56 min
The Memoir Industrial Complex (2023 Bendigo Writers Festival) Literary La Trobe
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Memoir has become one of the most popular genres of the literary marketplace, competing with Biography and Autobiography as forms of life writing. Why is memoir so powerful? Why does it appear to speak to the present moment in ways that other categories of non-fiction don’t? How much of a life do you need to have lived to write a memoir? What are the ethics of writing about your own life (and the lives of your family, friends and lovers) without the accountability of footnotes? Here to discuss the politics and popularity of memoir are three recent practitioners of the artform.
Catherine Deveny (True North, Black Inc)
Shannon Burns (Childhood, Text)
Akuch Anyieth (Unknown, Text),
Chair: Dr Yves Rees, (History, La Trobe University)
Recorded at the Bendigo Writers Festival on 6th May, 2023
Memoir has become one of the most popular genres of the literary marketplace, competing with Biography and Autobiography as forms of life writing. Why is memoir so powerful? Why does it appear to speak to the present moment in ways that other categories of non-fiction don’t? How much of a life do you need to have lived to write a memoir? What are the ethics of writing about your own life (and the lives of your family, friends and lovers) without the accountability of footnotes? Here to discuss the politics and popularity of memoir are three recent practitioners of the artform.
Catherine Deveny (True North, Black Inc)
Shannon Burns (Childhood, Text)
Akuch Anyieth (Unknown, Text),
Chair: Dr Yves Rees, (History, La Trobe University)
Recorded at the Bendigo Writers Festival on 6th May, 2023
56 min