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Contemporary American Memoirs in Action : How to Do Things with Memoir
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ISBN: 9783319696027 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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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. .


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Identity papers : contemporary narratives of American Jewishness
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ISBN: 1438439245 9781438439242 9781438439235 1438439237 9781438439228 1438439229 Year: 2011 Publisher: Albany, NY SUNY Press

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Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.

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