Snow White, a Mirror and Whiteness: Entangling thoughts in metaphors

Sheila Trahar

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6114-2_10

Snow White, a Mirror and Whiteness: Entangling thoughts in metaphors

Sheila Trahar^*

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Abstract

This chapter is a creative exploration of the author's questioning of the meanings, for her, of being awhite, British, female academic.Writing as the fairy tale character, Snow White, she engages in conversations with The Mirror, sometimes entering the mirror to imagine worlds different from her own. The conversations are fictionalised to some extent, but they use vignettes based on events from her experiences of research and teaching in different contexts, several of which are former British colonies. Positioned firmly within narrative inquiry, autoethnography and fictionalisation, the chapter reveals how the author entangles her thoughts in metaphors as she, being both grave and light, acts upon them to enable greater insight and self-understanding.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor
Subtitle of host publication	Methodologies and Practices
Editors	Sandy Farquhar, Esther Fitzpatrick
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	10
Pages	149-165
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811361142
ISBN (Print)	9789811361135
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6114-2_10
Publication status	Published - Apr 2019

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Keywords

Colonisation
Fictionalisation
Narrative
Whiteness

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Trahar, S. (2019). Snow White, a Mirror and Whiteness: Entangling thoughts in metaphors. In S. Farquhar, & E. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor: Methodologies and Practices (pp. 149-165). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6114-2_10

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