The last decades of the twentieth ...

The last decades of the twentieth hundred years witnessed the unprecedented rise in genre of life writing, narratives published primarily in the West (1) unless circulated widely around the globe. This "memoir boom" has certainly occurr in English-speaking countries, from Australia to Jamaica, from England to southern Africa, and in European countries, especially France and Germany. (2) However, there has been a relative resounding noise in personal narratives coming from elsewhere in the world as well. In many global locations, in post-Maoist China and Latin America, in North Africa and the