Tuesday, 13 October 2015

What is Billie Holiday's relationship to truth in her memoir?

I think
that any autobiography has a challenging relationship with truth.  It is a challenge because one
has to speak about a life or narrative from a point of view that seeks to be transcendent, but
is highly contingent.  Truth, the idea of an overwhelming or identifying nature of universal
quality, is a challenging element.  I think that the memoir does a...

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