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a| Brown, Megan
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a| American autobiography after 9/11 /
c| Megan Brown.
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a| Madison, Wisconsin :
b| The University of Wisconsin Press,
c| [2017]
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a| x, 155 pages ;
c| 24 cm.
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a| Wisconsin studies in autobiography
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a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
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a| Introduction -- Keeping it real: "fraud" memoirs and representations of ethnic authenticity -- Learning to live again: contemporary U.S. memoir as biopolitical self-care guide -- Memoirs of empire: encountering difference in the global marketplace -- Babies, blow jobs, and bombs: the bromoir and/as anxiety -- Selling subjectivity: business memoirs as biopolitical management -- The memoir as provocation: a case for "Me Studies" in undergraduate classes -- Afterword.
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a| In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell teach readers how to navigate a confusing, changing world. This lively and theoretically grounded book analyzes twenty-first-century memoirs from Three Cups of Tea to Fun Home, emphasizing the ways in which they reinforce and circulate ideologies, becoming guides or models for living. Brown expands her inquiry beyond books to the autobiographical narratives in reality television and political speeches. She offers a persuasive explanation for the memoir boom: the genre as a response to an era of uncertainty and struggle.
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a| Biography as a literary form.
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a| Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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