Creative arts and critical autobiography : challenges of blending the deeply personal and the academic in qualitative research

Yuki Itani-Adams

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Abstract

In 2002 I completed my doctoral thesis Daughters of Persephone: legacies of maternal 'madness' (Catherine Camden Pratt 2002) which used creative arts and critical auto-biography as auto-ethnographic method. In this chapter I discuss these as research method and as a way of representing research in critical social sciences. In it I focus on aspects of writing, painting, collage and symbol use. I highlight the political challenges of these cross-disciplinary and messy ways of researching within the academy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBeing Critical and Creative in Qualitative Research
EditorsJoy Higgs, Angie Titchen, Debbie Horsfall, Hilary Armstrong
Place of PublicationSydney, N.S.W
PublisherHampden Press
Pages248-260
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9781875648191
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Keywords

  • research
  • social sciences
  • arts
  • methodology
  • autobiography

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