Download or read book Narrative of Suffering: Meaning and Experience in a Transcultural Approach written by Lolita Guimarães Guerra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume explores how people come to terms with suffering, how they experience the mystery of this human condition, and how future studies can shed some further light on the topic. Various perspectives are represented here, such as the use of narratives to delve into the reality of suffering, the emotional trauma that suffering brings, the narrative process, which manifests phenomenology and intersubjectivity and the emergence of gendered models of suffering. These approaches derive from multiple fields of research, creating a multi-perspectival view of suffering that transcend long-held disciplinary boundaries and stimulate a broader dialogue within contemporary scholarship on suffering-related themes. Such plurality points out that, in the end, despite its negative connotations, suffering positively affects individuals and society as it enables recognition of common bonds that link all people from all nations and all races. Compassion and sympathy leads to a transcendence that this book seeks to highlight.