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Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women's Memoir

Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women's Memoir

Ellerby, Janet

Hardcover

Series: Writing American Women

Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0815628862
ISBN13: 9780815628866
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 2001
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Maintaining that the memoir requires a more personal relationship with its readers and critics, Janet Mason Ellerby calls for intimate readings. She begins this work with her own memoir, narrating a long-held secret-her pregnancy at age sixteen, her life in the Florence Crittendon Home for Unwed Mothers, and the birth and adoption of her first daughter. She goes on to tell about the aftermath of this pivotal time in and the painful consequences of keeping a secret.

Included are detailed analyses of more than a dozen contemporary memoirs by American women, all of which share a common purpose: the disclosure of secrets. Ellerby describes the costs of this secrecy and explores the possibilities of breaking intractable codes of silence. It is a study that is germane to the intellectual and e otional

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