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Contemporary American Memoirs and Classical Fairy Tales
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Memoirs and fairy tales are usually considered two different forms of storytelling. Memoirs are about real things, whereas fairy tales are products of the imagination. My presentation will examine a number of contemporary autobiographical writings that reproduce a fairy-tale structure or allude to fairy tales. I will show how the two literary genres relate to each other in our contemporary culture.
