ABSTRACT An active relational practice of hope requires that individuals connect and communicate with one another in attempt to deal with despair and imagine an inhabitable future. For families grieving the death of a family member, this process often takes place through family storytelling while individuals simultaneously move through their own unique bereavement experience. Teens face difficulty in this process, as the context of their lives and the pressure to act a particular way for others often leaves them feeling disconnected and voiceless. In this ethnographic project, I served as a teen camp counselor at a family bereavement camp where teens relied upon aesthetic, embodied narrative experiences to communicate amid these difficulties. Specifically, these narrative resources enabled teens to acknowledge the value of their perspectives and re-engage in life in affirming ways, reject confining scripts for “appropriate” grief and co-create new ones that felt true to their journeys, and re-integrate themselves into their family storytelling practices with an affective voice in which they had recognized legitimacy and gained confidence. Findings suggest the capacity of these narrative resources to connect individuals in meaningful ways and foster resilience in family storytelling following the significant disruptions that the death of a loved one imposes.

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难以形容的悲伤中的叙事资源：青少年在家庭叙事中培养人脉和韧性

摘要积极的希望关系实践要求个人相互联系和交流，以应对绝望并想象可居住的未来。对于悲伤的家庭成员来说，这个过程通常是通过讲述家庭故事来进行的，而个人则同时经历着自己独特的丧亲经历。青少年在此过程中面临困难，因为他们的生活背景以及对他人采取特殊方式的压力常常使他们感到与世隔绝和无声。在这个民族志项目中，我在一个家庭丧葬营中担任青少年营地顾问，在这些困难中，青少年依靠审美，体现的叙事经验进行交流。特别，这些叙事资源使青少年能够以肯定的方式认可自己观点的价值并重新投入生活，拒绝因“适当的”悲伤而被限制的剧本，并共同创造出对自己的旅程感到真实的新剧本，并将自己重新融入到自己的生活中。家庭讲故事的做法具有情感影响力，使他们认识到合法性并获得了信心。研究结果表明，在亲人之死造成的重大破坏之后，这些叙事资源具有以有意义的方式联系个人并增强家庭叙事能力的能力。然后以情感的声音将自己重新融入他们的家庭叙事实践中，从而使他们认识到合法性并获得信心。研究结果表明，在亲人之死造成的重大破坏之后，这些叙事资源具有以有意义的方式联系个人并增强家庭叙事能力的能力。然后以情感的声音将自己重新融入家庭叙事实践中，从而使他们认识到合法性并获得信心。研究结果表明，在亲人之死造成的重大破坏之后，这些叙事资源具有以有意义的方式联系个人并增强家庭叙事能力的能力。