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    “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”

    Den Elzen K 2018 full_redacted for espace.pdf (1.472Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Den Elzen, Katrin
    Date
    2018
    Supervisor
    Dr. Rachel Robertson
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70488
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This creative writing doctorate consists of two components: firstly a creative work, namely a grief memoir, which depicts the illness and death of my husband and my subsequent recovery and rebuilding of fractured identity. Secondly the exegesis, which examines the representation of grief and the reconstruction of narrative identity in memoirs depicting young widowhood. It positions the theoretical approach at the intersection of autobiography scholarship and narrative psychology, specifically the Dialogical Self Theory.

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