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The Pure Lover and the mature mourner: The literary expression of grief in David Plante's memoir and its cultural, educational, and therapeutic significance.
- Source :
- Psychology & Sexuality; Dec2022, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p996-1009, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Among multiple grief narratives published in recent decades, The Pure Lover: AMemoir of Grief (2009) by David Plante stands out in its self-reflective and nonnormative approach to grief. Focusing on same-gender partner bereavement, this qualitative study explores the following areas: (1) the cultural, supportive, and egalitarian functions of the arts in The Pure Lover; (2) select grief approaches in the context of Plante's memoir to illustrate and verify those approaches; and (3) the memoir as a cost-effective educational and bibliotherapeutic aid for those who support, care for, and work with older LGBTIQ+ grievers. Based on lived experience, grief memoirs, a sub-genre of life writing, constitute longitudinal narrative case studies. As such, they can help deconstruct normative viewpoints and promote the cultural significance of the arts in grief support; provide scholars with verifiable literary data to update bereavement concepts and theories, especially in such underexplored areas as bereavement in older LGBTIQ+ adults; boost a more ethical and inclusive approach to grief-stricken patients and clients; and provide a low-triggering bibliotherapeutic tool in bereavement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19419899
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Psychology & Sexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159585022
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1975805