As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography

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Autor(a) principal: Mancelos, João de
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/4227
Resumo: When asked to write her autobiography, dancer Isadora Duncan replied: “How can we write the truth about ourselves? Do we even know it?”. Autobiography, the writing of the self, constitutes a difficult genre, and poses several challenges in terms of style and narrative strategies: a) Which moments in the life of an individual should be selected? b) How can one turn public private and intimate experiences?; c) Which techniques belonging to the realm of fictional narrative can be successfully adapted to the art of autobiography? In this paper, I’m interested in debating the main problems that writers, musicians and actors, such as Maya Angelou, Bob Dylan or Michael J. Fox, associate with autobiographical writing. I also analyze a few techniques authors employed to solve or minimize those issues. To do so, I resort to the opinion of autobiographers; to the essays of specialists in creative writing; and to my experience as a teacher and researcher in that field.
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title As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
spellingShingle As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
Mancelos, João de
Autobiography
Fictional narrative
Narrative strategies
Maya Angelou
Bob Dylan
Michael J. Fox
title_short As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
title_full As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
title_fullStr As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
title_full_unstemmed As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
title_sort As I hear my voice calling: issues and matters in autobiography
author Mancelos, João de
author_facet Mancelos, João de
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Autobiography
Fictional narrative
Narrative strategies
Maya Angelou
Bob Dylan
Michael J. Fox
topic Autobiography
Fictional narrative
Narrative strategies
Maya Angelou
Bob Dylan
Michael J. Fox
description When asked to write her autobiography, dancer Isadora Duncan replied: “How can we write the truth about ourselves? Do we even know it?”. Autobiography, the writing of the self, constitutes a difficult genre, and poses several challenges in terms of style and narrative strategies: a) Which moments in the life of an individual should be selected? b) How can one turn public private and intimate experiences?; c) Which techniques belonging to the realm of fictional narrative can be successfully adapted to the art of autobiography? In this paper, I’m interested in debating the main problems that writers, musicians and actors, such as Maya Angelou, Bob Dylan or Michael J. Fox, associate with autobiographical writing. I also analyze a few techniques authors employed to solve or minimize those issues. To do so, I resort to the opinion of autobiographers; to the essays of specialists in creative writing; and to my experience as a teacher and researcher in that field.
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