03132oam 22005534a 450 991015744560332120190902100711.0(CKB)3710000000983931(MiAaPQ)EBC4773739(OCoLC)967342795(MdBmJHUP)muse53761(Perlego)4386040(EXLCZ)99371000000098393120160407h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Autobiography after 9/11 /Megan BrownMadison, Wisconsin :The University of Wisconsin Press,2017.©20171 online resource (173 pages)Wisconsin studies in autobiography9780299310301 0299310302 9780299310332 0299310337 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: "we have known who the falling man is all along" -- Keeping It Real, or, "Fraud" Memoirs and Representations of Ethnic Authenticity -- Learning to Live Again: Contemporary U.S. Memoir as Biopolitical Self-Care Guide -- Memoirs of Empire -- 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.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.Wisconsin studies in autobiography.Biography as a literary formAuthors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticism21st centuryAutobiographyElectronic books. Biography as a literary form.Authors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticismAutobiography.810.9/492Brown Megan(Professor of English),1246324MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910157445603321American Autobiography after 92889891UNINA