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dc.contributor.authorTamboukou, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-22T03:01:22Z
dc.date.available2018-05-22T03:01:22Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1448-4528
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14484528.2013.810242
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173313
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I consider interfaces between visual and textual representations of the female self in art. I am looking in particular at Gwen John's self-portraits and the letters revolving around them. In this context, there are three thematic areas that I explore: a) questions around portraiture in general and the self-portrait in particular, b) connections between visual images and textual narratives in life-writing research and c) genealogical lines in John's self-representation through her paintings and letters. What I suggest is that John's self-portraits become events for playing with different modalities of self-representation and experimenting with other ways of painting the self, while her letters become texts destabilizing and interrogating conventions of reading the visual. What I finally argue is that the visual turn in narrative research needs to consider carefully discourses and debates in the field of art histories, while the latter have to become more informed in the nuances of life narrative research.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom75
dc.relation.ispartofpageto91
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLife Writing
dc.relation.ispartofvolume12
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLiterary studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther language, communication and culture
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4799
dc.titleFarewell to the self: Between the letter and the self-portrait
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Life Writing on 25 Jun 2013, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/14484528.2013.810242
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gro.griffith.authorTamboukou, Maria


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