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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Memoir and Truth: How the Genre Re-frames Reality

Young, Collen 23 May 2023 (has links)
This paper examines the relationship between memoir and truth, and the implications of that relationship for the rhetorical work that memoirs do. It uses the grounding example of Tara Westover's 2018 memoir Educated and looks at how the recreation of events within her life works both in conjunction with the way she portrays them in the text and juxtaposed against other competing narratives, such as her mother's 2020 memoir Educating. This essay continues the work done by literary theorists such as Phillipe LeJeune, applies the critical framework developed by Katherine Mack and Johnathan Alexander in their article "The Ethic of Memoir," and encourages the reader to consider the ways in which memoirs are rhetorically acting upon the culture at large through their narrative and emotional aspects. / Master of Arts / This paper looks at the relationship between memoir and truth in memoirs. Using rhetoric as its basis, it examines memoirs in their contexts using Tara Westover's 2020 memoir Educated as a case study. It looks at the way that memory is used to build narratives, and more specifically, the way that lived personal experiences are represented in the form of the memoir genre. In considering these ideas, this paper explores questions of objective "truth" and how lived experiences can be affected by internal emotional narrative, and by extension, how that emotional narrative is depicted in memoir.
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”Det finns en hel värld där ute, Tara.” : en analys av dekonversion i boken Allt jag fått lära mig

Berglund, Astrid January 2023 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to analyze deconversion and its narrative in Tara Westover’s autobiography Educated. The study aimed to answer three key questions: What does Westover’s path to deconversion look like in Educated? How can Westover’s deconversion be interpreted from the perspective of Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh’s (1988) model for exit processes? What type of deconversion story does Educated reflect in light of Heinz Strieb et al. (2009) theory about deconversion stories? The material has been analyzed through qualitative content analysis and qualitative narrative analysis. The findings point to a long and uneven deconversion for Westover. The result suggests that her deconversion started when she left for college and continued until she broke off from her parents and their convictions. Results also show that Westover’s deconversion does not follow the narrative of Ebaughs model for exit processes even though she goes through all the phases of the theory. The narrative in Westover’s story is the most comparable to Streib et al.’s deconversion stories Pursuit of autonomy and Debarred from paradise, as their characteristics are very similar to those in Westover’s description of her deconversion. / Syftet med föreliggande uppsats var att undersöka hur dekonversion och en dekonversionsberättelse kan se ut med hjälp av Tara Westovers självbiografi Allt jag fått lära mig. Genom boken har studien undersökt tre frågeställningar: Hur ser Westovers väg till dekonversion ut i boken Allt jag fått lära mig? Hur kan Westovers dekonversion förstås utifrån Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaughs (1988) modell för exitprocesser? Vilken typ av dekonversionsberättelse finns i Allt jag får lära mig utifrån Heinz Streib et al:s (2009) teori om dekonversionsberättelser? Med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys och kvalitativ narrativanalys har materialet bearbetats. Dessa valdes eftersom innehållsanalys passar väl till att analysera fenomen i texter och narrativanalys passar för att urskilja en berättelse, i detta fall en dekonversionsberättelse. Därefter analyserades materialet med hjälp av två teoretiska perspektiv, dels Ebaughs (1988) teori om exitprocesser, dels Streib et al:s (2009) teori om dekonversionsberättelser. Resultatet visade att Westovers dekonversion är lång och svår, och börjar när hon flyttar för att studera vid college och pågår fram till att hon bryter kontakten med föräldrarna och deras övertygelser. Resultatet visade också att Westovers dekonversionsprocess inte följer en tydlig kronologi men att hon trots det går igenom de faser som Ebaugh presenterar. Strävan efter autonomi och utesluten ur paradiset är de berättelsetyperna som är mest lik Westovers berättelse, eftersom deras kännetecken går att hitta i Westovers dekonversion. Genom uppsatsen hoppas jag kunna vara med och fylla den lucka som finns i forskningsfältet om självbiografiska böcker med teman som religiositet eller dekonversion.

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