Julie Rak

Boom!

Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 375g
• ISBN-13: 9781554589395
• ISBN-10: 1554589398
• Artikelnr.: 36958331

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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