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A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism

Visual Communication

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Abstract

Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 339-378, February 2026.
This article critically explores the concept of ‘adoption’ via the semiotic analysis of the picture bookA Mama for Owen(Bauer and Butler, 2007), which stands here as a testimony of adoption narratives and the ways in which they are creatively re-...