Memoir

Makes light of a subject matter that is generally considered taboo—plentiful in the memoirs:

A category or type of literary work

According to Atwan, on what do memoirs rely? (Which can be problematic!)

Postmodern work aims to express:

Roughly, when did postmodernism start?

What did James Frey's memoir bring into focus?

Part of postmodernism is the belief that identity:

According to Robert Atwan, what have readers of memoirs NOT done?

Part of understanding childhood trauma allows us to understand what about our authors?

Finds authors and their manuscripts to produce and publish books.

A form of creative nonfiction; an account of part of a person's life.

What point of view was your memoir?

What defines a "story"?

The analysis and evaluation of works of literature.

What happens with most memories of our lives?

According to Dr. Kahneman, what is complex and needs a complicated viewpoint?

Postmodernists distrust or are concerned with:

In all of our memoirs, our authors did not always have their basic needs met. What is this analytical tool called?

Denies that there are objective, absolute, or moral values.

The experiencing self lives in the present, and the__ keeps score & makes decisions.