Megküzdési stratégiák és narratív identitás Fenyvesi Judit szociális testvér önéletírásában
Mechanisms of Coping and Narrative Identity in the Autobiography of Judit Fenyvesi, A Member of the Sisters of Social Service

Summary/Abstract: In my paper I examine Sister Judith Fenyvesi’s biography A Journey of Light in the Darkness, in line with a focus on narrative identities and resilience. The biography is about a woman who is born in Jewish middle class family, but she had to become Catholic; because she was a persecuted person in Romania during the Nazism and the communism, and eventually emigrated to Buffalo (USA). Her life was characterized by the most determined events of the 20th century and its aftermaths. The examined path of life was conditioned by the II. World War, the Holocaust, the Catholic Resistance movement, her imprisonment, the preparation for a new life and also her cancer. Although in this paper I focus on mechanisms of coping instead of victimhood narrative, as does the presented biography. While a variety of definitions of the term biography have been suggested, this paper is based on the definition of autobiography by Philippe Lejeune and on the theories of narrative identity of Paul Ricoeur.

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