Writing Mothers - Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation
epub | 2.31 MB | English | Author :BettyAnn Martin | 978-1772582239 | 2020 | Demeter Press

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The story of motherhood is told through many voices and in many contexts. When honoured with the task of composing a collective story from our authors' experiences, we gestured toward the function and power of story to transform. The collection is organized in three movements that mirror the interdependent narrative acts of reflecting, re-imagining, and re-writing. By reflecting, we refer to conscious engagement with experience that makes meaningful connections between past, present, and potential futures, provides context for who we understand ourselves to be, and guides our awareness of the narratives shaping our lives. Only after we become conscious of tired narratives and ontological frameworks that no longer serve, can we be free to re-imagine our experiences: to re-create and reconstruct the very foundations of meaning on which the emplotment of our lives is based. Finally, by re-imagining, we create opportunities to re-write all dimensions of experience (temporal, personal,...

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