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message 1: by Lauren (new)

Lauren Cooper Great list concept - exactly the type of memoirs I love.

I’m researching memoir for my PhD and a helpful term I came across is the ‘nobody memoir’*. It seems relevant to this list.

The term relates to these non-celebrity type memoirs, where we don’t already know about the author’s life. The author is instead ‘ordinary’, ‘nobody’ as opposed to a ‘somebody’, a celebrity or well-known figure.

Secondly...

Recommendations? I’m looking for feminist/female authored experimental memoirs that could be said to engage in theory (social/political/philosophical)
If anyone knows of any memoirs from this list (or not on the list) that would fit my research I’d be grateful to hear recommendations!


(* Thomas Couser, ‘Memoir: An Introduction’ borrows the term from a Washington Post article by Lorraine Adams)


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