Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing Margaret Atwood and Other Contemporary Women Writers Pre-Owned Hardcover 0814210643 9780814210642 Phyllis Sternberg Perraki

This is a Pre-Owned book. All our books are in Good or better condition. Format: Hardcover Author: Phyllis Sternberg Perraki ISBN10: 0814210643 ISBN13: 9780814210642 InAdventures of the Spirit Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis brings together eleven American and Canadian ldquo;literary gerontologistsrdquo; to examine a new kind of adventure for the older woman in literature. This volume of critical essays analyzes recent works by contemporary women writers whose charactersrsquo; midlife and later life changes are mapped in their narratives. Rather than focusing on the painful losses undergone by women of a certain age nbsp;recent narrativesnbsp;explore a new kind of adventure of aging one that is spiritual in nature enabling new ways of being and becoming but open-ended and capable of great variation in practice. In particular these journeys of the spirit focus on the retrospective movement undergone by a midlife or older woman as she is led by inner or outer forces to assess where she has come from and decipher a shape or pattern to her journey. These journeys do not leave the body behind as they map new spiritual territory. Rather they honor spiritrsquo;s embrace of the natural world and relationships as well as its aspirations for evolving development and eternal existence.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Thenbsp;essays inAdventures of the Spiritemploy a wide variety of critical lenses to chart these adventures including archetypal Sufi post-colonial and feminist analysis; archival research; aboriginal life writing; and trauma theory. These studies bring a new understanding to womenrsquo;s adventure of age in both literary texts and in life. nbsp; nbsp