Comments on: Two Way Street

By: Just for Emphasis | ErikaDreifus.com

Just for Emphasis | ErikaDreifus.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:39:54 +0000

[...] them.” I was marveling over that wisdom once again when I discovered Philip Graham’s new post offering some equally memorable [...]

By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Real Life: Novel or Memoir?

Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Real Life: Novel or Memoir? — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:18:31 +0000

[...] “Two Way Street”: writer Philip Graham on the fiction writer’s task vs. the nonfiction writer’s [...]

By: Mayumi Shimose Poe

Mayumi Shimose Poe — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:42:10 +0000

I am so incredibly flattered by your acknowledgment and engagement with my sentence, Phil!

By: Philip Graham

Philip Graham — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:08:47 +0000

Thanks, Sue, for those references.

A book you might enjoy, by the Lebanese-American writer Rabih Alameddine, is I, the Divine, a novel in the form of a memoir, which travels inside/outside in original ways.

By: Sue Pearson

Sue Pearson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:24:55 +0000

Patricia Hill Collins (1990, 1998, 2000) applied the term “outsider-within” to demonstrate how a position within a social location, where knowledge but not full power is gained, creates a distinct collective perspective. This phrase is referred to a great deal in a postcolonial and neo-colonial context and for those of us working on the margins/borders.Hereniko and Wilson co-edited a book entitled Inside Out which is an exploration of Literature, Cultural Politics, and Indentity in the New Pacific.

Rosa Braidotti referred to tightropes too, but in reference to women writings and intellectual activity.

…one aspect of contemporary feminist reflection which I find particularly striking is the element of risk that those thinkers introduce into intellectual activity…they reveal remarkable acrobatic talents as they trace mental routes across the void, without falling victim to gravity (Braidotti 1991: 280).

This has all been the ’stuff’ of my thesis (finished), so thought you might find it of interest.

By: Theresa Milstein

Theresa Milstein — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:49:17 +0000

With the amount of blogs that cater to people’s personal lives, this post has relevance. For many, blogging has become a form of memoir, so bloggers should heed this advice as well.