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Forced out of a life narrative into the open
Author(s) -
Speedy Jane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1002/capr.12091
Subject(s) - staring , narrative , visual arts , ethnography , space (punctuation) , poetry , aesthetics , sociology , the arts , art , literature , linguistics , philosophy , communication , anthropology
This paper is composed of several texts. It contains fragments of writing based on extracts from ‘Staring at the park: an auto‐ethnographic poetic inquiry’, an award‐winning book by Jane Speedy, and a series of images made with an i‐Pad. The visual text does not illustrate the written version. They are, rather, placed alongside each other, in juxtaposition, as if placed together in a gallery or installation. Thus frameworks from the visual arts are used within this piece to uphold more literary forms and, perhaps, to ‘trouble’ and open out our usual ways of seeing and attending to research texts. I hope this piece allows people in to a poet‐stroke life space that is the UK's biggest cause of disability, but is not much talked about or understood.