William Kamkwamba's memoir "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" is a remarkable story of determination, innovation, and triumph over adversity. Set in Malawi, the book chronicles Kamkwamba's journey as he overcomes challenges to build a windmill that brings hope and positive change to his community....
Introduction In Shelia Fitzpatrick’s memoir ‘My Fathers Daughter’, the subtleties of the Fitzpatrick family dynamics are quite unusual, and throughout the memoir, they strive to be a “normal” family. We learn about these dynamics through the eyes of Fitzpatrick as she takes the reader through...
Introduction From 2010 onwards in the United Kingdom and the United States, there was a notable surge in the number of new medical memoirs being commissioned and published. The medical memoir rose to generic prominence across this period through a range of key titles including...
Introduction As the results of inevitable social and political changes around the world, various genres in literature come into existence. Literature is used as a tool in order to rearrange the social instabilities; therefore, a new genre of literature can fit into these literary discourses....
“They wouldn’t see me, they would see the slant-eyed face, the Oriental. This is what accounts, in part, for the entire evacuation. You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals”(Wakatsuki Houston 158). After several years of being interned in Manzanar, Jeanne is...
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In Jimmy Santiago Baca's A Place to Stand, he gives a self-portraying memoir of his childhood and time in prison. Baca makes the exploration from a child utilizing savagery to survive the realism of life in prison, to a writer with a feeling of direction...
One question that many ask themselves is that of what true beauty is. The novel Memoirs of a Geisha, written by Arthur Golden, has a strong theme, which reflects on the perception of beauty that recurs throughout the story and that is, beauty cannot be...