The Reparative in Narratives

Rosello, Mireille

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“…Therefore, people are not vulnerable all the time, but are always vulnerable in a temporary way to something, in some way or to some degree, at certain points in space and time 9 . Moreover, further, human beings are, in some aspects, much more vulnerable than other living beings; nevertheless they are able to appropriate themselves intellectually of their vulnerability and seek ways of facing it; when they suffer, however, it is necessary to find meaning for their suffering, so as to respond to their vulnerability and save it, to a certain extent 1 . The illness affects not only the anatomical and physiological structure, but also the cultural aspects, represented by the ignorance of the grounds and reasons for the illness or by not knowing which care and treatments the ill person is receiving 2 .…”

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“…However, when the being falls ill, when he is unable to carry out the habitual routine of his everyday, due to a somatic, social or psychological illness, he perceives clearly the situation of vulnerability of his being 2 ; in the same way that, based on the knowledge that each person is made up and is realized through close interaction with other human beings, he creates with them society, that is, polis, community, fellowship of life. Much human, personal or family suffering is the consequence of social environment, or, more concretely, of vulnerable social surroundings 1 . In the face of this one may observe that society imposes rules of which we are, to a degree, consensual heirs.…”

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“…In this way, to live humanly means to live in vulnerability 1 , this emphasizing the child with oncological pain, who may feel herself to be incapable of self-care at certain periods in her oncological path, at least in the beginning of life; she may be physically, psychologically and cognitively dependent.…”

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Dimensoes da vulnerabilidade para as familias da crianca com dor oncologica em ambiente hospitalar

Motta

Diefenbach

2013

Esc. Anna Nery

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The study aims to show the dimensions of vulnerability in the universe of the family, from the viewpoint of families with children with cancer pain in the hospital environment. It is descriptive and exploratory, with a qualitative approach, undertaken in the Hematology and Pediatric Oncology Center of a large hospital in the city of Porto Alegre -RS. Nine families participated, with the Creative-Sensitive Method used for data collection, through the dynamics of creativity and sensitivity, analyzed in line with the framework of Minayo's Content Analysis, in May-June 2010. It was observed that the illness raises situations of vulnerability, imposing suffering, pain, fear, distress, mental and physical strain caused by cancer on the child and family. Thus, Nursing, in appropriating the conceptual framework of the vulnerability, can visualize new dimensions of the health/illness process, helping the ill child and her family. RESUMENIdentificar aspectos que demuestran las dimensiones de una vulnerabilidad en el universo familiar en la perspectiva de la familia de niños con dolor oncológica. Estudio descriptivo, exploratorio, con enfoque cualitativo, realizado en la Unidad de Hematología e Oncología Pediátrica, de un hospital de gran porte en la ciudad de Porto Alegre, RS. Nueve familias participaron de este estudio, que se realizó por medio de la recopilación de datos por el método creativo a través de la dinámica de creatividad y sensibilidad, analizada según el referencial de Análisis de Contenido de Minayo, entre los meses de mayo y junio de 2010. Se ha constatado que la enfermedad emerge la vulnerabilidad, trayendo sufrimiento, dolor física y mental al niño y a su familia. Así, la Enfermería, al apropiarse del marco conceptual de la vulnerabilidad, puede mostrar nuevas dimensiones del proceso salud/enfermedad y ayudar al niño y a su familia.

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2013

Esc. Anna Nery

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“…The reparative in narratives is not a cure but it may help us reread the metaphor of a diseased past as a problematic reconstruction. 23 What Rosello applies to a memorial narrative can be said of the return narrative which like the memorial narrative will 'always be limited and imperfect, sometimes undecidable and eminently fragile', 24 as shown in Laferrière's L'Énigme du retour and Rakotoson's Juillet au pays. Both writers, through their reflections on the writing of 'true mourning', subvert the autobiographical or assumed authenticity of the travel text.…”

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Home and the ‘failed’ city in postcolonial narratives of ‘dark return’

Ravi¹

2014

Postcolonial Studies

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“…Ecopoetics (distinct from the AngloSaxon variants of ecocriticisim 11 ) is primarily a French innovation 12 that addresses how texts approach and write nature: 10 species, 12 where the borders between them are subject to critical inquiry. Nature and natural elements are not simply images at the service of the writer/text.…”

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The Ecopoetics of Reparation: Sebald, Darrieussecq, and Barthes

McCaffrey¹

2016

Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies

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This article explores the displacement of trauma to the ecopoetics of reparation. Drawing on theories of reparation 1 and textual ecopoetics, 12 I examine the ways in which a textual turn to nature-"une sensibilité écologique" 23 that encompasses the atomic, cosmological, mineral, animal, and vegetal-serves a reparative function for the effects of trauma. With reference to W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (2002), Marie Darrieussecq's Tom est mort (2007), and RolandBarthes's Journal de deuil (2009), I analyze reparation from trauma from different ecopoetic perspectives: Sebald's gardens, Darrieussecq's cosmos, and Barthes's animalia. The turn to the ecopoetic enables these writers to rethink trauma outside the co-ordinates of chronological time, the mortal (gendered) body, anthropocentrism, self and identity, and inside an ecopoetical discourse where identity and language is reformed and relearned, and critically where trauma is reframed in a reparative discourse of an "eco-parloir" 4 underpinned by language, imagery, and cultural reference. Trauma TheoryCritics acknowledge that trauma cannot be represented as past but is perpetually re-experienced in a present. 45 Intrinsic to this re-experience is the construction of trauma retroactively and the creation of distance from an event in order to realize its impact. I want to pursue another line of enquiry that addresses trauma in the context of reparation. Marianne Hirsch's recent work on epimemory 6 is a valuable exploration in this area. 5 Positing epi-memory as a counterpoint to 2 historical and gendered accounts of trauma, Hirsch identifies the human epidermis as a space of projection to channel memory. Central to her argument is how a methodology of the skin can be transformative in dislodging the personalization of trauma and producing political and aesthetic strategies to repair the experience of trauma. This article sits within this broad reparative framework by investigating the role of ecopoetics on the experience of trauma. Drawing on Freud's concepts of "acting out" and "working through" trauma, Dominick LaCapra (2001) and Mireille Rosello (2010) equate the concept of "acting-out" situations of trauma with a tendency to relive the past. For Freud and LaCapra, this compulsive tendency to repeat trauma is destructive and self-destructive. 67 Related to this tendency of "acting out" but also a countervailing force, is the concept of "working through," where the tendency is to gain critical distance from a traumatic event. Distinguishing between these two concepts is problematic for LaCapra. He claims that the lines between identification with the other ("acting out") and transcendence of the other ("working through") are blurred. 78 However, he acknowledges that neither concept points in the direction of a "redemptive" narrative where redemption is an overarching narrative that resolves the traumatized's experience. Mireille Rosello replaces redemption with reparation as an accommodation between "acting out" and "working through.".She echoes LaCapra's argument...

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The Reparative in Narratives

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Dimensoes da vulnerabilidade para as familias da crianca com dor oncologica em ambiente hospitalar

Dimensoes da vulnerabilidade para as familias da crianca com dor oncologica em ambiente hospitalar

Home and the ‘failed’ city in postcolonial narratives of ‘dark return’

The Ecopoetics of Reparation: Sebald, Darrieussecq, and Barthes

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