The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of the Memoir

@article{Miller2007TheES,
  title={The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of the Memoir},
  author={Nancy K. Miller},
  journal={PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America},
  year={2007},
  volume={122},
  pages={537 - 548}
}
  • Nancy K. Miller
  • Published 1 March 2007
  • History
  • PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
So, I'm just like everybody else. I go to the bookstore. I pick out a book I love. If it says memoir, I know that—that maybe the names and dates and times have been compressed, because that' what a memoir is. —Oprah Winfrey on Larry King Live, 11 January 2006 I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require. I altered events all the way through the book. —James Frey, New York Times, 2 February 2006 Sometimes the facts… 
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