This textual House of Mirrors explores and performs autobiography in/as re-search through the presentation of poetry, personal stories, and theoropoetic ruminations. The themes of writing, mothering, and teaching are reflected by examining the self/selves in the context of textual and living others. This book also incorporates the contributions of women's autobiographical writings and provides some curricular applications for autobiography in education. Drawing upon feminist and literary thought, House of Mirrors reflexively enacts the possibilities, ethical complications, and disruptions of writing autobiographically about self, others, and autobiography.

Autorentext

The Author: Renee Norman is a prize-winning poet and writer who teaches in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where she received her Ph.D. in language education. Her doctoral dissertation received the 2000 Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her poetry, stories, and articles have been published widely in literary and academic journals, anthologies, and newspapers. She is the mother of three schoolage daughters.

Zusammenfassung
"In an era when inquiry in education has opened itself to narration, Renee Norman has boldly-positioned herself in discursive spaces of autobiography, feminism, and post-structuralism. In dwelling midst complexly textured reflections in a 'House of Mirrors', she not only articulates delicate strands of lives lived narratively, but also allows texts to perform, often poetically. Readers are likely to be drawn into the context of metonymic spaces participating generatively in constituting new meanings. Indeed, a remarkable, inviting book!" (Ted J. Aoki, Emeritus Professor, University of Alberta, Canada)
"Renee Norman juxtaposes poetry, journal entries, letter-writing, lesson plans, and scholarly analyses to interrogate her own and other women's writing. In so doing, she constructs a textual "house of mirrors", a refractive study of feminist writing on autobiography and of the pedagogical possibilities of writing by and about women. As we wind and double back through this metaphoric maze of mirrors, we cannot help but re-view our multiple selves in relation to questions of identity, representation, research, and pedagogy that Norman explores. Our engagements with Norman's text(s) attest to the ways in which this important book both challenges and performs the uses of autobiography in/as educational research." (Janet L. Miller, Professor, National College of Education, National-Louis University)