- Title
- Revealing what it means to be human: The nature of literary docu-memoir
- Creator
- Parnell, Jo
- Relation
- New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives p. 63-81
- Relation
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/new-and-experimental-approaches-to-writing-lives-9781352007183/
- Publisher
- Red Globe Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Pioneered by the British writer Tony Parker, literary docu-memoir is a rare form of creative non-fiction as life-writing⏤a mix of fact, lyric, and story. It involves the writer interviewing and audiotaping ordinary people for their unusual experiences and their thoughts and feelings as the resource material for a literary production. In everyday conversation, people use a language of their own to make sense of their experiences for themselves and the person or people they are talking to. Literary docu-memoir brings out a deeper level of meaning in the speech and reflections of the subjects, as elicited by the literary docu-memoirist. In this chapter, I tease out the key aspects of literary docu-memoir2 and discuss Parker's innovation. I take a brieflook at The Seamstress: a memoir of survival (1999) by Sara Tuvel Bernstein et al. and offer my own work, See Saw Margery Daw (2012), for consideration as a new way to write a work of literary docu-memoir.
- Subject
- literary docu-memoir; Tony Parker; creative non-fiction; life-writing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460489
- Identifier
- uon:45978
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781352007213
- Language
- eng
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