Eakin autobiography sample
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Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
Eakin autobiography sample
I thought it might help me write the introduction to a set of autobiographical essays that will soon, knock on wood, be published.
It is, on the one hand, an easy read -- a short book with clean clear sentences. And Eakin is an authority on the topic, having devoted his career to all things autobiography.
And while I learned a few things -- e.g.
Eakin autobiography sample paper
that we "write" autobiography as a continuous everyday experience, we write autobiography to write our future selves, to bury an archival bone that we anticipate digging up in the future, that autobiography must be based in the body -- I was put off by the maleness, the whiteness, and the eurocentricism of the language, form, and analysis.
While there are bows to how his analysis might not carry past first world culture, the bows were meant to bracket this issue. Fair enough, we cannot write about everything and I am