[Sandra Pinasco]

Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share my new article titled “Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies” published in the a/b Autobiography Studies Journal. You can find the abstract and the link to the article below:

Ambiguous Loss in Grief Memoirs: Meaning Making in Auster and Giralt Torrente Patriographies
ABSTRACT
This article considers grief memoirs as a medium to create meaning amid the ambiguous loss that occurs when someone close is gone without any apparent reason. This experience may be resolved through a life narrative that holds and accepts all the different versions of that complex relationship; the presence/absence ambiguity of the person lost may be clarified by creating a narrative that encompasses all possible explorations. The article approaches Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude (1982) and Marcos Giralt Torrente’s Tiempo de vida (2010) as “patriographies”—grief memoirs that achieve a meaning-making process through the different strategies they propose to deal with their fathers’ loss.
KEYWORDS: Ambiguous loss, grief memoir, meaning making, Patriography
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2024.2331266

Best regards,
Sandra Pinasco
Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (Lima, Peru)
sandra.pinasco@uarm.pe

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