Informal caregivers often experience expectancy violations when caring for loved ones. The experience of becoming an informal caregiver may for example challenge their expectations of themselves as caregivers and expectations regarding their own future. This thesis aims to investigate these schema violations as prominent themes in contemporary Scandinavian caregiving fiction.
The thesis will further explore how actual informal caregivers interpret caregiving fiction in a reading group setting. Using the shared reading method developed by The Reader Association, I will lead a reading group for informal caregivers, where we will read and interpret caregiving fiction featuring schema violations together. Thus, the dissertation will explore both different types of schema violations in contemporary Scandinavian caregiving fiction as well as its effects on meaning making practices in a reading group of actual informal caregivers.
Publications from the project
“Sygdommen satte spor i os. Den pårørendes afsøgning af kropslige grænser og identitet i Hanne Ørstaviks Ti Amo (2020) og Amalie Smiths I CIVIL (2012),” Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 35 (2024): 21-32.