Abstract
The following autoethnography reflects the author's emotional turmoil when her daughter asks about her birthmother. The moment causes her to reflect on the adoption process and how she lives simultaneously in a culture of love and culture of loss. She copes with the reality that her daughter might want to meet her birthmother one day. As an adoptive mother, she uses the language of adoption, feminism, and postmodernism to share her story. At a deeper level, she realizes that adoption will remain an unresolved issue. In the end, writing the autoethnography becomes transformative as the author gains a heightened awareness of the personal and social issues involved with being an adoptive parent.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
40
Issue
1
First Page
115
Last Page
125
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lee, Karen V.
(2008)
"Scrabble: An Autoethnography about Adoption,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 40:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol40/iss1/10
Copyright
©2008 Iowa Communication Association
