The opposite of gone
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Sandra Gilbert writes, "What if, cries the griever, just as the sci-fi writer does." Tentatively titled The Opposite of Gone, this nonfiction project employs personal narrative in experimental and lyric forms alongside research to examine the --precariously speculative-- place in which grievers often live. Drawing on both feminist theories of grief and care as well as personal experience--the loss of a partner to suicide and the deep and unlikely bond formed with his mother, as well as the histories of mental illness, premature death, and the supernatural in the writer's family--the book examines the effects our current ideologies and institutions of grief and care have on us. Perhaps even more importantly, the project unveils the barriers which prevent earlier and more proactive instances of intergenerational knowledge-sharing which disrupt harmful expectations of isolation and suppression of our pain and grief.
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