The modern memoir has become a key cultural instrumentality to set up the ideal of assimilation toward neoliberal “wholeness” or “community,” superseding prior American conventional notions of individualism, eccentricity, or sheer orneriness that might no longer be conducive to the new consumerist/capitalist regime (this also implies a new subterranean …
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