Towards ‘New Memoir’: Ira Wagler’s Ex-Amish Life Narrative Growing Up Amish
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Towards ‘New Memoir’ : Ira Wagler’s Ex-Amish Life Narrative Growing Up Amish. / Völz, Sabrina.
in: American Studies Journal, Jahrgang 63, 6, 25.10.2017.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Konferenzaufsätze in Fachzeitschriften › Forschung › begutachtet
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards ‘New Memoir’
T2 - Ira Wagler’s Ex-Amish Life Narrative Growing Up Amish
AU - Völz, Sabrina
PY - 2017/10/25
Y1 - 2017/10/25
N2 - Memoir writing has become a space of empowerment for those whose voices have been silenced, misrepresented, or not yet understood by the mainstream. Ira Wagler’s New York Times bestseller, Growing Up Amish (2011), can be viewed as a further extension of the body of literature that focuses on oppression, agency, and survival. In this essay I will survey universal literary themes in Wagler’s ex-Amish memoir—such as the father-son and identity conflicts—and situate them in Old Order Amish cultural contexts. I will further explore relevant genre conventions—including Patrick Madden’s theory of ‘new memoir’ from 2014—as well as the narrating I’s voice that reflect the Old Order Amish concept of Gelassenheit and the virtue of humility.
AB - Memoir writing has become a space of empowerment for those whose voices have been silenced, misrepresented, or not yet understood by the mainstream. Ira Wagler’s New York Times bestseller, Growing Up Amish (2011), can be viewed as a further extension of the body of literature that focuses on oppression, agency, and survival. In this essay I will survey universal literary themes in Wagler’s ex-Amish memoir—such as the father-son and identity conflicts—and situate them in Old Order Amish cultural contexts. I will further explore relevant genre conventions—including Patrick Madden’s theory of ‘new memoir’ from 2014—as well as the narrating I’s voice that reflect the Old Order Amish concept of Gelassenheit and the virtue of humility.
KW - North American Studies
KW - Amish
KW - Memoir
KW - Identity Construction
KW - Religious Minority
KW - Ira Wagler
KW - Amish Studies
KW - Ex-Amish
KW - Literature studies
KW - Memoir
KW - Identität
KW - Memoir
KW - Memory
U2 - 10.18422/63-06
DO - 10.18422/63-06
M3 - Conference article in journal
VL - 63
JO - American Studies Journal
JF - American Studies Journal
SN - 1433-5239
M1 - 6
ER -