional objects that are happiness-makers for the person: to achieve them is supposed to make one happy. Normally, such objects are good things and their context is seen in a positive manner. However, the goals may also be hurtful, as the person herself sees it. These are, at least sometimes, mad desires. To explain them, it is not enough to say that they are impulsive and irrational, unconscious, or that they are good in disguise. I explain what this means and give some examples. I also consider the thesis that satisfaction of desire is less than full happiness, which may well be true. This becomes clear when we think of moral choices.

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Brinkmann, Svend, and Ester Holte Kofod. "Grief as an extended emotion." Culture & Psychology 24, no. 2 (September 25, 2017): 160–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x17723328.

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In recent years, human scientists have generalized the so-called hypothesis of the extended mind to human emotional life. The extended mind hypothesis states that objects within the environment function as a part of the mind and are centrally involved in cognition. Some emotion researchers have argued along these lines that there are bodily extended emotions, and (more controversially) environmentally extended emotions. In this article, we will first briefly introduce the idea of the extended mind and extended emotions before applying it to the emotion of grief specifically. We explain by introducing the notion of a cultural affective niche within which grief is scaffolded and enacted. An affective niche couples the person and the environment and enables the realization of affective states.

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Alam, Hamid, Sakina Riaz, and Sajjad Hussain. "Childless Women: Narratives from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 26, no. 1 (May 30, 2020): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.46521/pjws.026.01.0022.

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This article documents the experiences of childless Pakhtun women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as narrated by them. These narratives present primary data on the most significant issue about which research studies are relatively scarce. This exploratory study drawing upon in-depth interviews of 45 childless women and 20 men in the 3 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through convenient purposive sampling techniques, presents a narrative of the physical and mental health and lifestyle behaviours of childless women and men currently within 25-60 years of age. Research findings indicate that childless women become more anxious about their social and economic security and hopelessness escalates as the end of childbearing approaches. Further, their self-esteem goes low and depression, anxiety, and grief goes up. Stigmatization, conjugal dissonance and stereotypical attitudes of society injure their selfidentity. This empirical study recommends more studies to be undertaken on the plight of childless persons.

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Byrne, Eleanor Alexandra. "Grief in Chronic Illness: A Case Study of CFS/ME." Journal of Consciousness Studies 29, no. 9 (September 21, 2022): 175–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.53765/20512201.29.9.175.

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This paper points to a more expansive conception of grief by arguing that the losses of illness can be genuine objects of grief. I argue for this by illuminating underappreciated structural features of typical grief — that is, grief over a bereavement — which are shared but under-recognized. I offer a common chronic illness, chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), as a striking case study. I then use this analysis to highlight some clinical challenges that arise should this claim receive uptake in clinical practice. Extant literature on CFS/ME tells us that rates of comorbid depression are atypically high. If one accepts that people with CFS/ ME can grieve over losses associated with the condition, and that grief can be easily mistaken for depression in this context, this might suggest that rates of comorbid depression are inflated. I show, however, that the challenge of distinguishing between healthy and pathological grief arises in its place, and is just as tricky to solve.

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Vega Vega, Paula, Paola Carrasco Aldunate, Leticia Rojo Suárez, María Eugenia López Encina, Rina González Rodríguez, and Ximena González Briones. "Transcend the Death of Child with Cancer: Professional Health Experiences." Enfermería: Cuidados Humanizados 10, no. 2 (November 17, 2021): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22235/ech.v10i2.2410.

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Objective: To reveal the perception of grief support of professionals in pediatric oncology units, after the death of the patients. Method: Qualitative phenomenological study. 22 in-depth interviews were conducted with professionals from 5 pediatric oncology units of public hospitals in Santiago. Once the narratives were transcribed, the comprehensive analysis and subsequent triangulation of the data was performed, achieving saturation. Results: Professionals perceive themselves supported in their grief by being able to experience the losses in a protected environment and feeling supported by their surroundings. They recognized the existence of external and internal factors that facilitated the process of grief. However, this support is perceived as insufficient, as there is a lack of formal support from the institution, as well as a protected grief period, or support from mental health professionals to the teams. All death experiences allow professionals to transcend their pain based on lifelong learning and to give meaning to their work. Conclusion: Grief support felt by the professionals is generated from their own initiatives of re-encounter within the teams, which is insufficient. Therefore, training in coping with death is necessary from undergraduate level, which would allow greater cohesiveness in coping and greater self-care within the teams.

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Rood, Craig. "Protection Narratives and the Problem of Gun Suicide." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 25, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 29–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.25.2.0029.

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Abstract Even though gun suicides account for well over half of all U.S. gun deaths each year, they largely are absent from collective attention, policy discussion, and rhetorical study. Using stories about gun suicide from Everytown for Gun Safety's website, “Moments That Survive,” this essay examines how the authors depict gun suicide as a public problem and a gun problem rather than as a private problem limited only to the individual gun user. In so doing, these stories revise three of the gun debate's key terms: collective grief, character, and agency. More than simply drawing attention to gun suicide, these stories critique the dominant narrative of protection (protection from “them”) and urge readers to reimagine suicide, protection, and gun violence.

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Palmer, Victoria. "Narrative Repair: [Re]covery, Vulnerability, Service, and Suffering." Illness, Crisis & Loss 15, no. 4 (October 2007): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/il.15.4.f.

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This article explores the concept of recovery and the role of vulnerability in suffering. It examines our overall discomfort with vulnerability in the context of narratives of violence, disorder, and the everyday. This discomfort is explored through a voyage of three narrative types: testimony, chaos, and restitution narratives (Frank, 1995). The article offers that while loss and narrative despair are the characteristic response of vulnerability storytelling does not always, contrary to dominant perspectives in narrative therapy and practice, result in narrative repair. Narrative despair…the pain, mourning, grief, and loss involved in telling stories…is central to a recovery of vulnerability.

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Frampton, Edith. "Fluid objects: Kleinian psychoanalytic theory and breastfeeding narratives." Australian Feminist Studies 19, no. 45 (November 2004): 357–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464042000278025.

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Beneki, Eleni, James P. Delgado, and Anastasia Filippoupoliti. "Memory in the maritime museum: objects, narratives, identities." International Journal of Heritage Studies 18, no. 4 (July 2012): 347–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2011.647861.

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Knutson, Sara Ann. "When Objects Misbehave." Fabula 61, no. 3-4 (November 25, 2020): 257–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2020-0014.

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AbstractThis article explores new possibilities for the interpretation of myths. It asks how people in the past configured their world and its complex interactions, to which their orally-constructed stories bear witness. It is assumed here that myths contain structures of belief, cognition, and world-making beyond their immediate subject matter. This article focuses specifically on the preservation of material objects in myths throughout their transmission from changing oral narratives to written form. We should not assume that objects in oral traditions simply color the narratives; rather, these representations of materials can provide clues into the mentalities of past peoples and how they understood the complex interaction between humans and materials. As a case study, I examine the Old Norse myths, stories containing materials that reinforced Scandinavian oral traditions and gave the stories traction, memory, and influence. In doing so, this article hopes to help bridge materiality studies, narrative studies, and folklore in a way that does not privilege one particular source type over another. The myths reveal ancient Scandinavian conceptions of what constituted an “object,” which are not necessarily the same as our own twenty-first century expectations. The Scandinavian myths present a world not divided between active Subject, passive Object as the Cartesian model would enforce centuries later, but rather one that recognized distinctive object agencies beyond the realm of human intention.

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Ruzich, Constance M. "Our deepest sympathy." Interaction Studies 9, no. 3 (December 5, 2008): 504–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.9.3.08ruz.

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This research provides a qualitative elaboration of the research of Reeves and Nass (1996) and Ferdig and Mishra (2004), examining the ways in people relate to computers as social agents. Specifically, this paper investigates the ways in which humans, due to a natural tendency to anthropomorphize computers, may experience significant emotions of grief and loss when computers crash. A content analysis of narratives describing human reactions to computer crashes demonstrates that the metaphoric language used to describe computer failure frames humans’ experience with computer loss in language that highlights the negative impact of human/computer interaction and that references Kubler-Ross’s (1969) stage theory of grief: denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance.

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KALMAN, HILDUR. "Feelings of Loss and Grieving: Selves between Autonomy and Dependence." PhaenEx 7, no. 2 (December 16, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/p.v7i2.3562.

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A recurrent theme in contemporary narratives of grieving is that there is a gap between the griever’s more or less consciously chosen expression of, and acting out of, grief and loss and other people’s seeming lack of acceptance. Starting from the view that the social context of feelings and emotions are constitutive in making an emotional experience what it is, this article explores what is done and experienced in acts of grief. A phenomenological perspective is applied to analyze the conditioning of these experiences, and what the acts of grieving may accomplish in relation to various aspects of the self, indeed selves—that is, in relation to the surviving relative as well as the deceased.

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Araújo, Etyelle Pinheiro de, Liana de Andrade Biar, and Liliana Cabral Bastos. "ENGAGEMENT IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE: A STUDY ON THE NARRATIVES OF BLACK MOTHERS." Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada 59, no. 3 (September 2020): 1688–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/010318138361811120201113.

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ABSTRACT This article discusses the narrative practices of a Brazilian social movement whose members are the mothers and relatives of young people victimized by police raids into Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. By analysing the narratives produced by activists, we explore how grief is converted into political fight. As we look into how mothers intertwine their individual pain with political activism, we examine (i) how emotions and suffering are organized in their narratives; and (ii) what discursive strategies are used in the process. Data was generated during public demonstrations, and the analysis suggests that it is by turning the pain of a losing a child into political insurgence that mothers narratively organize their emotions. As stories get told, events surrounding the murders are recontextualized and experiences are collectivized. Mothers’ stories become narratives of resistance, which oppose institutional racism, but also narratives of re-existence (SOUZA, 2009), which recast the deaths of their children as an effect of a necropolitical logic of state organization.

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Matamonasa-Bennett, Arieahn. ""Until People Are Given the Right to Be Human Again": Voices of American Indian Men on Domestic Violence and Traditional Cultural Values." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37, no. 4 (January 1, 2013): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.37.4.e182111585n56001.

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Domestic violence is a serious social problem in contemporary American Indian communities and research is critical to create and evaluate prevention and intervention strategies. This small qualitative study sought to discover the ways in which men from a single reservation community with histories of domestic violence define and perceive domestic violence within the cultural context. The narratives held themes of intergenerational family violence and dysfunction, alcoholism, racism, isolation, deep grief, and remorse. Each of the narratives also revealed themes of healing and hope through connecting with elders, learning spiritual traditions and strengthening cultural identity as a means for achieving sobriety and lives of nonviolence.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Objects in grief narratives'

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