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Lost and Found
被引:5
|作者:
Jones, Stacy Holman
[1
]
机构:
[1] Calif State Univ Northridge, Dept Commun Studies, Northridge, CA 91330 USA
关键词:
Relational Subjectivities;
Personal Accounts;
Performative Writing;
Change;
D O I:
10.1080/10462937.2011.602709
中图分类号:
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号:
03 ;
0303 ;
摘要:
This essay revisits my earlier work on the intersections of adoption, relationships, performativity, and storytelling. Some years removed from adopting a child, learning about my grandmother's adoption, and writing how relationships are made in the performance of stories, I reconsider the power of texts that tell us into and out of being. Using pluralized voices-differences in form and mode of exchange and address-I write to show how identities and lives are performed in relation to others. Through modularity, I use repetition to show how more-or-less discrete forms and scenes happen again and again not only in accounts of our lives, but also in our identities and relationships. Specifically, I write in and through a series of changes, losses, and discoveries: the death of my grandmother, the disintegration of my marriage, the decision not to adopt another child, the forging of a new queer identity, and the gifts that a return to writing these stories provides.
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页码:322 / 341
页数:20
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