Open AccessA Victorious Roman Holiday: Life Writing and Loving Beyond Boundaries
Author(s) -
Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of life writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2211-243X
DOI - 10.21827/ejlw.10.38168
Subject(s) - life writing , optimism , feeling , order (exchange) , covid-19 , history , pandemic , aesthetics , sociology , literature , psychology , art , biography , art history , social psychology , medicine , disease , finance , pathology , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Immobile during the Coronavirus pandemic, I question the PhD I am currently working on because it focuses on life writing about frequent international migration in childhood. Feeling stuck and disheartened, I look for a little ray of hope in order to escape my Covid-19 limbo. Thinking about how the life writers I am studying would deal with recounting the past experiences of my mobile family, through this Creative Matters piece, I ultimately win endurance and optimism by telling my parents’ story of conquering love beyond boundaries.