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Books to Read on Autobiography/Memoir
Books and Articles on Autobiography
Olney, James. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972
Starobinski, Jean, “The Style of Autobiography,” Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical.
ed. James Olney. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980. p. 74
White, Michael and David Epston. Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends. WW Norton & Company: New York. 1990
Malinowski, Bronislaw. “The Role of Myth in Life”. Sacred Narrative. Dundes, Alan, ed., Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
Harjo, Joy. The Spiral of Memory Interviews. Coltelli, Laura, Editor. University of Michigan Press. 1996
Muske, Carol. Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of Self. University of Michigan Press. 1997
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The recording of a life within history also creates us. It is through the telling of stories that we justify our emotions
at any given time. “…the poem of witness must exist—because it is necessary to refresh moral life”
(Muske 24). It is through the act of truth-telling testimony that we find our self, that we find our truths.
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