The Family In Trouble
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Christopher Benfey is Professor Emeritus and the Acting Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mount Holyoke College. A well-regarded scholar of 19th and 20th century American literature, he has authored 5 books including If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years (2019); A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (2009); The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (2003), Degas in New Orleans (1997); and The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992). A family memoir, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay; Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival was published in 2012, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, and Ploughshares. Benfey frequently contributes as a literary and art critic to publications such as The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review.
Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption.
Essays by twenty-five memoirists, including Faith Adiele, Alison Bechdel, Jill Christman, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rigoberto González, Robin Hemley, Dinty W. Moore, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Mimi Schwartz, explore the fraught territory of family history told from one perspective, which, from another angle in the family drama, might appear quite different indeed. In her introduction to this book, Joy Castro, herself a memoirist, explores the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and offers practical strategies for this tricky but necessary subject.
A sustained and eminently readable lesson in the craft of memoir, Family Trouble serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries.
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