@article{ref1,
title="The self-murderer from Orminge" A bereaved daughter's remonstrance to "rescue" her Self through a performed memoir of revolt",
journal="Narrative inquiry",
year="2014",
author="Hagström, A.S.",
volume="24",
number="2",
pages="218-238",
abstract="Moral discourses, which operate to create difference among people, construct and reconstruct a &quot;suicide stigma&quot; whereby the suicide-bereaved are stigmatized in their social contexts and thus prevented from communicating their experience of loss. Departing from a performance-based pragmatic approach, this article uses Bamberg's (1997) positioning theory to analyze a young woman's performed memoir as her way of resisting this stigmatizing position. Following her mother's suicide, the daughter-narrator breaks the silence, renegotiates meaning and claims her normalcy - And that of people like her. The audience members, who partake in the emotional and relational aspects of her grief, are positioned as witnesses. They represent society and &quot;the moral court of law&quot;, and are endowed with the power to liberate the narrator from her guilt. This article showcases how the narrative format of a performative memoir can enable a process of de-stigmatization and in addition work to empower and help normalize the stigmatized experiences of others.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1387-6740",
doi="10.1075/ni.24.2.03hag",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.24.2.03hag"
}