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A Full Autobiography covers
an entire life from birth to the present.
There are three good reasons
for
choosing
this traditional form.
- You are writing for yourself to discover the
meaning of your life by setting it down.
- You are writing your life story for your
offspring so that they can know you as a person not just as a parent or
grandparent.
- You are famous, distinguished in your field,
or
infamous. You know people are interested in the story of your entire
life and that a full autobiography by you would be published.
If your goal is publication but you are not
famous, the full
autobiography is probably not your best choice. Examples are:
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A MEMOIR
puts a frame onto life by limiting what is included.
A memoir may be publishable if it focuses on a
topic of
significant popular interest or if it is so well written that it
can be considered literature.
The limiting frame may be determined by a
particular period in
your life, for example, your childhood, your adolescence, or your
fabulous fifties.
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The COMING
OF AGE MEMOIR, restricted to childhood, has become a
distinct literary genre in its own right.
Dorothy Allison's Bastard
Out of Carolina is a somewhat fictionalized coming
of age memoir. You don't need to be "a name" to publish
this literary genre, but the writing has to be superb.
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MEMOIRS OF PLACE
from a multitude of regional voices have become very popular in
contemporary American literature. A memoir's frame may also be
limited by a particulare setting as with:
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The ECOLOGICAL MEMOIR
combines a sense of place with a spiritual theme which dissolves
distinctions between the self and the earth. The American
tradition descends from Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
The new Ecological Memoir carries the sense that there is a place
on the planet which is right for each person and expresses one's
true self. Like Georgia O'Keeffe whose style as a painter was
tied to the New Mexican landscape, some memoirists are
transplants who find their voice only when they find their spot.
Memoirist Terry Tempest Williams, though, realizes she was born
to the land she loves. In Refuge,
an Unnatural History of Family and Place, Tempest
Williams writes that she does not crave travel because she finds
greater depths to explore within Salt Lake City, where her Mormon
family has lived and died for a hundred and fifty years.
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A memoir can also be limited by the author's RELATIONSHIP
WITH AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP. Colette's Sido
is about the author's relationship with her beloved mother.
Simone de Beauvoir's Adieux,
A Farewell to Sartre is about her affair and
friendship with the Existentialist philosopher. Ernest
Hemingway's A
Moveable Feast is restricted by place (Paris),
period (1920's-30's ), and his social relationships with an
interrelated group of American expatriate artists and writers.
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The PORTRAIT
closely resembles a thematic memoir which focuses on a
relationship, except that the portrait emphasizes the subject
rather than the author. In Pattrick O'Higgins' Madame:
An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein,
O'Higgins is present as protégé to the cosmetics queen,
but his
concentration is on Rubinstein's life rather than his own.
Geoffrey Wolff's, The
Duke of Deception, is simultaneously a coming of age
memoir and a portrait of his father, a con artist par excellence.
Depending on popular interest in your subject or your ability to
tell the story of a fascinating character, portraits may be
publishable.
Chip Jacobs' book, Wheeler-Dealer: The Rip-Roaring Adventures
of my Uncle Gordon, a Quadriplegic in HOLLYWOOD is an
example of a Portrait Memoir. Chip's book is a biography
of his outrageous Uncle Gordon and journalist Jacobs' unearthing of
family secrets despite his mother's opposition.
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In addition, memoirs may be limited by A
PARTICULAR THEME. There are as many
possible thematic topics for narrative memoirs as for novels, and
new thematic memoirs bear close resemblance to contemporary
novels.
Catana Tully's book, Split at the Root, is an
examples of a Thematic Memoir. Her book explores the theme of cross
cultural adoption. It is also an example of the most difficult
type of memoir writing to pull off, for it uses the "transparency"
technique that interweaves several story lines into one. Tully's
search for the secret of her "private adoption" forms the frame of a
detective story upon which two other story lines are woven.
Some thematic areas have a tradition of their
own:
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VOCATIONAL and OCCUPATIONAL
memoirs are
among the oldest types of thematic memoir. The vocational memoir
may cover the subject's entire life, but is limited to those
parts which relate the recognition and fulfillment of a
particular "calling."
Examples include:
Nurses, oil rig operators, hookers, and Special
Education
teachers have published OCCUPATIONAL MEMOIRS, as
have many others whose line of work is unusual or whose approach
is fresh.
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In PHILOSOPHIC MEMOIRS
a world view is demonstrated through the writer's own story.
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The RELIGIOUS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY is used as a means of founding or
promoting a particular faith. The
Bible itself could be considered a collection of
religious autobiographies. Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography
of a Yogi also fulfills the didactic function of
most religious memoirs.
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A NEW SPIRITUAL
AUTOBIOGRAPHY has also emerged which is written as
self discovery rather than edification, each person finding a
different spiritual myth or meaning, which cannot be a model for
anyone else except as the demonstration of process. The spiritual
journey turns out to be the most individual dimension of a life.
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Another traditional theme common to thematic
memoirs is ADVENTURE, as in THRILLING
MEMOIRS, WAR STORIES and NEAR DEATH
encounters. The Thrilling Memoir requires the dramatic structure
of a struggle and a physical crisis, climax and resolution. While
many such stories are authentic, be aware that those which appear
in male appeal Soldier of Fortune magazines and female appeal
True Confession periodicals are not real memoirs at all, but
fictional pieces written in the first person, or "pseudo
memoirs."
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The HISTORICAL MEMOIR
is the one form of thematic autobiographic writing in which the
importance of factual accuracy and chronology supersedes the
creative imperatives of inner truth. Heavily influenced by
journalism and reportage, historical memoirs are often
authenticated by quotes from newspapers, letters and other
verifiable, external records. The historical memoir is written
not only to tell the subject's own story, but also to document
the story of his or her times. Yet even with the most conscious
commitment to objectivity the historical memoir is really a
settling of accounts, a selective statement of how the author
wishes to be remembered in history. Examples include:
It is possible for people who are not architects
of history to
publish historical memoirs if they have been close observers of
the events of their times, for example Holocaust survivors or
Vietnam vets, although the market is now glutted with these. It
is also possible to write historical memoir as New Autobiography
using fictional devices. Melisssa Fay Greene's first hand
historic account of racial changes in the South, Praying
for Sheetrock, focuses on a few ordinary citizens in
a small town and reads like a novel.
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DEALING WITH ADVERSITY
is in some ways the theme of all narrative autobiography, but
there is a particularly rich tradition about struggles with a
particular medical or physical malady, such as blindness, cancer,
or paralysis. Originally this type nearly always took the form of
the INSPIRATIONAL, a struggle against odds in
which the courage of the subject brings about a triumph, at least
of spirit, in the end.
More recently, a new LITERATURE OF
ADVERSITY has
evolved which does not depend upon the "final triumph,"
but which derives its value from the depth and frankness of its
discussion. Nancy Mairs, an author who has multiple sclerosis and
has written of it in several memoirs, said in an interview that
the cliched story of overcoming illness does a disservice to
people with disabilities It sets up the belief that if one just
wants to get up and walk badly enough they should be able to.
This message does "a real injustice to people with
disabilities and to the general population in making them not
experience genuine human suffering and loss and discovering the
dimensions of those experiences that are transcendent."
Examples include:
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PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLNESS
is another publishable adversity theme in New Autobiography. I
Never Promised You a Rose Garden offers a firsthand
view of schizophrenia, Barbara Gordon's I'm
Dancing as Fast as I Can dramatizes the horror of
one woman's addiction to tranquilizers, William Styron's Darkness
Visible recounts his bout with
suicidal depression, Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac
Nation: A Memoir also explores that illness, and
Donna Williams' extraordinary autobiography Nobody,
Nowhere allows us inside the mind of the autistic
child for the first time, contributing to the understanding of
autism as no outside psychological study ever could.
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The theme of the INDIVIDUAL
IN OPPOSITION TO SOCIETY, pervasive in the American
novel,, also fuels a broad range of memoirs, including a rich
body of gay and lesbian coming out stories, the autobiographic
works of Beat poets such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack
Kerouac, and a burgeoning, diverse literature which explores
social themes of race, class, sex, ethnic or age discrimination.
Recently, Mark Matousek's Sex
Death Enlightenment: A True Story combined the
bravado of this type of memoir -- memorializing his decadent life
as a male hustler and member of Andy Warhol's Factory -- with the
redemptive ending of the confession.
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The CONFESSION:
The spiritual confession begun by Augustine follows a clear plan:
the recounting of one's sins followed by the mending of one's
ways. The key is to detail for a reader's enjoyment all your
naughtiness (this should be the bulk of the work) and then tell
why you aren't that way anymore. There are many secular examples
of the form, among them:
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The SPIRITUAL QUEST,
unlike the spiritual Confession, does not depend upon the sinner
redeemed formula. It has the episodic structure of a journey in
search of spiritual perfection. John Bunyan's The
Pilgrim's Progress is the earliest example. Carlos
Casteneda's The
Teachings of Don Juan could be considered a pop
example of the spiritual quest.
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Reminiscence,
Reflection, Meditation and Reverie proceed by free
association rather than chronology. They tend to be the least
commercial type of autobiographic writing because they don't
offer the reader a story and characters to hold onto. Carl Jung's
autobiography Memories,
Dreams, Reflections is a reverie that
concentrates on the inner life of the subconscious rather than
the outer life of events. His work demonstrates that within the
inner world one can find specific images and details -- necessary
to keep such writing from becoming too abstract.
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The PERSONAL ESSAY
is undergoing a contemporary renaissance, nurtured by magazines
such as Harper's, The New Yorker, and the
"His" and "Hers" sections of the New York
Times Magazine. In his introduction the fine
anthology he edited, The
Art of the Personal Essay, Phillip
Lopate traces the form back to Seneca and Plutarch, but
attributes the source of its democratic informality to Michel de
Montaigne, who wrote, "Every man has within himself the
entire human condition."
The new personal essay is nothing like those
little torture
chambers of rhetoric and logical argument you had to write in
English I. Freed by public indifference, it has evolved into a
meditation which explores how individual minds work, how they
move by free association through thoughts and feelings to small,
often subtle, realizations. Structurally it is the most accepting
form, allowing digressions, contradictions, mental journeys and
apparent shapelessness. Like poetry, it depends less on story
than on motif and asks for precision and economy of language,
though in a conversational, intimate style. Unlike autobiographic
narrative, the personal essay need not have the dramatic shape of
a story. According to Lopate, it is structured by the progression
toward personal truth, "the 'plot' of a personal essay, its
drama, its suspense, consists in watching how far the essayist
can drop past his or her psychic defenses toward deeper levels of
honesty."
An important key in writing the personal essay is
to choose a
very narrow frame, a limited, small subject which you enlarge by
exploring in detail and depth. The personal essay is a tiny
aspect of a life under a microscope. Outstanding examples of
collections of personal essays are:
The personal essay is short enough to be
manageable even by
those with limited time, and it can be published in a large
variety of periodicals, Those who distinguish themselves by
consistently publishing essays in respected periodicals may
overcome publishers' reluctance to publish books of collected
essays.
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The TRAVELOGUE, the
memoir of a journey can be a particularly entertaining form of
autobiographic writing if it doesn't fall into simply describing
"what you saw" in dutiful chronological order. The form
is at least as old as Margery Kemp's thirteenth century "as
told to" account of her travels through England as an
eccentric single older woman. In our time Paul Theroux' The
Great Railway Bazaar, The
Old Patagonian Express and The
Iron Rooster and Peter Mayle's A
Year In Provence demonstrate that it is not so much
the journey or place, but the character, feelings and reactions
of the author which hold our interest. Somewhat irascible
narrators seem to write the most compelling travel memoirs,
probably because their exacting personalities put them into
constant conflict with their foreign surroundings.
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The AUTOBIOGRAPHIC
SHORT STORY as it appears in magazines is often
indistinguishable from first person short fiction. In writing an
autobiographic short story you take a single, small turning point
in your life as the epiphany of the story. Sometimes episodes in
your life may suggest a particular literary style or genre, so
there can be autobiographic ghost stories, autobiographic
comedies of manners, autobiographic magic realism. Ray Bradbury's
collection of short stories about his charmed childhood, Dandelion
Wine, although memoir, reads like his science
fiction.
Autobiographic short stories can be written
piecemeal,
published individually in different magazines, and later
collected in a book. Nearly all the stories in Pam Houston's Cowboys
are my Weakness were first published in women's or
literary magazines as short fiction. Yet assembled they can be
read as the memoir of a woman who keeps finding herself in
relationships with guys "whose favorite song is
Desperado." An earlier example of this appealing 'two for
one' form is Christopher Isherwood's Berl
in Stories. Each of his autobiographic stories is
complete in itself, and together they make a coherent memoir of
Isherwood's life in Berlin in the late 1930's.
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The AUTOBIOGRAPHIC NOVEL
differs from the thematic memoir in the degree to which it
fictionalizes the author's experiences. Pat Conroy wrote two
autobiographic novels, The
Great Santini and The
Prince of Tides, about a boy's childhood dominated
by a father who, like his own, was overbearing and abusive. In
both books names and identifying details are fictionalized, but
the characters have the problems of Conroy's actual family
members. In The Great Santini the father is a
Marine lieutenant, in The Prince of Tides he is
a shrimper, but in both novels he instills the same fear in his
sons.
The autobiographic novel is a solution for those
who have a
whopper of a story to tell, but cannot for various reasons
publish it as a memoir. Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel The
Bell Jar about a teenage girl's nervous breakdown,
closely follows the events of Plath's early life.
In calling her work a novel, even an
autobiographic novel, an
author distances herself from the subject matter and tells the
reader, "Do not ask me about this. I have given you what
matters in this story in the most beautiful language I can find.
In making it a novel I have assumed a boundary of protection for
myself and others. Do not cross it; do not pry." In calling
her work a novel, the author is also making a claim to its
artistic merit. In some cases it is easier to publish an
autobiographic novel than a memoir, but the writing must be of
higher literary quality than is required of most memoirs.
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The COMPLAINT
differs from autobiographic protest literature because the author
does not find his or her oppression in social causes but in the
misdeeds of a particular person. It is a very publishable form of
Portrait if the author's subject is famous. Examples include:
It is a natural fantasy to imagine getting even
with someone
by exposing them in your memoirs, and revenge can fuel great
writing, but for the most part complaints suffer like bad novels
from one dimensional characterizations and an overly simplified
Manichean vision of the world.
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The CONCEPTUAL
AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a twentieth century innovation,
akin to New Journalism, where the author goes out and does
something outrageous or puts himself into an unusual situation in
order to write about the experience. The earliest example may be
George Orwell's Down
and Out in Paris and London where Orwell
intentionally allowed himself to fall into miserable poverty so
he could report how men live on the bottom rung of society. In
order to experience racial discrimination first hand and write Black
Like Me, John Howard Griffin dyed his white skin to
make himself appear to be an African-American. Cameron Crowe
pretended to be a high school student to write Fast
Times at Ridgemont High. Nancy Weber put an ad in
the Village Voice offering to swap her home, job,
friends and lover with another woman in order to write Life
Swap.
For a writer who is not well-known, conceptual
autobiography
may be the most publishable type if you can come up with a fresh
concept, live through it, and write about it with insight. But
such life experiments can be dangerous, and they are essentially
artificial. Sue Estroff, a social anthropologist, wrote about her
attempt to live among the street "crazies" in Madison,
Wisconsin's flop houses to study their culture. She wrote a
profoundly moving account which demonstrates that how we treat
the mentally ill makes them more crazy, but in the process of
living like them and even taking their medication, she nearly
lost her own sanity.
All the best writers who have tried to become
someone else in
order to write about it have learned that you cannot really know
another's life experience. You can gain insights, you can observe
other people's reactions to how you appear, but still you are
yourself assuming a costume and a role.
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Autobiographic WORKS OF HUMOR
range from vanilla souffles to black bitters. Erma Bombeck wrote
autobiographic personal essays and books about ridiculousness of
domestic life such as The
Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank and If
Life is a Bowl of Cherries what am I doing in the Pits?.
S.J. Perelman showed the humor in cultural misunderstandings in The
Swiss Family Perelman, about his family's temporary
relocation to Thailand in the 1940's. Art Buchwald mixes his
practiced wit with painful childhood memories in Leaving
Home. Comedian Rick Reynolds developed a successful
one man show, "Only the Truth is Funny," based on the
professional and personal failures of his life. It was when he
gave up, moved to a small town and wrote only the truth to please
himself that he came up with a work that brought him success.
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FAMILY
HISTORY or the FAMILY SAGA is often
considered a form of autobiographic narrative because it is one
person's exploration of self-identity, but it is not
"I" writing about "I." I have noticed that
writers who try to record the stories of ancestors along with
their own life often end up with two works instead of one. Family
histories can fall into the dutiful and often laborious tracing
of the family tree and the telling of disconnected anecdotes,
unless enlivened with fictional devices and the an ever-present
narrator's voice.
If you wish to publish a work about ancestors,
you
will have
to write it like a novel with all the devices and drama of
fiction. The most famous published example is Alex Haley's Roots.
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DRAMAS and FILM
SCRIPTS can be autobiographic works. Eugene
O'Neill's and Tennessee Williams' powerful dramas are based on
their experiences, and solo showcases based on a writer/actor's
own life are currently the rage. Dennis Palumbo wrote the script
of the film My
Favorite Year about his initiation into the
television business, but autobiographic film scripts are rare. To
fit your story into the structural requirements of a
multi-character play or film demands a distance and objectivity
about your material that few autobiographic writers have or
should have. However, it you chose to try these forms, you'll
find the story structure guidelines in the previous chapters
indespensible.
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OTHER
FORMS
of autobiographic
writing
include some literature for children or young adults, personal
newspaper or magazine columns such as those by Anna Quinlen,
Ellen Goodman, and Ellen Snortland and personal magazine articles
such as those in Reader's Digest and Reminisce magazine.
ORIGINAL FORMS AND HYBRIDS. The
most exciting
examples of New Autobiography are combinations of forms which
have never been tried before. Laura Esquivel's Like
Water for Chocolate is simultaneously a memoir, a
novel and a cookbook. In Susanna Kaysen's Girl,
Interrupted, about having been committed to a mental
institution, each chapter has qualities of poetry, the personal
essay, and the short story. There are no transitions between
chapters, but altogether the work is like a novel in that it
follows a small group of characters and completes each of their
stories. It also harks back to the historic memoir in that it
includes validating documents, namely photocopies of hospital
forms completed by Kaysen's psychiatrists and nurses. The book's
combination of subjective narrative and clinical documentation
emphasizes its thematic conflict, giving two opposing answers to
the narrator's question - was she or was she not sane? The
impersonal nature of the clinical reports of her mental illness
contradict the human intimacy and sanity of her narrative
writing.
Having
Our Say, a surprise bestseller adapted as a Broadway
play is experimental in form because two sisters in their 80's,
Sarah Delany and Elizabeth Delany, collaborated to write one
memoir. But perhaps the most original form of New Autobiography
to date is Art Spiegelman's Maus:
A Survivor's Tale. It is a comic strip in
which Jews are mice and Nazis are cats, and, at the same time, an
autobiographic exploration of Spiegelman's relationship with his
father, who recalls for his son his terrifying memories of being
a hunted by Nazis.
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In addition to these recognizable types, there
are
some
important American traditions of autobiographic narrative. Within
the AFRICAN-AMERICAN
TRADITION can be found some of our most outstanding
examples of autobiography, memoir and the autobiographical novel.
The tradition begins with slave narratives told to white writers,
but freed African-Americans quickly recognized the need to write
their own stories. Early on their quest for freedom is linked
with their quest for literacy. The critic Robert Stepto traces
the primary African-American archetype of the articulate hero, who
discovers the links between freedom, struggle
and
literacy, to the 1845 Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,
Written by Himself. Other examples are:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN have
created their own
tradition with its own archetypes. Critic Joanne Braxton points
out that articulateness is important for African American female
hero, too, and she identifies two common figures, the sassy
female "trickster" and the "outraged mother"
both of whom rely on invective, impertinence, and ritual
invocation for protection. In contrast to the solitary black male
hero, she participates in a collective wisdom of courage,
ingenuity and love handed down from a beloved female figure,
often her grandmother. In almost all examples of African-American
women's autobiography there is a period of perilous adolescence
in which the heroine becomes aware of gender difference as well
as racial prejudice. Often it is motherhood, no matter how early
or difficult, that opens the pathway to her greater
self-awareness and self-respect.
The African-American tradition of female
autobiographic
writing includes:
I have wondered why it is that in the arena of
American
autobiography African-American women's contribution has been more
outstanding than that of their white sisters. I believe it is
because white women, especially those who were privileged or
middle class, had far more to risk by speaking the truth of their
lives. Until recently they have not been willing to risk that
privilege; now they, too, are becoming fierce with the truth.
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The ASIAN AMERICAN
TRADITION is indebted to the African American tradition
in recognizing the need to own anger in order to find an
authentic voice. But issues of conditioned passivity and
ingrained respect for parents and one's heritage are particular
to the Asian-American tradition. Probably because they have been
in the United States longer, Chinese-Americans have made a
stronger contribution to autobiographic writing than other
Asian-American groups to date.
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The LATINO AMERICAN
TRADITION, like that of other ethnic minorities in the
States, is about finding one's voice, but with a particular
conflict between the narrator's self perceived in Spanish versus
in English. Richard Rodriguez' Hunger
of Memory, the Education of Richard Rodriguez is
a thematic memoir which explores the
conflict between
Spanish as the personal language of home and intimacy versus
English a public language of commerce and achievement. His Days
of Obligation: An Argument With my Mexican Father participates
simultaneously in the Mexican
American
tradition of autobiographic writing and in the tradition of gay
coming out literature. Sandra Cisneros' memoir The
House on Mango Street shows the influence of
Latin American literature on Latino American memoir writing.
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The first generation of JEWISH
AMERICAN autobiographic writers dealt with immigrant
experience and the Holocaust; later generations are dealing with
different aspects of assimilation. Examples include:
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The NATIVE AMERICAN
TRADITION is so different from the Euro-American
tradition of individuation through written memoir, that it stands
in reproachful contrast to the underlying assumptions of this
book. Native Americans have a strong oral tradition of
autobiographic storytelling which conveys the values of the
community and creates continuity between past and future
generations. It is autobiographic in that it tells wisdom learned
from life experience, but most do not have identified authors;
they are the tribe's stories. I've suggested that to find a story
in your life you decide where it begins and ends. From a Native
American perspective, stories have no beginnings or endings. They
are fluid, recycled, and acquire new meaning each time they are
told. They are a sort of Rorschach test where the listener comes
to understand the meaning later through his or her life
experience.
In addition to the oral tradition, there are over
600
published works which are called Native American autobiography,
but over three-quarters of them were written by Caucasian
anthropologists who imposed their own meanings and values on the
lives they recorded. This has established a kind of collaborative
tradition of its own which is quite controversial. Combining both
the native oral tradition and the written collaborative
tradition, Greg Sarris wrote a portrait of his grandmother, Mabel
McKay, Weaving the Dream.
Mabel, a Pomo Indian medicine woman and basket
weaver, could
not understand why her grandson, a professor at UCLA, kept
worrying about finding a theme to tie together all her stories
for his book. "Why would you need to tie them
together?" Mabel asked -- another example of how differently
Native Americans view autobiography.. Sarris says that he never
did succeed in giving his work conventional thematic unity, but
he did, in writing it, succeed in unifying himself. Born Native
American and Filipino on his father's side and white and Jewish
on his mother's, Sarris grew up feeling illegitimate about his
identity until, like his basket weaver grandmother, he was able
to make a whole from the fragments. In order to be true to who he
is Sarris had to create a composite form from at least three
pre-existing traditions. In so doing he also participated in the
evolution of the Native American tradition of autobiographic writing
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