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  title info:
    title: Seriality in contemporary American memoir
    sub title: 1957-2007
  name:
    name part: McDaniel-Carder, Nicole Eve.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Stabile, Susan M.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In this dissertation, I examine the practice of what I term serial memoir in the second-half of the twentieth century in American literature, arguing that serial memoir represents an emerging and significant trend in life writing as it illustrates a transition in how a particular generation of writers understands lived experience and its textual representation. During the second-half of the twentieth century, and in tandem with the rapid technological advancements of postmodern and postindustrial culture, I look at the serial authorship and publication of multiple self-reflexive texts and propose that serial memoir presents a challenge to the historically privileged techniques of linear storytelling, narrative closure, and the possibility for autonomous subjectivity in American life writing. As generic boundaries become increasingly fluid, postmodern memoirists are able to be both more innovative and overt about how they have constructed the self at particular moments in time. Following the trend of examining life writing through contemporary theories about culture, narrative, and techniques of self-representation, I engage the serial memoirs of Mary McCarthy, Maya Angelou, Art Spiegelman, and Augusten Burroughs as I suggest that these authors iterate the self as serialized, recursive, genealogically constructed, and material. Finally, the fact that these are well-known memoirists underscores the degree to which serial memoir has become mainstream in American autobiographical writing. Serial memoir emphasizes such issues as temporality and memory, repetition and recursivity, and witnessing and testimony, and as such, my objective in this project is to theorize the practice of serial memoir, a form that has been largely neglected in critical work, as I underscore its significance in relation to twentieth-century American culture. I contend that seriality in contemporary American memoir is a burgeoning and powerful form of self-expression, and that a close examination…
  note: by Nicole Eve McDaniel-Carder.
  note: "Major Subject: English"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-11-11 10:17:47).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-3252
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major English
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-century
  subject:
    topic: Seriality
  subject:
    topic: Serial memoir
  subject:
    topic: Autobiography
  subject:
    topic: Memoir
  subject:
    topic: American
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-3252
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 101129
    record change date: 20151202112923.0
    record identifier: in00002669732