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There is no stop, there is no interval between dreaming and waking. In this sense, it is possible to say: never, dreamer, can you awake . . . -- Maurice Blanchot
About Me
- Monica
- Studio City, California, United States
- I am a writer, storyteller, and former professor (UCLA, Pepperdine, LMU, Purdue) with expertise in representations of trauma, multi-ethnic literatures, Christianity and Judaism, immigrant narratives, and Critical Theory (I'm a graduate of the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory). I love to create stories. I adore books, wine, traveling, and shoes. I wrote a book called THE MIDRASHIC IMPULSE AND THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY RESPONSE TO TRAUMA and have published pieces in Newsweek, The New Republic, The Jewish Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, and other places.
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3 comments:
This is obviously twisted... do you think it's more or less offensive than fake slave narratives, though, which exist in volumes?
Weird.
Well, I don't really know anything about fake slave narratives--I didn't even realize it was an issue. I guess I would wonder what the intention is, but, still, if you're writing a memoir and it turns out you are lying, I have a problem with that. Why not write fiction? Is that the situation with slave narratives--they were supposed to be memoir and it turned out they weren't?
I suppose HEEB magazine, through this contest, is attempting to critique the growing epidemic of "fake" memoirs, but I think what may be more problematic to me is how they're going about it. It just feels creepy. Then again, I'm not even convinced that this is a real contest.
Yeah, it's obviously crappy... turns out there's a booming fake Native American memoir industry too:
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_04_012649.php
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