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03231aam a2200469 i 4500 001 C885480E00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160407t20172017wiu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016014712 020 $a 0299310302 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780299310301 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)946277396 040 $a WU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c GZM $d DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS366.A88 $b B77 2017 082 00 $a 810.9/492 $2 23 100 1 $a Brown, Megan $c (Professor of English), $e author. 245 10 $a American autobiography after 9/11 / $c Megan Brown. 264 1 $a Madison, Wisconsin : $b The University of Wisconsin Press, $c [2017] 300 $a x, 155 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Wisconsin studies in autobiography 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Keeping it real: "fraud" memoirs and representations of ethnic authenticity -- Learning to live again: contemporary U.S. memoir as biopolitical self-care guide -- Memoirs of empire: encountering difference in the global marketplace -- Babies, blow jobs, and bombs: the bromoir and/as anxiety -- Selling subjectivity: business memoirs as biopolitical management -- The memoir as provocation: a case for "Me Studies" in undergraduate classes -- Afterword. 520 8 $a In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell teach readers how to navigate a confusing, changing world. This lively and theoretically grounded book analyzes twenty-first-century memoirs from Three Cups of Tea to Fun Home, emphasizing the ways in which they reinforce and circulate ideologies, becoming guides or models for living. Brown expands her inquiry beyond books to the autobiographical narratives in reality television and political speeches. She offers a persuasive explanation for the memoir boom: the genre as a response to an era of uncertainty and struggle. 650 0 $a Autobiography. 650 0 $a American prose literature $x History and criticism $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Authors, American $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Biography as a literary form. 650 7 $a American prose literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807422 650 7 $a Authors, American $x Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821768 650 7 $a Autobiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822597 650 7 $a Biography as a literary form. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832172 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Wisconsin studies in autobiography. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905045418.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229045128.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C885480E00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search