Family Trouble Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family

Name: Family Trouble Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family
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ISBN: 9780803246928

ISBN-10: 0803246927

ISBN-13: 9780803246928

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joy Castro

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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. At a moment when the memoir has gained enormous cultural currency, 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…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.97" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.748



Introduction: Mapping Hope




Drawing Lines


Chewing Band-Aids: One Memoirist's Take on the Telling of Family Secrets



Sally Could Delete Whatever She Wanted



Case by Case: When It Comes to Family You Still Have to Talk To



At Its Center



The Day I Cried at Starbucks



Memory Lessons



The Part I Can't Tell You




The Right to Speak


What the Little Old Ladies Feel: How I Told My Mother about My Memoir



Truths We Could Live With



Writing the Black Family Home



The Deeper End of the Quarry: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Family Dilemma



Mama's Voices



Living in Someone Else's Closet




Filling the Silence


The True Story



I Might Be Famous



A Spell against Sorrow: Writing My Father In



Things We Don't Talk About



You Can't Burn Everything



Done with Grief: The Memoirist's Illusion




Conversations of Hope


The Seed Book



Calling Back



Like Rain on Dust



The Bad Asian Daughter



Your Mother Should Know



Writing about Family



Gratitude


Source Acknowledgments


Contributors