Boom! : Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market /

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Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and dismissed in the popular press...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rak, Julie, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing.
Autobiography.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
autobiography (genre)
Édition > États-Unis.
Autobiographie.
Autobiographies as Topic
Publishers and publishing > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Identifying the Memoir Industry
  • CHAPTER 1 "More Books!": Publishing, Non-fiction, and the Memoir Boom
  • CHAPTER 2 Bookstores, Genre, and Everyday Practices
  • CHAPTER 3 Going Public: Selected Memoirs Produced by Random House and HarperCollins
  • CHAPTER 4 Exceptionally Public: Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis I: The Story of a Childhood and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces
  • CONCLUSION Citizen Selves and the State of the Memoir Boom.

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