'Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss.' (Publication summary)
'The widely acknowledged memoir boom has thrown the limelight on this contested genre. While memoir has received significant critical attention in recent times, it is striking that the sub-genre of the grief memoir has seen little scholarly investigation until now. But then the grief memoir, in particular women’s grief memoirs, itself is a ‘relatively new literary form’, as Kathleen Fowler has argued (525).' (Introduction)
'The widely acknowledged memoir boom has thrown the limelight on this contested genre. While memoir has received significant critical attention in recent times, it is striking that the sub-genre of the grief memoir has seen little scholarly investigation until now. But then the grief memoir, in particular women’s grief memoirs, itself is a ‘relatively new literary form’, as Kathleen Fowler has argued (525).' (Introduction)
