Family Trouble (eBook, ePUB)

Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
Redaktion: Castro, Joy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption.Essays by twenty-five memoirists, including Faith Adiele, Alison Bechdel, Jill Christman, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rigoberto González, Robin Hemley, Dinty W. Moore, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Mimi Schwartz, explore the fraught territory of family history told from one perspective, which, from another angle in the family drama, might appear quite different indeed. In her introduction to this book, Joy Castro, herself a memoirist, explores the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and offers practical strategies for this tricky but necessary subject.A sustained and eminently readable lesson in the craft of memoir, Family Trouble serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496209160
• Artikelnr.: 59619244

Autorenporträt

Joy Castro is a professor of both English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of several books including Island of Bones (winner of an International Latino Book Award in nonfiction), The Truth Book, and How Winter Began: Stories. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mapping Hope
      Joy Castro
Part 1. Drawing Lines
Chewing Band-Aids: One Memoirist's Take on the Telling of Family Secrets
      Jill Christman
Sally Could Delete Whatever She Wanted
      Paul Austin
Case by Case: When It Comes to Family You Still Have to Talk To
      Mimi Schwartz
At Its Center
      Paul Lisicky
The Day I Cried at Starbucks
      Ruth Behar
Memory Lessons
      Rigoberto González
The Part I Can't Tell You
      Ariel Gore
Part 2. The Right to Speak
What the Little Old Ladies Feel: How I Told My Mother about My Memoir
      Alison Bechdel
Truths We Could Live With
      Robin Hemley
Writing the Black Family Home
      Faith Adiele
The Deeper End of the Quarry: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Family Dilemma
      Dinty W. Moore
Mama's Voices
      Susan Olding
Living in Someone Else's Closet
      Susan Ito
Part 3. Filling the Silence
The True Story
      Karen Salyer McElmurray
I Might Be Famous
      Ralph James Savarese
A Spell against Sorrow: Writing My Father In
      Judith Ortiz Cofer
Things We Don't Talk About
      Aaron Raz Link
You Can't Burn Everything
      Allison Hedge Coke
Done with Grief: The Memoirist's Illusion
      Sandra Scofield
Part 4. Conversations of Hope
The Seed Book
      Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Calling Back
      Lorraine M. López
Like Rain on Dust
      Richard Hoffman
The Bad Asian Daughter
      Bich Minh Nguyen
Your Mother Should Know
      Sue William Silverman
Writing about Family
      Heather Sellers
Gratitude
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors