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In the lobby and the dining room, Guiseppa''s walls are decorated with fairytale stills depicting digitally generated Disneyland scenery,occupied by the most famous of Walt Disney''s characters. Then, in Giuseppa''s own room, I found the first trace of Perdita''s Dalmatianfamily in the form of incidental black-and-white spots on a framed portrait of St. Teresa. Giuseppa became a surrogate mother to meduring my stay. I was not her daughter, but I was a daughter striving to understand.Of Dogs and Daughters brings a compelling record of female artists and writers, whose voices have been documented and collected through friendships and chance encounters. Combined with found material that proposes dog-human perspectives, this book attempts to redefine the mother-daughter relationship through a surrogate lens, exploring images of closeness, of anxieties conjured up by film franchises and mechanisms of nostalgia aimed at caregivers and children. The contributions by artists Carmen Dusmet Carr

Of Dogs and Daughters

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In the lobby and the dining room, Guiseppa''s walls are decorated with fairytale stills depicting digitally generated Disneyland scenery,occupied by... Read more

    Publisher: Onomatopee
    Publication Date: 01/01/2024
    ISBN13: 9789083362199, 978-9083362199
    ISBN10: 9083362191

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    In the lobby and the dining room, Guiseppa''s walls are decorated with fairytale stills depicting digitally generated Disneyland scenery,occupied by the most famous of Walt Disney''s characters. Then, in Giuseppa''s own room, I found the first trace of Perdita''s Dalmatianfamily in the form of incidental black-and-white spots on a framed portrait of St. Teresa. Giuseppa became a surrogate mother to meduring my stay. I was not her daughter, but I was a daughter striving to understand.Of Dogs and Daughters brings a compelling record of female artists and writers, whose voices have been documented and collected through friendships and chance encounters. Combined with found material that proposes dog-human perspectives, this book attempts to redefine the mother-daughter relationship through a surrogate lens, exploring images of closeness, of anxieties conjured up by film franchises and mechanisms of nostalgia aimed at caregivers and children. The contributions by artists Carmen Dusmet Carr

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