Writing Tip: Exploring Cultural and Social Content in Personal Stories
When we read personal stories, itâs because we want to inhabit that writerâs life for awhile in all its complexity – all its messy humanity. This includes wrestling with the big ideas and âismsâ like racism, sexism, and colonialism that unfortunately often come with being human. With memoirs, biographies, and other forms of creative nonfiction, we get the opportunity to artfully explore these things through dialogue and details. We can give life to theories and philosophical questions by attaching a name, face and story. We can express the universal through the personal.
By: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
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