Is it a “true memoir or a fictionalized one” you tell me? This is the main argument in this entire dissertation. Over the past weeks, memoirs have been one of the main areas we have looked at. Thinking of what a memoir is to me, it is a truthful document that provides an authentic voice or tone that is used to put the reader in the same set of minds or physical setting that he/she had experienced. The issue in the dissertation is one that is unique to memoirs. Why you say? Because the issue is the ability to write a memoir that is truthful and accurate. In doing so there have been memoirs that are not true memoirs. “Did they move between fiction and nonfiction restlessly until the true voice of the piece was clear? (truth in memoir, 2013). So how does the author address these issues? In a method that would be able to characterize different forms of memoirs to determine what would be the a “true memoir”. “Different forms of writing not only come from the different people we are at different stages of our lives; they also require different writerly approaches and techniques. Smith and Watson illustrate how these techniques and practices of remembering change, using the observations of leading scholars and theorists” (truth in memoir,2013). So the argument of tension in truth, non-fictional and fictionalized memoirs is still relevant today. Is there a strong argument? No, there is not a strong argument, for example, “Memoir, according to academic and writer, Enza Gandolfo, is an increasingly popular genre that continues to be seen primarily as the individual’s story (truth in memoir, 2013). The goal of a memoir is to share fictionalized data that has impacted an individual or a group of individuals based on a particular time in history. So a “true memoir” can have “truth in tension” and can be a fictionalized one as well. A memoir is a piece of work that is unique to the author that is writing. Every memoir will be different, every memoir will have a different tone, and every memoir will be unique to the person and the audience that is reading the memoir.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Unit 2 - Truth in Memior
Is it a “true memoir or a fictionalized one” you tell me? This is the main argument in this entire dissertation. Over the past weeks, memoirs have been one of the main areas we have looked at. Thinking of what a memoir is to me, it is a truthful document that provides an authentic voice or tone that is used to put the reader in the same set of minds or physical setting that he/she had experienced. The issue in the dissertation is one that is unique to memoirs. Why you say? Because the issue is the ability to write a memoir that is truthful and accurate. In doing so there have been memoirs that are not true memoirs. “Did they move between fiction and nonfiction restlessly until the true voice of the piece was clear? (truth in memoir, 2013). So how does the author address these issues? In a method that would be able to characterize different forms of memoirs to determine what would be the a “true memoir”. “Different forms of writing not only come from the different people we are at different stages of our lives; they also require different writerly approaches and techniques. Smith and Watson illustrate how these techniques and practices of remembering change, using the observations of leading scholars and theorists” (truth in memoir,2013). So the argument of tension in truth, non-fictional and fictionalized memoirs is still relevant today. Is there a strong argument? No, there is not a strong argument, for example, “Memoir, according to academic and writer, Enza Gandolfo, is an increasingly popular genre that continues to be seen primarily as the individual’s story (truth in memoir, 2013). The goal of a memoir is to share fictionalized data that has impacted an individual or a group of individuals based on a particular time in history. So a “true memoir” can have “truth in tension” and can be a fictionalized one as well. A memoir is a piece of work that is unique to the author that is writing. Every memoir will be different, every memoir will have a different tone, and every memoir will be unique to the person and the audience that is reading the memoir.
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