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In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling a good story—while also telling us true.
"reading each of these superb and provocative essays, readers understand history in the memoir and memoir in the history. What all the writers recognize
is that they and their disciplines all deal with the vagaries of memory and how humans construct meaning in the present through memory, however expressed. a superb book. Highly recommended." —Choice
"reading each of these superb and provocative essays, readers understand history in the memoir and memoir in the history. What all the writers recognize
is that they and their disciplines all deal with the vagaries of memory and how humans construct meaning in the present through memory, however expressed. a superb book. Highly recommended." —Choice
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"The memoir is based on a deceptively simple foundation: Tell what you know. As we learn from these thought-provoking essays, both the telling and the knowing turn out to be far more complicated--and far more interesting--than one might suspect." Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris and At Large and At Small
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"Tell Me True is a fresh and lively exploration of that vexed territory where memoir and history meet, argue, meld and blur, each enriching and complicating the other." Mark Doty, author of Dog Years: A Memoir
"These lively, exceptionally well-written essays provide an insider's view of the art of memoir, engaging the big questions of time and meaning, self and community, that are posed by any life. As they explore the intersection of personal history with the larger story we call history, these writers celebrate memoir's power to testify to the truth of our experience." Paul John Eakin, author of Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
Elaine Tyler May has written several books on twentieth-century American history. Both are regents professors at the University of Minnesota.
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- PublisherBorealis Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0873518152
- ISBN 13 9780873518154
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
- EditorHampl Patricia, Tyler May Elaine
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