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Breaking Rules: The consequences of Self-Narration
Do you agree with the thought that we have a right to write about our life?
How do you feel about the deception in the story about the holocaust?
Did Harrison have a right to write about her affair with her father?
Oliver Sacks and Daniel Schacter - "Mr. Thompson"
Kathryn Harrison
"The Kiss"
Wilkomirski's "Fragments"
-1997
-a memoir about her afair with her father
- junior in college, who was a liaison for her father
problem:
- victimized her two children, not herself
- people saw it as too shocking
main points used against her case:
- the memoirists responsibile for her family
-a man suffering from Korsavok Syndrome
-limits his ability to tell his story in full truthfulness
problem?
- is their a remaining person there?
- has he been desouled by the disease?
Final Point:
- He is not diciplined for his disease and his lack of truthfullness
- this exemplifies the stakes of telling the truth
- story portrays a child's life during the Holocaust
problems:
- was he too young to really witness what he said happened?
ex. watching his fathers execution
in the end... it was found out that he lied.
Her real life:
- spent war years in swiss children's home until she was adpted
main point:
- Menchu came out unscathed after lying but Wilkomirski did not
questions about Harrisons case?
- should she of written it at all?
- did she not respect her privacy?
- why would she tell it?
Final explanation
-narrative identification is central to his investigation
- we have a right to write about our life
EX. Rachel's and Ruddicks
Discussion Questions
Introduction
Authors thoughts on this
two features in this case:
- impaired self narration
- loss of affect
- thesis: I am arguing that the rules for identity narrative function simultaneoulsy as rules for identity, and the key to this hypothesis is the concept of narrative identity, which assumes that narrative is not merely a literary form but a mode of phenomenoligcal and conintive sled experience.
- most important rule: Telling the book
-Holds itself easily to the ideology
-We are all judged when we tell autobiographical stories
ex. Rigoberta Menchu is accused by David Stoll
3 primary transgressions for which self-narrators have been called into:
- misrepresentation of biographical
- infringement of the right to privacy
- Failure to display normative models od personhood
Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatamala
- about injustices and atrocities inflicted by the Mayan government
- has eye witness testimonies
problems:
was it limited to what she saw with her own eyes?
who is the person telling the narrative?
Important points:
- she was away for many of the important points in the book as she was as school
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