Autobiography bestows itself easil...
Autobiography bestows itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism. As we might say in the States, the right to write our life stories is a natural extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. May we, yet say and write what we please when we engage in self-narration? Not necessarily, not unles we are prepared--depending onward the nature of the case--to put up with consequences of considerable gravity. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu makes front-page recents in the New York Times when anthropologist David Stoll accuses her of having
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