Carolyne Van Der Meer
Carolyne Van Der Meer is a journalist, PR professional and university lecturer whose first book, Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
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Carolyne Van Der Meer
Let Me Tell You My Life
One Canadian publisher focuses on “life writing” as a serious academic genre July–August 2006
It is a genre that has been around as long as writing itself, but now it has a name. Life writing—which can encompass diaries, journals, personal papers, memoirs and full-blown autobiographies—has become, in recent years, increasingly interesting to both the reading public and to academics who study literature. And because of its focus on stories that are supposed to be “true,” it plays very compellingly into the postmodern confusions of contemporary…