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'This paper discusses my quest for a narrative means to give voice to the story of my adoption. Using practice-led research to explore my adoption experience, I wrote a memoir entitled ‘Darling Adopted Daughter’ for the degree of Doctor of Creative Arts at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). The memoir investigates the adoption wounds I sustained when separated at birth from my biological mother and was adopted three weeks later into a family with three existing biological children. ' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph:
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates
their lives, power to retell it, deconstruct it, joke about it,
and change it as times change, truly are powerless,
because they cannot think new thoughts.
–– Salman Rushdie 1991
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‘Darling Adopted Daughter’ : A Practice-Led Exploration of Adoption Wounds through the Writing of a Memoir
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
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