DIDASKEIN
Volume 3, Numéro 2, Pages 70-86
2022-12-30
The Story Of A Life As It Is, Not As They Assume It Is: Revisiting The Anticipatory And Healing Powers Of A Memoir
Authors : Bocoum Boubacar .
Abstract
This paper suggests a discussion on memoirs as representing a literary genre that, above all, allows writers to introduce their story according to their part of the truth. The paper also tends to demonstrate that memoirs, in a certain fashion, constitute a means to obstruct the propagation of assumptions about the memoirist’s life. Most importantly, the paper aims to provide evidence for the claims that memoirs are used to serve several functions including (i) handling identity crises, (ii) achieving political goals, and (iii) repelling guilt and getting reconciled. These claims were put to test with respectively the following memoirs: “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, “My First Coup d’Etat: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa”, and “Tuesday’s Child: A Memoir”. With evidence retrieved from the books analysed, it has been shown that memoirs not only have a retroactive effect; they also allow their author to anticipate the future and have an impact on the course of events.
Keywords
Memoir ; Truth ; Identity ; Anticipation ; Guilt ; Reconciliation
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