Serial Memoir

Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive.

1. Introduction: Archiving American Lives in Serial Memoir 2. Serial Structures, The Archive, and Mary McCarthy's 'Perfect Execution of the Idea' 3. Alternate Archives: Maya Angelou's the Complete Autobiographies or the Seriality of a Life Mosaic 4. 'Too Meta to Live': The Materiality of Seriality From Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' to Meta Maus 5. Augusten Burroughs and Serial Culture 6. Conclusion: 'Veneration of the Trace': Archiving American Lives into the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index