Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of
expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from
imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and
on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability
often seek to depathologize the conditions that they recount.
Memoirs of parents by their children extend or alter relations
forged initially face to face in the home. At a time when memoir
and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in
unprecedented numbers, this book reminds readers that memoir is not
mainly a "literary" genre or mere entertainment. Similarly, letters
are not merely epiphenomena of our "real lives." Correspondence
does not just serve to communicate; it enacts and sustains human
relationships. Memoir matters, and there's life in letters. All
life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts
on them and the culture in which we live.
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