LEADER 03132oam 22005534a 450 001 9910157445603321 005 20190902100711.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000983931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773739 035 $a(OCoLC)967342795 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53761 035 $a(Perlego)4386040 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000983931 100 $a20160407h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Autobiography after 9/11 /$fMegan Brown 210 1$aMadison, Wisconsin :$cThe University of Wisconsin Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (173 pages) 225 1 $aWisconsin studies in autobiography 311 08$a9780299310301 311 08$a0299310302 311 08$a9780299310332 311 08$a0299310337 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "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. 330 $aIn the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, American memoirists have wrestled with a wide range of anxieties in their books. They cope with financial crises, encounter difference, or confront norms of identity. Megan Brown contends that such best sellers as Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, and Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell teach readers how to navigate a confusing, changing world. This lively and theoretically grounded book analyzes twenty-first-century memoirs from Three Cups of Tea to Fun Home, emphasizing the ways in which they reinforce and circulate ideologies, becoming guides or models for living. Brown expands her inquiry beyond books to the autobiographical narratives in reality television and political speeches. She offers a persuasive explanation for the memoir boom: the genre as a response to an era of uncertainty and struggle. 410 0$aWisconsin studies in autobiography. 606 $aBiography as a literary form 606 $aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism$y21st century 606 $aAutobiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 615 0$aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a810.9/492 700 $aBrown$b Megan$c(Professor of English),$01246324 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910157445603321 996 $aAmerican Autobiography after 9$92889891 997 $aUNINA