Memoir as Counter Narrative: using creative nonfiction to explore visual impairment and mental illness and challenge dominant models of disability

这个实践研究项目将产生一本回忆录，探索卡罗琳的精神疾病和视力障碍的生活经历。这将是一个原始的贡献，并干预，辩论周围的残疾和禁忌的阐述精神和身体健康不良。卡罗琳将使用创造性的非小说创作，以产生一个反叙事，挑战残疾的主导模式的不足。这项工作将有助于公众的“自己的声音”辩论，目的是通过分享少数群体的生活经验和残疾人运动的口号“没有我们，就没有我们”（查尔顿，1998年），使讲故事的方式多样化。随附的评论将探讨资源创造性非小说提供作为一种工具，提高公众意识，通过第一人称叙事。

This practice research project will produce a memoir exploring Caroline's lived experience of mental ill health and visual impairment. It will be an original contribution to, and intervention in, debates surrounding disability and the taboos of articulating mental and physical ill health. Caroline will use creative nonfiction to produce a counter narrative that challenges the inadequacy of dominant models of disability. This work will contribute to the public 'OwnVoices' debate aiming to diversify storytelling by sharing the lived experience of minority groups, and the disabled movement's rallying cry "nothing about us without us" (Charlton, 1998). The accompanying critical commentary will explore the resources creative nonfiction offers as a vehicle for raising public awareness through first person narration.