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      The Flash and Disenfranchised Grief
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      The Flash and Disenfranchised Grief

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      ByWilliam Feigelman, Beverly Feigelman, Justin Colon
      BookSuperhero Grief

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2020
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 4
      eBook ISBN 9780429056666
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      ABSTRACT

      Disenfranchised grief refers to a lack of social support and validation from social intimates to a perceived loss or death. Neimeyer and Jordan discuss disenfranchised grief as essentially an empathic failure between society and the mourner in which they fail to have their experience understood by those around them and instead often feel offended, wounded, or abandoned by a lack of an empathic response to loss. The Superhero The Flash, a fictional character, created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino for DC Comics, deals with his own unique bereavement issues and disenfranchised grief. Imaginary characters like The Flash enable audiences to identify with themselves and to cope with their own real-life difficulties from within the safe and remote realm of the fantasy narratives. The Flash character is a living embodiment of posttraumatic growth, having integrated losses of his parents, his mother’s own mysterious death, and his father’s unjust incarceration into dealing with these issues and helping distressed others in society.

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