Crossing Back : : Books, Family, and Memory without Pain / / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick.
From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close pr...
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De Marco Torgovnick, Marianna, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Crossing Back : Books, Family, and Memory without Pain / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (144 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Facing Grief -- 1. Living Tissue -- 2. Imagining Disaster -- 3. Mother’s Day -- Part II. Sustaining Things -- 4. Second Chances -- 5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke -- 6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality -- Part III. Memory without Pain -- 7. Food as Anthropological Lens -- 8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate -- The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal.A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals.A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Authors, American 21st century Biography. Books and reading Psychological aspects. Grief. Italian American women Biography. Gender & Sexuality. Health & Medicine. Memoir. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh Academic scandals / Duke University. Classics. Covid-19. Family. Meditation. Memory. Mourning. Reading. Yoga. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2021 English 9783110754179 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2021 9783110753943 ZDB-23-PLW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739091 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823297801?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823297801 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823297801/original |
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