From James Frey's A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.
From James Frey's A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual experiences.
Julie Rak is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004), the editor of Auto/biography in Canada (WLU Press, 2005), and co-editor, with Anna Poletti, of Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves. Her website can be found at https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/julie-rak/home
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Table of Contents for Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market, by Julie Rak Gratitude Introduction: Identifying the Memoir Industry Chapter 1: "More Books!": Publishing, Non-fiction, and the Memoir Boom Chapter 2: Bookstores, Genre, and Everyday Practices Chapter 3: Going Public: Selected Memoirs Produced by Random House and HarperCollins Chapter 4: Exceptionally Public: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces Conclusion: Citizen Selves and the State of the Memoir Boom Notes References Index
Table of Contents for Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market, by Julie Rak Gratitude Introduction: Identifying the Memoir Industry Chapter 1: "More Books!": Publishing, Non-fiction, and the Memoir Boom Chapter 2: Bookstores, Genre, and Everyday Practices Chapter 3: Going Public: Selected Memoirs Produced by Random House and HarperCollins Chapter 4: Exceptionally Public: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces Conclusion: Citizen Selves and the State of the Memoir Boom Notes References Index
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