A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography

by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Book Overview

Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality-a healing act that involves the writer in a "wrestle with words and meanings" that can be deeply regenerative. Narration can be a way of purging guilt and pain, re-centering the self, and reconnecting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138941174
• ISBN13: 9781138941175
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"