{"title":"Fragments of Death: Configurations of My Mother","authors":"Dalia Rodriguez","doi":"10.1177/153270860100100404","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article is a story about the author’s experiences dealing with her mother who had manic depression for a large part of her life. In the story, the author attempts to have the reader understand the difficulties of dealing with a mentally ill parent; the feelings of guilt, frustration, and fear; as well as the deep sense of loss after her death.","PeriodicalId":46996,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","volume":"42 1","pages":"450 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153270860100100404","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article is a story about the author’s experiences dealing with her mother who had manic depression for a large part of her life. In the story, the author attempts to have the reader understand the difficulties of dealing with a mentally ill parent; the feelings of guilt, frustration, and fear; as well as the deep sense of loss after her death.
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The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.