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This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a range of different nonfiction forms - including the personal essay and memoir - and ethical questions that arise in relation to them, such as truth claims, the confessional mode, counter-narratives. Drawing on the ideas of Bakhtin, Nietzsche and Foucault; examples from creative non-fiction writers such as Strayed and Knausgaard; and the founding principles of the originators of the genre, Seneca, Augustine and Montaigne, George Jensen argues that a limited conception of nonfiction leads to a limited view of its ethics. Writing about the truth in an authentic way is more important than ever before - and essential to this is the creation of the ethical subject.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Making Truth Claims.- Chapter 3: Critiquing Habit, Habitus, and Modernity.- Chapter 4: Fighting Narration.- Chapter 5: Shifting Roles, Mimesis, Sustaining Community.- Chapter 6: Critiquing and Claiming Memory.- Chapter 7: Making Confessions.- Chapter 8: Reflecting on Self as Other.- Chapter 9: Situating Scenes.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
