Autobiography can situate a thinker without claiming authentic authority
Evidence
It would have to be done naked, without the disguising distance of the third person pronoun. … Only the use of I, lovely and terrifying word, would get me to the place where I needed to go. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 144 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
In the quasi-autobiographical form, every revelation is balanced by a concealment. No writer can produce except out of her own experience, however disguised, and for that reason the dull injunction to “write what you know” is superfluous. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 591 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Autobiographical writing requires disguising experience while drawing entirely from it. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 591; Authenticity in writing requires a personal, direct voice. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 144
Related
- Autobiographical writing requires disguising experience while drawing entirely from it. (similarity 0.93)
- Authenticity in writing requires a personal, direct voice. (similarity 0.88)
- Autobiographical narration can undercut rather than claim authority over a history. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Authenticity in writing requires a personal, direct voice.
#contradicts(0.65) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 144 - Autobiographical writing requires disguising experience while drawing entirely from it.
#complicates(0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 591