Abstract
This chapter locates autobiography and memoir within the broad definition and study of identity formation and narrating the nation. The validation of autobiography and memoir is to inscribe identity and project voice, through recourse to selective memory, so that the (re)positioning of the self emerges not only as interrogating the period of becoming but also revealing the fragility and elusiveness of that identity.
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Hove, M.L. (2014). Imagining the Nation: Autobiography, Memoir, History or Fiction in Peter Godwin’s Writings. In: Hove, M., Masemola, K. (eds) Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340337_4
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