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Memoir & Autobiography

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...

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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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  1. 01Memoir & Autobiography.
  2. 02Opening What we mean.
  3. 03Chapter I The first Confessions.
  4. 04Chapter II 1782.
  5. 05Chapter III Spiritual lives.
  6. 06Chapter IV The American slave narrative.
  7. 07Chapter V Modernist memoir.
  8. 08Chapter VI Speak, Memory.
  9. 09Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.
  10. 10Chapter VIII 1990s memoir.
  11. 11Chapter IX The Liars' Club.
  12. 12Chapter X Angela's Ashes.
  13. 13Chapter XI This Boy's Life.
  14. 14Chapter XII Vivian Gornick.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The ethics of memoir.
  16. 16Chapter XIV The truth question.
  17. 17Chapter XV The Year of Magical Thinking.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Just Kids.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The Argonauts.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The Art of Memoir.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Annie Ernaux.
  22. 22Chapter XX Beyond English.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The trauma memoir.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Illness memoir.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Celebrity vs. literary.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV The form's expansion.
  27. 27Chapter XXV The diary cousin.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Twenty-eight works.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
  30. 30Closing What memoir asks.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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