Intimate Reading

Focusing on memoirs by American women writers, the author blends autobiography & literary analysis to illuminate the intellectual, cultural, & emotional dynamics of the memoir as a significant movement in contemporary literature.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

Bearing Sorrow

3

(28)

Memory Was the Enemy: Two Family Secrets

31

(12)

Secret Histories of Shame

43

(28)

Living in Plain Sight: Audience and Memoir

71

(31)

``I Would Rather Go Naked'': Narratives of Sexuality

102

(28)

``Our Rite Was Silence'': Narratives of Trauma

130

(24)

``The Other Person's World'': Narratives of Mental Illness

154

(22)

Owning Secrets: Who Can Tell?

176

(16)

The Memoir at Work

192

(21)

Coda: The Traveler

213

(4)

Works Cited

217

(10)

Index

227

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