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Index
Cover Page Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction I. The World Is What It Is The Search for Identity: A Stranger’s Journey The Idealized Portrait and the Task of the Writer Writing and Reading Race: Jonathan Franzen, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Shawn Wong Existential Threats: ZZ Packer’s “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” and Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World The Student of Color in the Typical MFA Program Writing Teachers—or David Foster Wallace versus James Baldwin On Race and Craft: Tradition and the Individual Talent Revisited II. Story in Fiction Storytellers: Myths and the Timeless Discovering Story Junot Díaz’s “Ysrael”: Voice and Story The Storyteller as Sadist (or Zuckerman’s Complaint) Pride Cometh before the Fall: Flannery O’Connor and ZZ Packer Irreconcilable Conflicts, Lies, and Character Destroying the Imago of the Protagonist: Sherman Alexie’s “Class” The A-B-C of Multiple Story Lines: Junot Díaz’s “Fiesta” The Four Questions Concerning the Narrator: From Conrad’s Marlow to Díaz’s Yunior III. Narrative and Identity in Memoir The Four Questions of the Narrator in Memoir: Marguerite Duras’s The Lover and Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club The Past and Present Self in Memoir: Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior Story and Narrative Structure in Memoir Temporal Narrative and Identity in My Memoirs The Use of the Reflective Voice in Memoir: James Baldwin and Hilton Als The Reliability of the Narrator in Memoir Narrative Drama in Mary Karr’s Cherry and Garrett Hongo’s Volcano On the Line between Memoir and Fiction IV. The Writer’s Story V. S. Naipaul: The Known and the Unknown The Writer and the Hero’s Journey Acknowledgments Appendix: Seven Basic Writing Assignments Assignment 1: Some Questions about Process Assignment 2: Exploring Your Identity Assignment 3: Rewriting a Scene Assignment 4: Using a Timeline to Revise Narrative Structure Assignment 5: Using the Storyteller’s Principles—a Basic Checklist Assignment 6: Write about the Problem Assignment 7: Finishing the Book and the Hero’s Journey Bibliography
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