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  title info:
    title: Contemporary American Memoirs in Action
    sub title: How to Do Things with Memoir
  name:
    name part: Danielewicz, Jane.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 135 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book analyzes a collection of literary memoirs to demonstrate how this genre is an avenue for participation in public life. Writers are repurposing the memoir, a genre known for its personal and expressive function, to engage in debate and serve political goals. The chapters provide case studies for memoir as social action that effects change by looking at the writing of Joan Didion, John Edgar Wideman, James McBride, M. Elaine Mar, Janisse Ray, Lucy Grealy, and Ann Patchett. Drawing on theories of genre and agency, Danielewicz asserts how these writers are acting pragmatically. Memoirs contribute to democratic society by offering solutions, creating new knowledge, revealing social trends, bringing issues to light, creating empathy and connection, and changing public opinion. .
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Reflecting -- 3 Voicing -- 4 Reckoning -- 5 Advocating -- 6 Witnessing.
  note: by Jane Danielewicz.
  subject:
    topic: America-Literatures
  subject:
    topic: Literature-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-21st century
  subject:
    topic: North American Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literary Theory
  subject:
    topic: Contemporary Literature
  classification: PN843-846
  classification: 809.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
  identifier: 9783319696027
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69602-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 171114
    record change date: 20191025151401.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-69602-7