Memoir: A Narrative Fiction

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Truth is a central subject in philosophy, and it can be closely correlated to literature or reading. In many memoirs, it can be difficult to tell if the author is stating the truth, or stretching the truth. In memoirs or accounts of one’s life, it is usually the latter. Stretching the truth is one way to hook the reader and make the book more engaging, in fact, memoirs or accounts of a person’s life have their own independent truth. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is a perfect example

Nonfiction Nonfiction is the broadest category of literature. Autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, letters, essays, speeches and news articles are just a few of the many types of nonfiction writing. All of these forms of prose concern real, rather than imaginary subjects. Nonfiction writers present information they consider true. Like fiction, nonfiction writing can be creative. Objective At the end of the lesson, you should be able to: 1. Differentiate a nonfiction from short story; 2. Define

to these biases that people bring into reading autobiographies and memoirs, nonfiction is often not seen, even by literary experts, as being literary, despite the fact that life narratives often consist of fascinating stories with equally captivating characters in many similar, if not identical, ways to the ways in which fiction does. By

Red Scarf Girl, a memoir by Ji-Li Jiang, tells the story of her childhood during the Cultural Revolution, only colored by the innocence and naivety of her youth. This honesty, coming with being a memoir as opposed to literary fiction enhances the memoir's authenticity, while its realness, as it wasn't an expository essay, makes the story's message more powerful. As a memoir, Red Scarf Girl comes with the connotation that the events portrayed within the story are factual, that Jiang isn't making

the narrator seem to want from the reader? How does she go about getting what she wants? The meta-truth: metaphorical truth In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater attempts to create a new kind of truth called metaphorical truth: emotional truth explained using metaphors instead of facts. She confuses fact and fiction even though it is a memoir and thus creates a convoluted tale of herself where she may or may not be epileptic. Initially, the readers believe that she uses metaphorical truth

Memoirs are novels that give us a personal insight into the authors life and their story. As readers, our impression is that a personal narrative must be truthful. Despite the readers expectation of truthfulness when approaching the memoir, authors enhance their texts to entertain the audience. Memoirs are perceived to be truthful, the story may be factual, but the author may spread some creative influence into the story to be able to create literary truth. Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about

individual finds fulfillment as part of a larger whole, in the company of complementary and like-minded individuals” (394). Readers and characters are consciously aware of the irrationality. Furthermore, in “Schizophrenic Narrative” by Lee R. Edwards, he views schizophrenia in narratives as purely linguistic and a “locus of both a challenge and fascination” (28). In a suitable manner, readers are incorporating this maddening disorder due to the stylistic mode the authors are using, “by virtue of their

short-story collection. According to her, Munro does not provide her readers with a coherent narrative about her life. Instead of his, the author restricts her scope to a selected life-span and events that she frequently rewrites, standing in the tradition of feminist new biography (see Howell 80f). For this reason, Howell coins some of Munro´s short story as “non-fiction” (81), “memoir” (85) or “literary non-fiction” (93), Howell does not explain what she exactly means by these terms. Even though she admits

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston crafts a fictitious memoir of her girlhood among ghosts. The book’s classification as a memoir incited significant debate, and the authenticity of her representation of Chinese Americanism was contended by Asian American scholars and authors. The Woman Warrior is ingenuitive in its manipulation of the autobiographical genre. Kingston integrates the importance of storytelling in the evolution of her identity and relates her method of exploring self-discovery