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The article reviews the book "Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa: A Memoir," by Ufrieda Ho.

A review of the book "Paper Sons: A Memoir," by Dickson Lam, is presented.

A review of the book "Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers: A Memoir," by Scott Weiland with David Ritz is presented.

A Filipino-American writer's debut memoir about how she overcame a personal history fraught with racism, sexual trauma, mental illness, and cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Paper Sons and Daughters," by Ufrieda Ho.

The article reviews the book "Paper Dollhouse: A Memoir," by Lisa M. Masterson.

The article reviews the book "Walking Papers: The Accident That Changed My Life, and the Business That Got Me Back on My Feet," by Francesco Clark.

The article reviews the book "Walking Papers: Small Steps to a New Life," by Francesco Clark.

Reviews the book `Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found,' by Wayson Choy.

In her Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (1989), Françoise Lionnet identifies the life writing of women of color as the reflection of their heterogeneous differences and theorizes female autobiographical narratives as métissage. Métissage, nearly untranslatable, meaning “braiding,” views autobiography as an engagement of the author with history, myth, and cultures, and defines it as a braid of multiple voices and disparate forms. In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), Maxine Hong Kingston combines numerous voices into the (auto)biographical “I” as well as various forms in the narrative to express her identity as comprising manifold, different elements. In her life writing, she neither follows the unique self-representation propagated by male writers nor validates the inner personal tradition of women. Instead, breaking the fixities of thought and expression, she juxtaposes the historical with the mythical, the biographical with the autobiographical to form a language of resistance and solidarity. The present paper argues that by articulating her identity as a braid of differences, constructing self as a braid of multiple voices, and making her narrative a braid of multiple genres and traditions Kingston enacts her life writing as a politics of métissage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A memoir provides a special seat at events over the last 50 years, a celebration of print journalism, and a lament for its sad state today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Graphic memoir. 14-adult) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A former journalist's memoir serves as a call to reinvigorate investigative reporting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]