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Autobiography is the story of a life. Memoir is the story of a moment, a relationship, a question, an obsession — told from inside a life. Auto-fiction is the recognition that the story we tell about ourselves was never simply true. Key sections include: Memoir & Autobiography.; Opening What we mean.; Chapter I The first Confessions.; Chapter II 1782.; Chapter III Spiritual lives.; Chapter IV The American slave narrative.; Chapter V Modernist memoir.; Chapter VI Speak, Memory.; Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.; Chapter VIII 1990s memoir..
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