Autobiographical Memoir

A study on Autobiographical Memoir as a Counter-dialogue to Misrepresentation of Disabled Body was carried by review of different writers books, journals and articles. For this study, four essays namely Carnal Acts , Living with an Unstable Body , Bells and The Unification of Stephen Hawking written by Nancy Mairs, Barbara Rosenblum, Ved Mehta and Mark O Brien respectively were selected. Autobiographical memoir written by writers with disability helps the writer to privilege their self and to acquire an agency was the hypothesis of this study. Writers in memoir come to the experience of writing with a desire to make them heard and use the written voice to formulate the expressions of identity that will complicate and disrupt stereotype about disabled self. The expressive and assertive voice developed throughout the memoir writing claims a certain kind of authenticity, agency and subjectivity at the heart of which is the privileging of the point of view of the disabled narrator. The target groups of this manuscript are researcher, teachers, social workers and the writers.

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Shrijana Pathak has completed Masters of Arts in English Literature from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. She has been participated different national and international forums related to her profession. Her areas of expertise and interest are English literature research and teaching.