Landslide: a memoir? and ‘From the mouth of babes’: Considering memoir’s validity solely from a child narrator (or, sans adult narrator)

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Landslide: a memoir? and ‘From the mouth of babes’: Considering memoir’s validity solely from a child narrator (or, sans adult narrator)

This PhD thesis serves a dual purpose: a creative excerpt from Landslide, my (debated) ‘memoir’; alongside critical commentary on its specific writing process within the broader contexts of memoir, narratology, and child narration. The memoir is an itinerant coming-of-age journey across continen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kale, Amanda/AMK
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English English
Published:	2025
Subjects:	narrative interest voice in memoir child narrator
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/81263/

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