Cultural Practices as Forms of Resilience and Agency in Tracy Chevalier’s "A Single Thread"

This article discusses Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread (2019), with an emphasis on the parallels between writer’s interest in women’s resilient experiences, which lead to individual and community agency, role played these by cultural practices such as embroidery bell-ringing. focus is interwar period its closeness totalitarianism. Based aspects from theory of resilience (Cyrulnik 2006; Herman 1992; Vanistendael 2003), this explores how uses meanings associated can turn them into resources for modulating grief mobilising agency lives, both a social perspective. also considers that understanding oeuvre be help shaping future scholarly research writer.